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"He'll be worth $50,000 in the end"

A poignant vignette on parenting, marriage, and The Game of Life by Youngna Park

youngna.substack.com/p/eight-vign...

Posted Dec 2, 2024
December 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
"Cards and gambling authority John Scarne claimed to have invented one of the greatest board games of all time. Was he bluffing?"

Blake Eskin on the strange history of Teeko, an abstract game—and also a fantasy of intellectual achievement and community.

www.blakeeskin.com/articles/a-w...
December 2, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Sad to hear that Kory Heath has passed.

Here are the rules to Heath's game Zendo, which (truly!) teaches the players how to become scientists. It is a masterpiece.

(The rules call for Looney Pyramids, but you can play Zendo with anything you have around.)

www.koryheath.com/zendo/
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
A poem about the game of go by Jorge Luis Borges.

The original Spanish, 1978: borgestodoelanio.blogspot.com/2014/06/jorg...

Translation into English by abstract game designer Luis Bolaños Mures, 2024: boardgamegeek.com/thread/33196...
October 12, 2024 at 7:21 PM
People reject "educational" games. But all games teach.

Tom Lehmann (Race for the Galaxy) on a deep moral lesson about luck: Good decisions don't always have good results.

sites.google.com/site/ptlehma...

Feb. 22, 2005
August 12, 2024 at 3:24 PM
When I saw these game boxes at Egghead Software as a kid in the 90s, I had to touch them.

@philsalv.bsky.social on the stunning packaging design of Hock Wah Yeo.

obscuritory.com/essay/incred...

Posted March 21, 2021.
July 16, 2024 at 3:57 PM
The "feelies" included in A Mind Forever Voyaging, an Infocom text adventure critiquing Reagan-era politics. You play as PRISM, a sentient AI simulating the effects of the Plan for Renewed National Purpose.

gallery.guetech.org/amfv/amfv.html

Published 1985.
July 10, 2024 at 2:42 PM