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Play-by-Web

I dreamed a game again — Fairytale Adventure

I’ve written here before about playing amazing games in dreams, and waking up, describing them eagerly to T, and realizing that actually they aren’t very good at all. The only one that’s actually been turned into a playable game is Nice One Squirrel (which was actually nothing like that in the dream, and even so […]

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Card games

Type Trumps

Top trumps with typefaces. Silly but brilliant, I shall get this when I’m next feeling self-indulgently frivolous.

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Pervasive

Ludocity

This should be of interest to at least several of you (and the organizers are probably known to some of you too) — a new wiki for what are basically party games. Either ongoing games in the background at a party for other things, or icebreakers, or games that can occupy the whole of a […]

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Verbal games

Game idea — Resistance is Useless

We’re off on hol tomorrow with T’s sister et al, and I was thinking about a game idea to try out on them. I wanted a game for four (or similar number) players with the same sort of vibe as the Mafia game (aka Are You a Werewolf?), ie played out via chatting, and with […]

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Play-by-Web

The Rather Difficult Font Game

Fancy yourself as the font of all knowledge? Then have a go at The Rather Difficult Font Game. See a font sample, say which it is from a choice of four. I got a not-too-impressive 26/34; apparently the average is 24. I’m sure some of you can do better than that! I imagine it would […]

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Tabletop role-playing

If adventurers were more like academic archaeologists

I was amused by the latest from the great Lore Fitzgerald Sjoberg: “Both good and bad news. The good news is that we have discovered an actual Frummosh-dynasty-spiked, poisoned pit trap in the dungeon! The bad news is that Bill’s bodily fluids have tainted the find. I will be adding a stern reprimand to his […]

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Tabletop role-playing

Gone to the great DM in the sky

Goodbye Gary Gygax, it seems. Like most people of my sort of age, he provided my introduction to role-playing. We may have moved onwards and outwards, but we can still thank him for our beginnings. I met him a couple of times at Gamesfairs, when he was still with TSR. Being young and cocky, I […]

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Play-by-Web

Free rice game

If you haven’t already seen this, you might like to give it a go — not just because of the free rice aspect, but because it’s a fun and well-designed game. Get three in a row right and you go up a level — get one wrong and you go down a level. At higher […]

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Board games

Chessboxing

Do you find chess a little staid? Do you find boxing somewhat brutish? Then clearly what you need is chessboxing, in which contestants altenate 4-minute rounds of chess with 2-minute boxing rounds. The contest is decided by: checkmate (chess round), exceeding the time limit (chess round), retirement of an opponent (chess or boxing round), KO […]

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Card games

In Your Dreams — Louis Louis

Last night I dreamed that I was playing a boardgame, invented by my unconscious. This is not unusual (for me, anyway) — what normally happens is you wake up excited by having unwittingly designed a new game, run through it in your head, and realize that actually either it’s rubbish or else it’s based on […]