ESPN Anchor Stuart Scott revealed his favorite board games while fielding a question in a recent edition of ESPN’s magazine.
Brad [Chappaqua, N.Y.]
Hi Stuart! You’ve told us about the sports you’ve loved playing. What games do you like to play?
If you’re talking board games, when I was a kid, me and my bro Stephen and our [...]
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Two thousand years ago, the Maccabees hid in caves plotting to overthrow the Greeks in Palestine. To hide the purpose of their meetings, they had a spinning top available. When the Greeks came knocking, they simply pretended that they were only gathered to play a game of dreidel.
Today, political rallies are outlawed in Armenia. So [...]
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According to Techtree, two online services for mediating live strategy games are themselves battling for publicity. Apparently, Turf is the original game but GoCrossCampus is getting more attention from the New York Times. As best I can tell, both implement some variant on the well-known game Risk, dividing college campuses or corporate organizations into territories [...]
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Q-Workshop is running a dice design contest and there are only 30 days left to submit your entries. Q-Workshop is a Polish company that produces unusual engraved dice in elven, runic, nuke, dragon, and Call of Cthulhu sets, among others. Designs for this ubiquitous gaming accessory must cover the range of 4-sided to 20-sided dice. [...]
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In a recent message to regular customers, GMT Games announced that Combat Commander Battle Pack #2: Stalingrad has broken P500 records, generating 669 commitments in the first 2 weeks of its listing. P500 is GMT’s system for preordering games still in development. Because of the stunning demand, GMT is adding Stalingrad, as well as Combat [...]
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Paizo Publishing reports that 10,000 people have downloaded the alpha playtest version 1 of the Pathfinder RPG in the first week of its availability. As we previously reported, Pathfinder is Paizo’s planned vehicle for supporting continued play with the Dungeons & Dragons version 3.5 rules system. Paizo also reports that public comments have already been [...]
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Inventor Spot informs us about a Japanese furniture retailer offering Tetris-inspired chairs. The chair comes in six colors and can be used in a variety of positions.
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According to the Turkish Daily News, Istanbul will hold the “World Chess Championships” - instead of the proposed Iran - since FIDE was unwilling to abide by the restrictions Iran wanted to impose on the event. Namely, that all women wear head scarves, men can’t enter the women’s arena, and Israelis not attend.
One wonders if [...]
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What’s the most popular game in the Nova Scotia Canadian Legion?
Cribbage, according to Nova News Now. Furthermore, the Legion competes every year in the Canadian Cribbage championship.
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21 is a new movie about Blackjack. Specifically, it is the true story a couple of MIT students who figured out a way to beat the house using card counting and mathematics.
The movie is based on the 2003 book “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions” [...]
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