Writer, Dabbler In Things
Ticket To Ride-First Journey is the junior variation of the popular Ticket To Ride game. As in the original, players must make various lengths of train route connections between cities across the U.S. and Canada in order to complete secretly drawn route goals. Coloured cards are collected from a communal draw pile, and when players … Read more
Based on the (excellent) Wild Kratts television show, Race Around The World pits players as some of the show’s characters racing each other through four types of environment. The show is based on real life animal enthusiast brothers Chris and Martin Kratt, and it spins from them somewhere around the world into a related but … Read more
I’ve done a number of contests through the NYC Midnight organization, including short stories and short scripts. Just over an hour ago (midnight NYC time, not coincidentally) we received the assignments for their latest contest: 100-word microfiction stories that are to be completed in twenty-four hours. What the NYC crew does is randomly places the … Read more
A murder was committed in a local manor and a group of psychics has opted to visit the residence on Halloween to make contact with the restless spirit of the deceased in order to divine who killed him where and with what weapon.Let the seance begin… So goes the (here less eloquent) setting opener for … Read more
In Spy Alley, everyone is a randomly determined spy working for one of six countries. Each player knows who they are and what country they work for, but it’s a secret from others. As you roll the die to move your character around the board, you’re trying to buy/collect your own password, disguise, code book … Read more
My daughter came up with a board game today. I can’t say how well thought-out it was before she drew it onto a large art book-sized page–she’s hacked around with “a start-to-finish path with spaces that have effects”-style board games in the past that were clearly thought up and filled in on the fly–but this … Read more
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo seems to be pretty divisive. Either you like it or you don’t. After making a solid go of it and getting pretty deep into the book, I ended up being in the latter category, just from Larsson’s style, which didn’t jibe with me enough that it finally bumped me … Read more
In Labyrinth, each player is a wizard seeking secret treasures in a maze where the hallways and walls are always shifting. The game board is designed with square maze pieces that are adhered to create an open grid pattern where loose modular maze tiles are randomly placed. Some of those tiles (both adhered and loose) … Read more
Tonight’s games were a carbon copy of those played back on Isolation Day 19, and I don’t have much to add beyond a couple of things I noticed: Sushi Go! continues to be a game I really enjoy. Tonight, our daughter was racking up the points with her Dumpling cards. The points for them jump … Read more
When I went to get the snow tires swapped out at the dealership today, I was told that there were already a few people waiting inside, and so for the sixty to ninety minutes it would take to do the swap, it would be best if I… well… went somewhere/anywhere else, is what the maintenance … Read more