I am always intrigued by would you rather question. When set up well they really push people to question their values and what they truly desire. The problem is that people can often discuss and theorize what they want but as we know from a very large number of studies that what people say they … Read more
Oh man the weekly streak continues and what is this? A follow-up to last weeks post? I got to play Autobahn and there were two items of note. The first, and very obvious issue, was messing up a rule. What follows is me, for some reason, feeling the need to defend my bad rule teaching … Read more
I think that just about any board gamer can agree that rules are hard. Learning games, reading through rule books, and ensuring you don’t miss edge cases is challenging. Even when the rule book is perfectly laid out, has an excellent index, is completely coherent, and leaves nothing open to interpretation, it depends on the … Read more
Before I start, let’s add an aside, you probably can’t tell this (because imaginary people don’t read blogs), but I keep trying to write these longer blog posts with something resembling a cohesive structure and a thesis. Unfortunately, I am horrible at doing that so what I end up with is a bunch of drafts … Read more
All of us have to start gaming somewhere right? We all played CandyLand or Monopoly or Munchkin. Sure some of us may have had Catan or Carcassonne as the first board game we ever played but who of us could truly escape where games started, as children’s games. However, if you are playing with a … Read more