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Wizard Work, a card game I've developed with @chrisriddell50 for @betonmond, is now available to pre-order. It's a push-your-luck game about recruiting a team of wizards to meet the randomly-generated needs of fairytale clients. cyclingfish.bigcartel.com/pr…
Bottletops and fridge magnets and incomplete chess sets at the ready: Everything is a Game is out in the UK today. Written with @vivschwarz, it's a collection of 63 old and new games playable with things you probably already have in your house somewhere. hachette.co.uk/titles/vivian…
A book I wrote with @vivschwarz is out soon: rules for games that can be played entirely with household objects. A few classic parlour games and a lot of weird invented ones. Everything is a Game. Available on the 18th from wherever you get your books. hachette.co.uk/titles/vivian…
ALT A copy of the book Everything is a Game resting in a cutlery drawer.
Write-up of a word game that I've been playing for a while: think of a word, then think of a way to navigate through all of its letters, where each move can be described by a word that starts with the letter that you're moving from. kevan.org/games/hackronym
My NaNoGenMo entry for 2021: a script to automatically convert Moby-Dick into a choose-your-own-adventure format. "To spit your last breath at thee, turn to page 710." kevan.org/nanogenmo/2021/
Here's a new fifteen-card print-and-play game I've been working on, about finding five- and six-letter words that fit into a randomly-dealt set of constraints. kevan.org/games/shrdlu
Launching a free print-and-play of a game design I've had rattling around for a while: describing a random word in terms of another, secret random word, while a rival team tries to work out what you're talking about. kevan.org/games/keyword
Good to see this: Hide&Seek's Boardgame Remix Kit, which I worked on in 2010, is now available as a free PDF download, for anyone who wants better things to do with an old boardgame right now.
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Board Games To Create And Play, the game design doodle book I've made with @vivschwarz, is available to preorder. Add rules, doodles and household objects to a pad of blank boards to make games about anything. Out October 3rd from @PavilionBooks. pavilionbooks.com/book/board…
Brighton is in the grip of an independent coffee shop intensifier ray, and workmen are felling Victorian lampposts at the West Pier. – at Brighton and Hove, England
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So would it be possible to make a terrifying Prince Rupert's Drop dessert with molten sugar, or would it crystallise differently?
Blocking a draught by putting a key in a door and hanging a scarf from it. This deserves a Babel fish.
So you can play Liar's Dice with banknote serial numbers, but the UK denominations make the stakes a bit high.
@tassosstevens Heads up, I had a URL-and-nothing-else spam from your Yahoo email a couple of hours ago. Has a spammer guessed your password?
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Either a coincidence or the first wild sighting of weather-activated advertising, but an electronic ad on a bin has just made a "snow" pun.
London's skies are an amazing ten-minutes-to-a-side checkerboard of bright sunshine and dark snowclouds today. – at Lambeth, England
At a cinema showing only "No" and "I Wish". Disappointingly little who's-on-first comedy misunderstanding at the box office.