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Decktet
I’m an unabashed fan of Print and Play versions of both published and unpublished games. Most of these handmade editions get played a couple times and are never touched again, so usually I’m better off spending the money, instead of wasting the time crafting the set. However, I am the happy owner of four commercially…
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Blulu, a Decktet Game, 2011
An arithmetically paired fishing game with the Decktet. In the Eastern Deserts, the jackrabbits are regarded as a pest and a delicacy. Lesser known is that between eating (and being eaten) they while away their time with a simple fishing game. As a fishing game, the goal of the game is to capture cards. Each…
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Divination
Growing up conservative Christian, divination carried an illicit edge. But a Tarot deck is just a normal deck of cards with a fifth all-trump suit. Still spooky? A while back, my daughter and I messed around with a tarot deck to create a variant on War that improves upon the original (the big change was…
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What is a musician?
This post was originally actually a response to a question “What is a musician?” out in the modern blues harmonica forum. I had also posted it in boardgamegeek because this ethos is tangentially related to gaming because I think it is good example of my populist approach to the production of art and why I agree…
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Pepper. Corn!, 2011
A feeding frenzy for two bunnies. Introduction This is a light fishing game of capturing cards off the tableau. After the tableau is cleared, the players add up the values of their captured cards to determine the winner. The game was inspired by my pet rabbit who is by far the most enthusiastic and fastest…