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Calculords makes me feel like a math genius, and that’s magical
I am not a “math man.”
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Expos are so much better with this deck-building business card game
Your de facto business card is a no-frills presentation of your name and number and Twitter handle, so potential business partners can contact you later on. But if you are a game designer among an expo of game designers, it might be advantageous to flaunt your chops by designing an entire game that
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Dark is the stealthy RPG adventure for, uh, playing cards
Tabletop gaming takes another step toward democratization.
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Why we need more tabletop game stores
Twenty Sided Store in Brooklyn is, if we’re lucky, a harbinger for the future of gaming.
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Boss Monster conjures all the joys of homeownership, including homicidal fury
Domestic as hell.
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Blizzard’s small, interesting, and free Hearthstone is open to the world today
Gather ’round the hearth. Stone.
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Like a real orgy, Clusterfuck is all about group politics
Probably don’t throw this one out at the next office party.
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The Agents is both a card game and torture device
Prepare to make that one friend really uncomfortable.
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How tablets transformed the board game landscape
The die is cast.
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Clusterf*ck is the card game to ménage à trois to
Let’s get this out of the way up front. Clusterfuck is a card game themed around sex. No actual sex is involved, although I’m guessing the rules could easily be adapted for swingers. The idea is to covertly organize a threesome between a trio of players without the other players catching on. If you
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Play the 250-card The Metagame this Sunday in N.Y.C.
This Sunday, if you’re in the N.Y.C. area, we highly recommend that you drop by the Commonwealth Bar, located on 497 Fifth Avenue, for a night of alcohol and friendly debate playing The Metagame. From 7:30 to 10 P.M., game designers Colleen Macklin, John Sharp, and Eric Zimmerman, collectively known
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The first Moby Dick card game is Shadow of the Colossus on the high seas
King Post wants to turn Herman Melville’s timeless tale of the sea and humanity into a rousing fight for your life.