James and Paul delve forward at a breakneck turtle pace in sorting out the particulars of their board game!
- Games
- "The Field Game of Tag" and its variant Everybody's It
- Ro Sham Bo / Rock-Paper-Scissors
- Scotland Yard
- Mysterium
- Battlestar Galactica
- Pandemic
- Sushi Go
- The game of Poker and the act of floppin'
- Chess and Perfect Information Games (Please note that chess is, indeed, the first example at the top of the page.)
- Space Alert
- Arabian Nights - "that thick" refers to the 300-page full-size paper Book of Tales
- Space Team - remember that the ship flies itself
- Three of those games were published in 2008, how strange!
- Mesopotamian Gaming: "Watch the world's oldest board game, the Royal Game of Ur, being played" on boingboing.net
- Drafting Games, a Primer on Board Game Geek
- Slapback
- For reference, I brought up Moby Dick and Don Quixote as a joke that failed to land. Here is the history of the stranger/town dichotomy thing - it's a quote that is often misattributed. Also, we have discovered that when you google the title of literary classics, google auto-adds "movie" to the end of your query. How notable!
- Hero's Journey! We especially talked about the Call to Adventure, which in modern writing pedagogy is often called the Inciting Incident.
- Thanks!
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
- BodyVox
- Theme Music by Gary Grundei
- And to you! Thanks for listening!