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Everything in the box is made with a love for classic games and it shows, from the manual, to the player cards, to the fake wear of the box, to the variety of enemies. Kemble's Cascade was my surprise board game discovery of the summer. If you die, you can just insert another quarter and play some more.
• In October 2015, The Economist noted that tabletop games "are booming in the video-game age", focusing on the then-upcoming Spiel 2015 for its news hook:Quote:
Some of the games at Spiel will be aimed at children, but grown-ups are doing most of the buying. There is something for every taste, from Fluxx, a lighthearted card game whose rules change with every card played, to Power Grid, a fiendishly tricky business game featuring aspiring electricity tycoons, to all-day chin-scratchers such as Twilight Imperium, a game of galactic civilisation-building.
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• On Metro, George Lindsay-Watson offers an ill-thought-out list of "11 of the best board games to make into drinking games", which includes this bit of nonsense that makes it clear that G.L.W. has played few, if any, of the games in question:
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Ticket to Ride
As you hop aboard and try to lay your track across the country or continent, take a drink for every carriage you get on the board. Also drink for every route point you earn, although if these hit double digits it may be best to divide by two, old chap.
This would kill you.As you hop aboard and try to lay your track across the country or continent, take a drink for every carriage you get on the board. Also drink for every route point you earn, although if these hit double digits it may be best to divide by two, old chap.
• Using a photograph of Marcel Duchamp's hand-carved chess set from 1917-1918, Scott Kildall and Bryan Cera recreated the pieces, then released 3D files of them in April 2014 on Thingiverse under the name "Readymake: Duchamp Chess Set" — "readymake" being a play off of Duchamp's "readymade" — so that anyone could recreate the set for themselves.
In September 2014, however, the estate of Duchamp sent Kildall and Cera a cease-and-desist letter, despite the chess set being nearly a century old, and therefore not covered by copyright in either the United States or France. Even so, in 2015 Kildall and Cera decided to remove "Readymake" from public availability, instead releasing "Chess with Mustaches", which is the same Duchamp design with a mustache on each piece. (Wink wink.)
Also not available on Thingiverse: Nude playing against Duchamp
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