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Bottle Imp (2024) Designer: Gunter Cornett Publisher: Grail Games Players: 2-6 Age: 14+ Time: 30 minutes Played with copy provided by publisher A classic of the trick taking-games makes its return! Bottle Imp is back …

Setting up an 1825 game with all the Units has been an arduous task. I hoped to make it a yearly tradition in 2019, but then Covid-19 happened. After that, every attempt has failed somehow. …

Here are short reviews of some games I played at Essen 2024. Master of Rules This is a 2007 game from Susumu Kawasaki (Traders of Osaka, R-Eco) which I had not heard of before. At …

IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS a contrast is sometimes made between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Made famous by Nietzsche, this schema was first used to describe the thought and art of Ancient Greece. On …

“Our native forests are being rapidly depleted through the operation of several factors. Opinions may differ as to the relative importance of these factors, but the undeniable fact remains that the forests are disappearing at …

Suppose you hear a word like Korean tuˈgɯndugɯn and two possible meanings ‘heartbeat’ or ‘gentle movement’. Most people pick the first (as we found in 2016). Or suppose you hear that same word and see …

The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level has been percolating among monetary theorists for over three decades: Eric Leeper being the first to offer a formalization of the idea, with Chris Sims and Michael Woodford …

From time to time, my editor will suggest that I write a column about how to be more productive. It’s a sure way to trigger imposter syndrome because, whether or not I appear productive from …

TL;DR: Probably don’t use disclosure widgets in fieldsets. If you do it anyway, don’t put the trigger in the <legend>. Context With <details> / <summary>, recent support for the popover attribute, and the never-ending belief …

Species in Pieces30 endangered animals, 30 pieces 2015 CSS throw back to the super rad clip-path project from Bryan James, which includes a making of post on Smashing Magazine!

A lovely warm sunny day. Knocked boilers off at noon. Loaded rubbish on trailer. Brushed leaves up off drive and carted them away. Did all the Ts.

When this blog reached its five-year anniversary in 2018, I wrote a summary of the conclusions it had reached so far, and I vaguely thought at the time that, should it run for another five …

In the post How Paris Conquered the Fashion World we learned how Parisian fashion styles traveled the seas. But just what were these styles? The Empire Style Fashion is about volume and its repartition. From …

Having regular pain can be depressing and demoralising, but waking up in the middle of the night in pain, as I did last night, can be even moreso.For some reason my left knee ached severely …

-Black Friday // Cyber Monday- MAKER’S MOB BIGGEST SALE EVER CLICK HERE This project proves that the best laid plans don’t always guarantee success. I did a lot of planning before I started, but still …