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Table Gype Based on Concept by G.K. Chesterton, H.G. Wells
In his Autobiography, G.K. Chesterton mentions creating the “well-known and widespread national game of Gype” with his friend, H.G. Wells, although the game has never been invented – until now. Over 70 years later, Uncle Chestnut’s Table Gype has been produced by Eternal Revolution as a board game.
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Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem Takes Aeroflot Open Title
Vietnamese teenager Le Quang Liem this past week became the first Asian chess player to win Moscow Aeroflot, the toughest open tournament in the world.
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Trapdoor Checkers Gives An Old Game New Tricks
Trapdoor Checkers is basically what the name says — it’s checkers with trapdoors. The checker board has, aside from the usual black and white squares, four orange and four yellow squares. These specially-colored squares can be manipulated by the players to open into trapdoors, and any piece on those squares suffer a James Bond-like predicament.
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Lego to Market Board Games in U.S.
Danish toymaker Lego Group plans to start selling board games in the United States this summer as it extends its business beyond colorful building blocks. The company will announce 10 board games at the American International Toy Fair, which begins Sunday in New York.
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Hitler Youth Board Game to be Sold at Auction
British children of the time were playing marbles and hidding in air raid shelters.
But for youngsters under the Third Reich, this board game was invented to teach them the tactics of warfare – against a British foe.
The war time amusement, Adlers Luftverteidigungs spiel, which translates as the Eagle Air Defence Game, involves two or more players attacking enemy positions on a geographically illustrated board while defending friendly territory.
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British children of the time were playing marbles and hidding in air raid shelters.
But for youngsters under the Third Reich, this board game was invented to teach them the tactics of warfare – against a British foe.
The war time amusement, Adlers Luftverteidigungs spiel, which translates as the Eagle Air Defence Game, involves two or more players attacking enemy positions on a geographically illustrated board while defending friendly territory.
Days of Wonder for Board Games
We’re in a veritable board game renaissance and the complex decision-making involved combined with the even more fun game play, makes these games truly better than the previous generation. Days of Wonder is one such company answering the call for new and exciting games.
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Board Game App Announced for iPad
GameTable, which is branding itself as the first board and card game app for the iPad, will feature Checkers, Chess, and a virtual deck of cards.
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Pink Ouija Board Riles Some Christians
The children’s sleepover staple — sold by Hasbro since 1967 — now comes in hot pink, an edition released two years ago that gets tweens to call on “spirits” to spell out answers to life’s pressing questions.
It’s designed for young girls ages 8 and older, but some say the mysterious product is a “dangerous spiritual game” that opens up anyone, particularly Christians, to attacks on their soul.
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Norwegian Teen Wins Corus Tournament
All eyes this week were on the Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, which had about everything one could hope for: drama, contention, star players, and great chess.
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Monopoly Goes Round for 75th Anniversary
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Monopoly, Hasbro has decided to give the game an extreme makeover. Dubbed “Monopoly: Revolution,” the new version is what you would expect in a modern board game design but might give some Monopoly purists the heebie jeebies.
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