Games
21 postsOnline group games
A list of boardgames, card games, drawing games, trivia, and social deduction games to play remotely with friends during COVID-19.
Read postFive Pirates
The classic five pirates and 100 gold coins puzzle, posted for readers to solve in the comments.
Read postSnakes and Ladders
History of Snakes and Ladders, from the 2nd-century Indian game Moksha-Patamu to its Victorian and Western versions.
Read postInstructions on how to fix your computer, install windows applications on your mac, Hack someones Facebook, and make a million dollars from a World of warcraft clone.
A joke set of universal tech instructions involving a metal fork and your own face.
Read postSettlers of Catan: Tricks and Tactics
Settlers of Catan strategy tips: where to place first settlements, which hexes to claim, and how to build cities faster.
Read postScrew Your Neighbor
Screw Your Neighbor is a card elimination game where players hold one card and try to avoid being stuck with the lowest.
Read postCrokinole
Crokinole, the Ontario-born tabletop flicking game: its 1876 history and the basic rules.
Read postCrazy Eights
Rules for Crazy Eights, the classic shedding card game where 8s are wild and let you change the called suit.
Read postBooray
Rules for Booray, a French-Louisiana trick-taking card game with a five-card draw and ante-and-pot scoring.
Read postLee Krasnow - Puzzle box maker
Lee Krasnow's Barcode Burr puzzle, a six-piece burr whose notches force the pieces to move in a strict binary sequence.
Read postSong at the end of Portal
The ending song from Portal, Valve's black-humour puzzle game, embedded from YouTube.
Read postProving that 3 + 2 = 0
A math paradox that proves 3 + 2 = 0 by quietly dividing both sides of an equation by zero.
Read postCrokinole - Table top curling
Crokinole, the tabletop flicking game from Ontario in 1876, with its history and the 2007 world championship in Tavistock.
Read postCard game - Munchkin - Kill monsters, steal the treasure, and stab your buddy
Review of Steve Jackson's card game Munchkin, where you kill monsters, steal treasure, and race to level 10.
Read postRandom drinking game generator
A small script that pulls rules from a database of card-and-dice drinking games and spits out a random one.
Read postFan works of Mario
A small roundup of dark and weird Mario fan art and flash animations including Communist Mario and Burly Mario.
Read postMore riddles
A second batch of lateral-thinking riddles with answers tucked below the cut.
Read postRiddles
A list of classic riddles saved from around the web, with answers tucked below the cut.
Read postDaily Chess Puzzles
A script that pulls one chess puzzle a day from a database and sends it out by email or RSS.
Read postDesign Competition - Board Game Design Challenge
A Vancouver IGDA board game design contest to build a 2-4 player tabletop game based on Robotron, Joust, or Space Invaders.
Read postJoke, My Grandfathers Death
A short joke about a grandfather who knew the exact day and time of his death because the judge told him.
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