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The Nova Scotia Canadian Legion Plays …

28 Mar

Posted by Yehuda as Card Games

What’s the most popular game in the Nova Scotia Canadian Legion?

Cribbage, according to Nova News Now. Furthermore, the Legion competes every year in the Canadian Cribbage championship.

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The Next Movie About Games: 21

28 Mar

Posted by Yehuda as Card Games

21 is a new movie about Blackjack. Specifically, it is the true story a couple of MIT students who figured out a way to beat the house using card counting and mathematics.

The movie is based on the 2003 book “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions” by Ben Mezrich.

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It’s in the Bag: The Relationships and Sex Game

28 Mar

Posted by Yehuda as Modern Board Games

It’s in the Bag is a new sexual education game aimed at teenagers in Nottingham, UK.

It is being distributed for free to all secondary schools, resource centers and senior youth workers in Nottingham.

More information is available through the Teenage Pregnancy Partnership.

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Trying For the World’s Farthest Dice Toss

28 Mar

Posted by Yehuda as Classic Board Games

Backgammon Masters, an online backgammon site, is attempting to set the world record for the longest toss of the dice in a backgammon game. (Are there separate records for dice tossing in each type of game?)

To accomplish this, they will be throwing the dice from a helicopter at two to three hundred feet up onto a 1 acre-sized gigantic backgammon board-shaped field.

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Chimaera Roleplaying Universe

28 Mar

Posted by David as RPGs

Chimaera Comics, the new publisher of comic books (or “graphic novels” if you prefer) from Chimaera Studios, has announced that there will also be a new roleplaying game based on the Chimaera comics universe. According to an interview with George Singley of Chimaera on the Newsarama website, Mongoose Publishing has already completed development of the core rulebook and is hard at work on the first supplement, the Hellhounds Companion Book. In response to an inquiry from Purple Pawn, Matthew Sprange of Mongoose confirmed that the company has indeed completed work on a Chimaera RPG and is now in the process of determining a release date. In his interview, George describes the game as having “a unique team dynamic system that helps immerse you in the game play from the start to finish.”