Pulling Strings by Blue Panther is an abstract game where you try to move five disks into your home positions from the middle of the board.

The original game comes with English alphabet and sign language disks for specifying rows and columns on the board. New expansion packs add 1) Roman numerals and 2) Greek letters (which is odd, as a note at the end of the rules indicated that the expansions were going to be Roman numerals, and Japanese Katakana and Hiragana).

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Grammaticus, by David Kinder of Alton College, is a word based card game available locally in Petersfield, Hampshire, UK.

It uses words on the cards, word types (noun, adjective) as the card suits, and plays something like rummy.

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One attempt to add more skill to the game of Poker, and work around U.S. laws that ban it, is DuplicatePoker.com .

Duplicate Poker, inspired by the idea of duplicate Bridge, requires you not only to play against your opponents at the same table, but to play better than other players playing in the same seat as you with the same cards at different tables. Your wins and losses are not based on how well you fare at your table alone, but on how well you do compared to how well the other players did sitting at the other tables. This largely, but not entirely, eliminates luck from the game.

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Robyn Fleming writes about the evolution of gender and stereotype D&D in the latest Cerise Magazine. She looks at what’s up with 4e D&D’s online character creation and illustrations.

According to Robyn, things are looking up, but there’s still a ways to go.

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