Hasbro was none too happy to discover that complete electronic editions of their new 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons hads already been leaked and downloaded. They think they know who did it and are “moving forward on handling it appropriately”.

Of course, given that this event has inspired new publicity, as well as more interest in the game, it’s hard to see how this has really hurt them.

About 100 copies of the game were also erroneously sold prematurely on Buy.com.

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The Guardian has a nice article on mathematicians and the time thy spend with puzzles and games. Including the question: “[is there] something self-indulgent, even wasteful, about the finest minds in mathematics spending their time working on pastimes such as juggling, pine cone counting or even puzzle solving?”

The article ends with three puzzles to solve.

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