Xerox is a sponsor of the Illustration Conference ICON5, and as such arranged with ICON5 to produce a custom designed set of cards to hand out to the 400 conference participants.

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The five of clubs:

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The nine of spades:

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Make Your Own

Did you ever feel like you could design your own playing cards? You can try it out at Custom 52, which solicits designs, opens it up to a vote, and then publishes the winners as decks of cards.

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In March, the world record for the number of Dominoes players was set during the Calle Ocho Street Festival in Miami. The record was 278 players.

That number has now been beat. The new world record was set at the VI World Championship of Dominoes in Orlando. The new record is 332 players.

Still doesn’t sound that hard to beat.

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During their five years of captivity, the Colombian hostages carved an ornate chess set and played Chess in order to keep sane.

They did such a good carving job, that their captors requested a set, as well.

Marc spent three months carving the pieces. “We would sit chained and, thanks to this guy, we were sitting on a piece of plastic, just playing chess,” narrates Keith Stansell. “When you are doing that you are free. Your mind is engaged, you are not a prisoner. That’s the gain, that’s the victory. And they don’t even know it.

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The Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign setting is now available for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. Being made available by Kenzer and Company as a 501 page PDF book, Kalamar features extensive cultural background information, as well as a full-color scholarly atlas. Kalamar was very successful as a 3.5 edition setting and has the style to fit well a 4e campaign.

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