The Mail Tribune, a local paper of South Oregon, posted an interview with local denizen Merry Vediner, owner of Funagain Games.

It’s got history of the company, a bit about their business ($1-$1.5 million in annual sales), and how she became interested in the games business:

What inspired you to go into this line of work? We were invited to a game night and we were only familiar with Monopoly. The original owner, Rick Soued, kept inviting my husband, Mike, and I, and he finally said he would open a great bottle of wine if we came, so we did. The first game we played was a German game called Carcassonne. We played, it took 10 minutes to learn and 40 minutes to play. It was a whole new game mechanism. We assumed all games meant rolling dice, passing Go and took three hours. We didn’t know there could be a game unfold in front of you as you played; everything was new and different and encouraged conversation.

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Finesse West Tours is an all-bridge, all-travel tour operator that creates vacations around high-class touring and bridge games.

They sell their tours as an opportunity not only to play Bridge, but to see the world, and to play and meet with local people around the world.

As you may expect, it’s not cheap.

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Catur Bistari is a Malaysian game from Johor Corp about investing.

They will be selling it in KFC’s around Malaysia by the end of the month (JCorp owns a percentage of KFC in Malaysia), and are hoping to get it worked into the school system, and then translated into other languages besides Bahasa Malaysia.

I found some pictures here.

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Margaret Maldonado is the ex-wife of Jermaine Jackson, and the head of a fashion design agency for the stars. Clients of her students include J-Lo, Gwen Stefani, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, and Sean “Puffy” Combs.

This November she will be launching a Fashion-themed trivia board game. And that’s all I got.

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Frank Newman, a property lecturer at Massey University, has created a board game simulating five years of investing in two hours of play time.

The board game is meant to be played with computer assistance, which tracks variables such as market values.

It will be launched next year.

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