A summary of the 1st World Mind Sports Games which occurred in Beijing:

• 15 days
• 5 games: Bridge, Chess, Xiangqi, Go, Checkers
• 2,736 attendees
• 143 countries
• China scored the most medals: 12 gold, 8 silver, and 6 bronze
• 10,000,000 TV viewers a day

You may have missed that, so let’s just repeat: 10 MILLION people watched other people play board and card games every day, for 15 days. And the video feed was only available in Europe and the Far East.

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Stacy Downs at The Kansas City Star gives us her winter game recommendations:

• Hasbro’s Monopoly Here and Now World
• Hasbro’s Partini
• Hasbro’s Trivial Pursuit 25th Anniversary Ed
• Hasbro’s Trivial Pursuit Digital Choice
• Agricola

Can anyone spot the odd one out?

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In the “How clever!” department we have Play By Comment, a story RPG where the GM writes what happens in the posts and the players respond in the comments.

How clever! Stats about the players are tracked on the sidebar.

And it’s been going on for over 2 years.

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Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Stormfront is the 39th set of Pokemon cards, the 23rd released by Pokemon USA (the first sets were released by Wizards of the Coast).

“Diamond and Pearl” refers to the 4th generation of cards, which correspond to the fourth installment of the video game series, which corresponds to the tenth season of the anime series.

Just so you know.

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Humans!!! is the compliment to Zombies!!! from Twilight Creations, only this time you play the zombie trying to spread the joy while avoiding the pesky humans who want to kill  you.

It can be played together with Zombie!!!

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