Pyramath from I See Cards is the brainchild of engineering professor Ron Eaglin, who, when not teaching or inventing a card game, spends his time hiking, biking, and paddling through rough terrain and rapids.

Pyramath is a card game for 1 or 2 players. The cards are numbered 1 through 9, and you have to make a pyramid where any card on a row is the math result (+, -, *, or /, and mod 10) of the two numbers above it.

Cards also have the name of the number in six languages.

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EA Mobile and Hasbro have now released Monopoly Here and Now World Edition, Clue, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, and Yahtzee Adventures.

These join previous Hasbro for the IPhone titles Scrabble, Monopoly Here and Now, And The Game of Life.

You can play them on your phone. Alexander Graham Bell’s long dream is finally coming true.

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An article in the Baraboo News Republic (Wisconsin) has Baraboo’s Walmart pushing Wii’s and other electronica, alongside Todd Wickus of Just Imagine Toys pushing board games.

Todd’s bestsellers include Bananagrams, Camp, and Quelf. A local school principal chimes in and also recommends board games such as Monopoly and Sorry!, as well as The Settlers of Catan which he plays with his grown kids.

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A research site Onepoll asked UK residents what their favorite board game is and the result was Monopoly. Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, Chess, and Cluedo were runners up.

It seems to me that asking people what their “favorite” board game is is more likely to get you the list of the most famous board games, rather than the most favorite board games. Scrabble is the number one selling game this year, for instance. And most board games simply remain unknown to most people, because parents don’t buy them for their kids.

For comparison, Onepoll’s survey of the most popular video games were: Super Mario Bros, Pac-Man, Tetris, The Sims, and Sonic The Hedgehog. (source)

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A startlingly clever idea, The Time Machine is a choose your own adventure game on YouTube. The creators made a series of video clips, and you navigate from one to the next through links in the video itself.

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Flatland role-playing game is based on the 1880 book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot. Flatland describes a world that is entirely two-dimensional; it’s more of a discussion to help you understand dimensions than it is a novel, but it’s pretty cute.

The game contains rules for character creation, three adventures, four adventure outlines, a war game, and much more, including the original novel. All proceeds are donated to Doctors Without Borders.

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4Kids, license holder of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon, is cutting 15% of its workforce as a result of “the current economic storm”. (source)

Toys R Us reported $100 million losses in Q3 for reason that include unfavorable currency exchanges and declining sales. (source)

Toys for Tots critically low on donations this year. (source) Many other charities are feeling the same pinch.

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The Meadowview Elementary School is collecting new and used board games for a project they call “Batteries Not Included”.

After using the games for three weeks to teach math, reading, directions, and so on, they will send a game home with each child so that the kids can play with their parents (so you may get back the game you donate).

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In the long RPG tradition of Dungeonland, The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror, and Grimm, Triple Ace Games brings Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Savage Worlds with Wonderland No More: Egg of Seven Parts. The ebook presents a complete campaign with the players taking over for all the King’s Horses and Men and sent off in search of Humpty Dumpty’s missing pieces. Along the way, they’ll face Jabberwock and explore the Chessboard Fields. Wonderland No More includes special rules and gear, and details the unique geography and characters to be found down the rabbit hole.

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