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laura_robinsonLaura Robinson, co-inventor of Balderdash and Identity Crisis, is interviewed on Marketplace on American Public Media.

Laura is also a Canadian singer-songwriter and a babe.

Here’s another interview from 2007 from the Gill Deacon show.

ceoNo Dice Board Games is a branch of the media corp VIVE Productions of Denmark. They make TV and radio shows, and then make the merchandise for them.

No Dice has sold over 200,000 board games in the last three years, starting with the topical CEO (Cheat Every One, an English equivalent of their Danish only hit game PBX), games tied into Danish TV shows, and several trivia games, such as Master of Television, Master of Movies, and others.

Their game Betcha isn’t described, but it looks suspiciously like another entry in the modern trivia/betting genre.