Haines City, FL: Nine arrested for illegal gaming and card gaming. (source)

around IN: Three-card Monty being operated on state highway rest stops. (source)

Baldwinsville, NY: Mayor shuts down 50 cents a game gambling in senior center. (source)

Tel Aviv, Israel: Man kills two and wounds 15 people talking and playing board games at a gay youth center. (source)

South Yorkshire, UK: Men divert woman by asking how to play Dominoes and steal money from her purse. (source)

Cowichan Lake, CA: People playing either a board game or card games in a boat (source contradicts itself) are run into by another board going at full speed. (source)

Tallahasse, FL: Man shot in the chest while playing cards. (source)

Not really criminal: Sun City, SC: Two women on their way to a card game drive into a lake and are rescued by a resident. (source)

Miami-Dade, FL: Victor Agosto led Miami-Dade U from no chess club to the recipient of the US Chess Fed’s Chess College of the Year. Now he’s going to jail and dishonorable discharge for refusing deployment to Iraq beyond his enlistment terms (under “stop-loss”), over conscientious objection. (source)

Sweden: Founder of the site Pokerlistings.com found shot dead in his bed. (source)

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Telepathy from sggc LMD Enterprises is a board game that crosses Guess Who and Battleship. Oh what the heck: and Clue. And Battleship. It was produced by FunHub Creative.

Each player has a large grid of squares, each with a different color and shape, and chooses a secret square. On your turn, guess a square, and your opponent tells you if the row, column, shape, or color matches his or her chosen square. Keep track of your clues with dry erase markers.

Plays for 2-4 players, but it looks like 2 players, or two partnerships, would be the ideal.

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Sababa Toys closed down last year, taking Front Porch Classics with it. The Front Porch Classics line found a home at University Games. Where did the company’s talented designers go?

They started FunHub Creative, a board game design group, with talents for graphics, carpentry, design, illustration, marketing, print production, and so on. Front Porch Classics were among the most beautiful mass market games, so they probably have something to offer (and it’s probably not cheap).

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