Pickles to Penguins is one of several new games from Imagination Games. In the game you try to find connections between two pictures. For example, both a mouth and a comb have teeth.

The game gains several notches up just for the name.

Other recent games from Imagination Games:

• Ca$h Cab: Based on the Discovery Channel’s game show, where unsuspecting taxi passengers suddenly become contestants.
• Beat the Parents: Parents must answer questions that kids probably know, and vice versa.
• Snipe It: Players must answer questions, but the last to answer before the buzzer gains the most points.
• Scabs ‘N Guts: Medical trivia game.
• Wrong Game: Players must answer a series of questions with the wrong answers (I don’t really get this one; is it that hard to give wrong answers on the spur of the moment?)

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Deep Green (obviously a take-off on the name Deep Blue) is a research project to create a pool-playing robot that can beat a human. It takes more than making a simple straight shot to play pool.

In addition to the robot, the project offers pool-play assistance through Augmented Reality.

(source)

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This should wait for the criminal roundup, but it’s a little more interesting than most:

An Indian man gambled away his 18 year-old daughter in a card game when he ran out of anything else to bet. The other guy actually dragged the girl home.

The loser was kicked out of his house, and the girl eventually rescued by neighbors.

(source)

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Here is a discussion-oriented “game” that does not, in fact, have any winners or losers. “Game” in quotes, because some people won’t accept it as a game unless there is competition and victory.

In Agreed by Steve Benson, eight quotes are flipped up and the players decide, two by two, which one is the most meaningful, until there is only one quote remaining. The idea, as all good ideas, came about over a couple of beers.

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The Prescott Daily Courier pimps the Prescott Area Boardgamers and their Eurogames. (source)

The Glen Falls area Post Star pimps Dungeons & Dragons in the context of the author of the book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. He, or perhaps the article’s author,  make fantasy gaming seem like a troubling addiction with which he has come to terms. (source)

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