When she’s not in rehab, the hospital, or having public marital problems, Amy Winehouse loves to kick back with her family and play games.

What games?

Pictionary and Boggle. She just loves clever scribbles and showing off her extensive vocabulary.

Just imagine all the different pharmaceuticals she could get out of a round of Boggle!

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Sean Pecor decided not to wait for surface computing and built an electronic battle map of his own design. Total cost, including projector: $782.66.

Now before all the gadget and AV geeks get up in arms, yes, he did consider projecting from below. Placing the projector above the table, though, achieves a brighter result and is much more portable. Sean brings the rig with him when playing at his local game store.

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Push Fight is an abstract game, similar to Abalone and Roundabouts.

Each player gets five pieces on an oddly-shaped board with 26 spaces. Each turn, you move up to two pieces as many spaces horizontally or vertically as you like, so long as the piece does not leave the board or jump another piece. You must then push one of your square pieces one space in any direction, pushing all other pieces along the same line. The piece with which you just pushed cannot, itself, be pushed on your opponent’s next turn.

The object is to knock one of your opponent’s pieces off of the board. $20 plus $8 domestic shipping.

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Norwalk, CT: Man gets hit over his head with a metal lamp on his birthday, by a friend of a friend, who also robs him of $9. (source)

Mobile, AL: Two rob a backyard Dominoes game. (source)

Garapan, Saipan: Dispute over a Mahjong game ends in a fight. (source)

Brisbane, Australia: Brisbane Roar coach fired and fined for drunk driving after drinking while playing board games. (source)

Bogota, Columbia: FARC guerrillas injure 6 people playing board games in a back yard when the grenade they threw at soldiers went astray. (source)

Rockford, IL: Two teenagers shot to death over a dice game. (source)

Pattaya, Thailand: Several arrested for playing hi lo. It’s gambler hunting season. (source)

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Now you can keep the drama going between seasons. GOLD, the internet video series about competitive roleplaying, is available as a card game. Or, you can skip the game part and just obsess over the characters.

Efforts are also underway to produce a DVD of Season 1. To participate in funding this project, join the DVD Club at Kickstarter.

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Steve Jackson Games is giving away a free-but-print-it-yourself new GURPS doohickey, a range ruler. On this 10 inch section of paper are marked hexes with appropriate range and size modifiers, so you can play without excessive table references, maybe even leave out the battle map.

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