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Movie roundup:
The Columbus GA Ledger-Enquirer pimps the Million Minute Family Challenge to play board games with family. (source)
The BBC continues with uninteresting coverage of the Lewis Chessman set. (source)
The Texas Murphy Monitor pimps Arimaa and its inventor Omar Syed. (source)
The Honolulu Advertiser pimps Hanafuda, and the retired teacher who is trying to revive interest in it. (source) Says she, “I want to use hanafuda as a tool, a force for good.”
The Seattle PI (formerly Post-Intelligencer) pimps Bookchase in an advertisement-as-article. (source) Bookchase bills itself as the world’s first board game about books. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Double ha (from 1890).
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A Battleship movie with aliens would be consistent with what we learned about an upcoming version of the game—Battleship Galaxies:
http://www.purplepawn.com/2009/08/battleship-galaxies-from-hasbro/
Excellent. Indeed.