Nuremberg, Germany: Two and a half years ago we covered Das Fuehrer Quartett, the German Go-Fish game with dictators, but the state prosecutor has only now gotten around to looking into pressing charges against the publisher, having become aware of the game at the recent Toy Fair. (source)

Portsmouth, VA: Gunmen try to rob a house card game, but the residents were also armed. Fire exchanged wounds three people. (source)

Corpus Christi, TX: Two men fight at a card game over a woman. (source)

Melbourne, Australia: Professional Blackjack and Poker players caught smuggling cocaine. (source)

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Miramar Beach, FL: Three arrested for illegally gambling on craps. (source)

Washington, DC: Ex-DC police officer arrested for running illegal dice games. (source) Police seized 19 dice.

Flint, MI: Man attacks neighbor while trying to borrow a Monopoly game that she refused to lend to him. (source)

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St Catherine, Jamaica: 5 men shot to death while playing guess what. (source)

Royal Oak, MI: The owner of Michigan Toy Soldier has pleaded guilty to fraudulently charging over $189,000 worth of credit card charges to director Peter Jackson. His excuse: business was bad in 2009. (source) Apparently, Jackson is a mini collector.

A recent Fox News article would like you to know the following:

A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit weighed in Wednesday on a matter of grievous import to the nation’s prisons: Dungeons & Dragons. And the Court’s ruling was bad news for naughty nerds nationwide, concluding that the innocent-seeming board game was inviting trouble. (source)

Unfortunately for Fox News, we already covered this story when it actually happened, which was a year ago Jan, 2010, NOT Jan, 2011.

Huntsville, AL: One man shot three times in the stomach at a card game. (source)

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Mont Alto, PA: One man shoots another at a card game. (source)

San Diego, CA: Woman pleads guilty to cheating 29 casinos out of $7 million through card games. (source) She had 40 accomplices. There were a few other cheating at casino stories, as well as some casinos fined for serving underage patrons.

Laurens, SC: One man beaten to death at a card game. (source)

Greenville, NC: Man stabbed at a card game. (source)

Nashville, TN: Man stabbed to death at card game. (source)

Fargo, ND: A man got upset that his girlfriend was playing cards with another guy, so he knocked them both unconscious. (source)

Kansas City, MO: One man pulls a gun at a Dominoes game (drinking involved), and another man beats him senseless with an ashtray. (source)

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Wichita, KS: One man stabs another to death over a game of Dominoes. (source)

Kingston, Jamaica: Three men fined for gambling over Dominoes. (source)

Oklahoma City, OK: Police arrest several men for gambling with dice in a barber shop. (source)

Kansas City, MO: Man stabs another man to death over a Dominoes game. (source)

Norwich, CT: One man stabs another (in his back) to death over a card game. (source)

Queens, NY: One man dead and another wounded in a shooting at a card game in a barber shop. (source)

Auburn, WA: Two shot and wounded in an argument over a Dominoes game. One was a neighbor hit when the bullet went through the wall. (source)

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Seattle, WA: Wizards of the Coast employee accused of stealing $45,000 worth of rare Magic cards from his employer. (source) That’s like, what? Three Lotuses and a couple of Walks?

Anonymous, Online: One of the Operation Payback hackers describes the intention of the group as to be a force for “chaotic good”. (source) This sails by the Guardian, but someone at Time picks it up. (source)

Salt Lake City, UT: One man shoots and kills another at a card game. (source)

Leicestershire, UK: A card game leads a married woman to start an affair with a 14 year old boy. She is sentenced to three years in jail. (source)

Syracuse, NY: Man shoots and wounds four men at a card game. (source)

Shanghai, China: A fire broke out in a Mahjong parlor, killing nine people. Might have been arson. (source)

Fort Valley, GA: One man shot after a card game turns ugly. (source)

In contrast, the Sydney Morning Herald lists 4 cases of alleged death due to video game addiction that occurred over the last year. (source) Two of the cases appear to have little to do with games at all.

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Kelowna, Canada: Woman mugged after winning $6k at Blackjack at a casino. (source)

Newville, PA: Man held on numerous counts of sexual acts against children, including using card games as a stage for sexual acts. (source)

Minneapolis, MN: One man shoots another (who was winning too much) to death at a dice game. (source)

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New Orleans: Two 6-year olds and a 3-year old rob a neighbor’s house of money, cigarettes, fudge, olives, and the board game Candy Land. (source)

Corvallis, OR: Man arrested in terrorist bomb plot was a known Magic: the Gathering player. (source) And video gamer, of course.

Spartanburg, SC: Man using a gun robs four at a card game. (source)

Springfield, OH: Man pulls out and waves gun at a Dominoes game. (source)

Ithaca, NY: Man gets angry at a woman and chokes her. They reconcile over a board game and alcohol, but then he gets angry again and knocks her over with a TV tray, punches her, etc. (source)

Auburn, WA: Man shoots two people over a game of Dominoes. (source)

Stafford, VA: Man kills his cousin with a punch to the jaw after the cousin wouldn’t cover $40 at a card game. (source)

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Stockton, CA: Man shot to death in what may be either gang or gambling related violence. (source)

Bensalem, PA: Man sentenced for leaving two children and a dog (for 15 minutes)in his car to play blackjack in a casino. (source)

Cleveland, OH: Man robs a Toys-R-Us of a few board games. (source)

Gurnee, IL: Two men steal cash and credit cards from a woman at the Board Game Barrister game shop. (source)

Update: St Louis, MO: Kenneth McClure, owner of Legends Comics and Cards and previously charged with molesting a 13 year old girl, is found murdered. Two suspects, one related to the girl and with whom Ken also had a relationship, have been questioned. (source)

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Bethlehem, PA: Man beats his 70 year old wife after she returns from playing cards at a senior center. (source)

Albany, GA: 19 year old shot in the leg at a card game. (source) Source indicates that there is no relationship between this event and last week’s.

Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China: Woman forgets 4 year old in car unattended for several hours as she gets hooked into playing Mahjong. (source)

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