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Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (31)
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      • Shabbat Gaming
      • Ignorance Sucks
    • ►  April (5)
      • Movie Reviews: Battleship, The Hunger Games, The I...
      • Homies
      • Call Me a Hippie Lesbian Collegiate
      • Malaise
      • Flowers of Haifa
    • ►  March (7)
      • Segways and Sakharof
      • Session Reports; Movie Reviews: Hugo, The Tree of ...
      • 10 More Movie Reviews
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Session Reports: A Look at T...
      • Shabbat Gaming
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Session Reports
      • I Recommend Handyman Tzvi Lefkowitz
    • ►  February (7)
      • Spirit of the Dance
      • Raanana, Jerusalem, Shabbat sessions
      • 2011 Game Industry Survey
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Session Reports
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Session Reports
      • Last Night's World Have Your Say
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Session Reports
    • ►  January (10)
      • Shabbat Gaming
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Session Reports
      • Movie Reviews
      • The Puerto Rico Slaughter
      • Jerusalem and Raanana Session Reports
      • You're Fired!
      • Jerusalem and Raanana Session Reports; Hypnotism
      • Two Near Car Crashes
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Session Reports
      • Ten Weird and Wonderful Song Transformations
  • ►  2011 (135)
    • ►  December (11)
      • Jerusalem Session Report and wishes for 2012
      • True Hearing
      • Raanana Session Report
      • 38 Years of Bridge With These Guys
      • Guests or Not
      • I Had a Busy Weekend
      • Raanana Session Report, in which I play Settlers w...
      • An Irresistable Plea
      • A Growly in the Garden
      • Raanana Session Report, in which I teach Agricola
      • Raanana and Jerusalem Sessions Report
    • ►  November (21)
      • Day 19-20: A Round of Applause
      • Day 18: Shabbat in Dallas
      • Day 17: Half-Day, Actually
      • Day 16: Many New Games
      • Day 15: Games and People
      • Day 14: A Long Drive, A Welcome Return
      • It's Alive iOS v1.1 Available
      • Day 13: Kosher, Spanish, and Chinese Style
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      • Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club: Nickels and Dimes ...
      • Two Religious Jewish Weddings. Really.
      • The Cheating That Is Not Cheating
      • Some Finer Points on Skill and Luck
      • Top Game News Items on Purple Pawn
      • The 25 Strangest Board Games of 2009
      • More of the Same, and Games
      • From (One Person's) Bris to (Another Person's) Fun...
      • Session Report, in which we try out Phoenicia
      • Two Weddings, A Funeral, A Bris, A Bar-Mitzvah, an...
      • Board Game Blog World Roundup
      • Session Report, in which every game played is our ...
      • eLuna: I screwed up
      • Shabbat and Hanukkah Gaming
      • Session Report, in which we play Homesteaders and ...
      • Watching vs Performing vs Mastering
      • Shabbat Gaming
      • Shabbat Coming
      • Session Report, in which we play new games, especi...
      • Back in Israel
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Highlights

General gaming
  • Learn to Love Board Games Again: 100+ Ways to Rejuvenate the Games You Already Own
  • 3 Stories that Games Tell
  • 4 Challenges That Games Provide
  • 5 Games You Need to Play to Live Well
  • 5 Qualities of a Good Gamer
  • 10 Favorite Board Games, My
  • 10 Important Aspects of a Game
  • 10 Most Expensive Board Games in the World
  • 10 Most Important Game Events
  • 10 Ways to Know You're a Hack Game Designer
  • 11 Rules to Follow When Playing Games
  • 2000+ Monopoly Versions
  • 2010 Game Industry Survey
  • Alternatives to Winners and Losers in Competition: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • Are Games Art?
  • Board Games Based on Video Games
  • Celebrities Who Play Board Games
  • The Commonality of all Tabletop Games
  • Ethics in Gaming: 1 2 3 4 5 6
  • Games Are Not Supposed To Be Fun
  • Games Don't Have to be Fair
  • How (and Why) to Play with Your Child in Six Steps
  • How to Stop Wasting Your Life and Start Playing Games
  • My Son Tries to Play Wargames with Me
  • On Categorizing Games
  • Sex Games
  • Strategic Games: Computers vs Humans
  • What Are Board Games?
  • Where to Buy Games Online
  • Why We Play Games
  • Why You Hate Games
Tech and IP
  • 10 Lesser Known Secrets of Blogging
  • Are Blogs Art?
  • Candaian Copyright Code, in Verse
  • Catalog of Absurd Future Copyrights and Patents
  • How Marcel Duchamp Destroyed Our Copyright System
  • How to Ruin Your Son's Computer Games
  • The Interchangeability of All Things
  • My history with electronic games: 1 2 3 4
  • The U.K. Copyright Acts, in verse
  • The U.S. Copyright code, in verse
  • The U.S. Patent code, in verse
  • The U.S. Trademark code, in verse
  • Web 3.0
Literature and Parodies
  • 50 Original Six-Word Stories
  • A Mad Game Club (Lewis Carrol)
  • d6 or not d6 (Hamlet)
  • Encounter: A cyberpunk short story. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
  • Game Koans (Zen)
  • The Gamer's Wife (Edgar Allen Poe)
  • Games and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
  • The Love Song of J Random Wargamer (T.S. Eliot)
  • The Ludonimicron (H. P. Lovecraft)
  • Roll Against Your Wisdom To Post Here (Samuel Coleridge)
  • Metamophosis (Kafka - humor)
  • Session Report (Tolkein, etc...)
  • Shake, Rattle, and Roll (Merchant of Venice)
  • Tennyson would have played Seafarers (Ulysses)
  • Three By Emily (Dickinson)
  • The Tragic Console Gamer's Tale (John Keats)
  • A True Account of Talking to Monopoly (Frank O'Hara)
  • Wargamer in a Eurogame Zone (humor)
Misc
  • 7 Steps to Creating Quality
  • 54 things about me
  • Fraternizing With the Enemy
  • How I Became a Professional Blogger (followup)
  • How I plan to take over the world
  • How to Get a Professional Corporate Blogging Job
  • How to Succeed or Fail on Kickstarter
  • You're With Yehuda

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Sunday, December 27, 2009

Top Game News Items on Purple Pawn

My top twenty board and card game news items, and my top ten Eurogame news items, are both on Purple Pawn this year.

Yehuda

 

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