The Evil puzzles are the most fun. I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 21st 2025) in less than 18 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Just dropped a chunk of change on short-run production copies of my surrealist trick-taker This Is Not a Game About a Pipe. Incoming mid-October. Very exciting! Come by the Indie Games Night Market Friday night at PAX Unplugged this year to grab a copy!

Looking for a relevant book to give your new graduates in the coming year?

I've designed tabletop games focused on works in the public domain based on a song, a book of poetry, and a painting. Can I make a game based on a specific piece of furniture? Let's find out. #gamedesign #publicdomain

In line at 6:30am for Brooklyn borough distribution of Shakespeare in the Park tickets. I'm 6th.

Excited to be a part of the Indie Games Night Market with my surrealist trick taking game, This Is Not a Game About a Pipe! If you're going to be at PAXU this year, stop by on Friday night and grab a copy. Check out the other new games in the vendor listing. I feel like I'm in great company!

A salient thread on how using AI robs us of our messy, challenging, glorious human creativity.

I found this piece useful and compelling. It's worth a read if you engage with tabletop games at all, even if you don't design them.

A brilliant use of games. I beat it in 156 seconds, but I think I can Don't Rank Cuomo faster.

A perfect joke. "A New Zealand couple were prosecuted for naming their twin daughters Jane and Notjane. They were fined $500 and ordered to change the girl's name. This was done and the sisters are now known as Diana and Notjane" -John Finnemore

More gratifying words about #ThisIsNotAGameAboutAPipe! www.techdirt.com/2025/05/24/g...

I'm enamored of the analogy of The Sorcerer's Apprentice with regards to AI with the major exception that there is no Sorcerer to show up and put things aright when things spiral out of control. theconversation.com/avoiding-ai-...

Today's the day: We're thrilled to announce the WINNERS OF THE 2025 CARDBOARD EDISON AWARD!!! cardboardedison.com/award 🧵

Advanced POD prototype of This Is Not a Game About a Pipe came today. Some expected cut drift, but they look stellar!

I'm so proud to have won Best Analog Game in this year's public domain game jam, Gaming Like It's 1929! They really grokked my surrealist trick-taking game, This Is Not A Game About a Pipe. gtmac.itch.io/this-is-not-...

Game designers, check out the Kabbadi World Cup live from the UK. This amazing sport is a fascinating study in how the realities of actual play are not likely to be intuited from the written rules. This sport also has some rather unique rules in the world of sport. www.youtube.com/live/YClIqJk...

You have to make a bad game before it can become a good game. Hatchlings: A "Four Eggs" Game has made it from my head to the table! That is always the hardest part for me.

Staggering ineptitude and privilege. Perhaps a minimum of 5 minutes of industry and market analysis would have been a good idea.

yes. love it. do this.

Christopher Nolan can get anyone he wants to be in his films, but he can't get someone that can do a movie poster that doesn't botch the language? Here, kitty kitty.

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Would you classify the word Parachute under the category of Transportation?

Welcome to the United States of X.

K! So! We spent this week figuring out how the tariffs, inflation and other bullshit is going to affect business. Time to thread. For those not in the know, I'm the Director at Hachette Boardgames USA and I import games for foreign publishers and market and sell them in the US. 1/?

Tally ho with Cardboard Edison Award judging. What new awesomeness will there be this year? I just wish I had time to see all 348 of the entries. #CardboardEdisonAward

REMINDER: If you want to submit your game to the 2025 Cardboard Edison Award, today is your last day! Details at cardboardedison.com/award

I promise that I will respect your intelligence by not posting un-cited, unverified "news" regardless of how funny or inciting it might be. I ask that you do the same. Misinformation is much of what got us here in the first place. Trying to "balance the playing field" in this way drags us all down.

"Rutger Hauer, second only to Rutgest Hauest." -Mike Trapp 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"This Is Not a Game About a Pipe" submitted to Gaming Like It's 1929 (a public domain game jam)! Print-and-play available. Print-on-demand coming soon! gtmac.itch.io/this-is-not-...

Very excited! I have a feeling that Baynton is going to be the greater chaos agent. youtu.be/rDS81S4_CWM?...