I've been meaning to write up a history of the game Charades, and I finally got around to it this weekend. It's mostly a discussion of Neysa McMein's "The Game," plus a couple of translations from Charles Sorel on similar games and a long timeline / bibliography wobbupalooza.neocities.org/charades

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I love that knights at a tournament in the French Renaissance added a LARPing or roleplaying element so that they could pretend to be knights-errant from medieval literature as they encountered each other in the tournament www.metafilter.com/209376/Knigh...

I loved @megannn-lynne.bsky.social 's poem "M.A.S.H," in the form of the children's divination game, so I posted it to Metafilter with additional historical and literary context about MASH, cootie catchers, and much earlier parlor game divination: www.metafilter.com/208032/Predi...

I've been working on this for the last couple of months and I'm so proud to be able to make something that helps folks play more, save money, and reduce their carbon footprint by reducing, reusing, and recycling their game materials. More on my idea for it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMs-...

Murder mystery LARPing has an interesting history too, not least because it's been attributed to the artist Neysa McMein. I've tried to untangle some of the details ... FYI @jameswallis.bsky.social @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social boardgamegeek.com/blog/13034/b...

The murder mystery parlor game "Murder in the Dark" has a fun history I enjoyed compiling this weekend. Probably TL;DR though, and maybe someone has done it already @jameswallis.bsky.social @jessnevins.bsky.social & @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social ? boardgamegeek.com/blog/13034/b...

Today, I'm working on another thing kind of like this old blog post. I'm not sure yet if it will be in the same format and location, but in some ways it's similar--more light roleplaying in the midst of old parlor games I don't usually track--so maybe ... boardgamegeek.com/blog/13034/b...

I figure my posting history should show a little of what to expect, so here's my parlor game website. It's unpolished amateur work--I still wonder what else might turn up that could make me reorganize it. Meanwhile I update it in small ways from time to time wobbupalooza.neocities.org