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Story Archives of 'Games'
Here's What's Awesome: Seaweed Fights Obesity, Braille Rubik's Cubes
By Brady Carlson on Sunday, March 21, 2010.Maybe you've been following some of the contentious political debates going on, and you might think that society is so polarized that people on the one side will never find common ground with people on the other. And yet... everyone loves awesome links. For who among us hasn't been touched by a good video mashup? Who can't enjoy a story about a helpful robot, or an energy-saving technology that hooks up to your laptop?
Stimulus Money in Action
By Jen Nathan on Wednesday, November 4, 2009.If you’ve ever driven down a narrow rural road marred by pot holes, or walked through a crowded street begging for a larger sidewalk, you might have wondered where all that economic stimulus money is going. Now there’s an app for that.
Uniting Africa With a Roll of the Dice
By Todd Bookman on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
Arbitrary borders, ethnic conflict, and minimal infrastructure divided the pan-African movement of the past century, but one man hopes to bring disparate African nations together - with a board game.
It’s called Jekaben, meaning "Let's Unite and Decide Together" in the Bambara language. A Senegalese entrepreneur who created the game hopes it will inspire youth to make the United States of Africa a reality.
Fill in the Blanks
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, June 30, 2009.
You know all those studies that say that crossword puzzles help maintain mental fitness and may even stave off Alzheimer's? Dean Olsher begs to "six-letter word for disagree." That’s differ, by the way.
Dean’s new book, From Square One: A Meditation, With Digressions, On Crosswords, argues that doing crosswords is an addiction. An escape into a singular universe. A soul-numbing defense mechanism. But there are worse addictions, right?
Dean Olsher is a longtime radio producer, and listeners may know him as host of The Next Big Thing. He's also in the top ten of the D Division of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, and one of the rare birds who caught an error in The New York Times crossword puzzle, and can claim to have caught Will Shortz in a mistake. He joins us from New York, where he is visiting professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
From Square One: A Meditation, With Digressions, On Crosswords
(Photo by Philippa Willitts via Flickr/Creative Commons)
Here's What's Awesome: Shoe-Phone, Solar-Powered AC
By Brady Carlson on Monday, March 2, 2009.
In honor of Word of Mouth's first birthday, this week's collection of awesome links are all fun items that would've make great presents for my WOM colleagues. (Not that the Journey Escape machine I picked up was in any way not a hit at the WOM birthday party.)
Please invent the Cone of Silence now
Top Secret Dance-Off
By Avishay Artsy on Friday, February 6, 2009.If you love to dance AND love playing online games, then this new endeavor might be for you. From the mind of alternative game designer Jane McGonigal (who's joined Word of Mouth twice - at The New Yorker's "Stories from the Near Future" conference, and again to talk about her game Superstruct) comes Top Secret Dance-Off, a massively multiplayer game based on a Ning social network.
The History of Monopoly
By Laura Knoy on Thursday, March 22, 2007.The leading expert on all things Monopoly gives us the history of the Monopoly game, its explosive growth since Parker Brothers introduced it in 1935 and the global impact it has had more than seventy years later with more than 200,000,000 copies sold worldwide and countless special editions of the game from The Simpsons to Star Wars. Laura's guest is Philip Orbanes, president of the specialty games company Winning Moves. He was formerly a Senior Vice-President of Research and Development at Parker Brothers and is now a consulting member of the board of directors for Hasbro Games. He has been the chief judge at Monopoly championships for almost thirty years and has written several books, his latest being "Monopoly: America's Game".
