Posts Tagged ‘Board Games’
Apple markets its iPad as “The best way to experience the web, photos and video. Hands down.” But we can do all those things just fine on a laptop, so what’s the iPad’s real raison d’être? The answer, of course, is board games. The iPad seems custom designed to lie flat on a table and [...]
In Poker or Chess, you always want your opponents to guess wrongly about your true intentions; in Charades or Taboo you always want your teammates to guess correctly; but as the storyteller in Dixit you want to create a state of affairs that is perfectly ambiguous. As the players cast their votes and the round resolves it sometimes becomes clear that you should have made your story more or less obvious in order to place it more fully within that region of fuzzy uncertainty.
