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Arcs: a spacefaring strategy game Elite and the volunteer emergency services The pub quiz 'Play Your Cards Right' jackpot meets Monte Carlo analysis Scrabble: not a game of language? Games of cooperative counting (Part 2): The Mind Games of cooperative counting (Part 1): Hanabi Discovering Horde Chess Droidfish the Nihilistic Android chess app Games lengthy and historical: thoughts after "The Campaign for North Africa"

Book Closing Lines Quiz (October 2021) Book Closing Lines Quiz (October 2021) - with answers Book Opening Lines Quiz (May 2020) Book Opening Lines Quiz (May 2020) - with answers

Constellations - plays branching and switching - and fragmentary Tolkien The History Boys, and teachers real and archetypal (August 2004) A Tom Stoppard riddle A Tom Stoppard riddle - with answer

Quizzes in the Goldilocks Zone The Filing Cabinet and the Imp (March 2004) Maths jokes from Alexa, Google, and Princeton

The lost delights and challenges of type-in programs A Mini adventure in Inform 7 Adventures in accidental and essential complexity

Two musical Easter eggs - with unicorns, artists, and heavenly dancers Frets, on ukuleles, violins, and - tangentially - minds

The tricky Round Britain Quiz Three types of ambiguity - jokes with footnotes [1]