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Tobit, from NewVenture Games.
 

This is from Kakassia, in Russian central Asia. I never heard of Kakassia either. Credit to David McCord for noticing and putting out this game. It's not like he was sitting at the table listening to the rules in Kakassian or Russian.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Twelve. I still like that earlier blue raft board, but .. complications. Blue dice, with some felt marker work? Mmm .. looking at drilling again, somehow properly. Ahh .. the dice and the boards have different blues. Simple glass pieces that you look through to see a number? No, but points for creativity. Discs with Roman numerals? Has advantages. Improper angle of dice would not be an issue. One may be able to get discs made of shell at Michael's, as you can see on the picaria page.
 
 
 
 

Time to work on Safari Race, tighten it up and test it more. It's competitive, yet a lot of game play is co-operative trading.

What is an Australian animal? Is a crocodile an Australian animal? How about box jellyfish? Are owls not Australian animals?
 
 
 
 

Atlantis Chess is going to get proper pieces, plastic, maybe resin cubes, chess pieces and seahorses, yellow and blue ("Ukrainian colors" as one site put it).
 
 
 
 

Thinking out loud. Escape The Room - Essen. Games, distractions, spending your money, food, navigation, crowds, nice games, meeting people, bathrooms, spending more money, carrying stuff. Language barriers. For booth people and content creators, you have considerations like meetings, sales and supplies, people need to be in booths, sometimes money gets stolen.
 

Essen Spiel convention is apparently a neat experience. But if you want to play games it's the wrong place.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Why is the sport called curling? Does something curl?

It was actually the tabletop game I was thinking of. Does that curling game involve curling? Or sweeping?
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dreams of memories. Memories of dreams.
 

Make a game with that. Or an activity or something.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Language, Culture and Geography


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

Ukrainian alphabet
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

Is Belgorod, in Russia, pronounced Belgorod or Belhorod? Mongolia

At the risk of spreading misinformation, it's Belgorod in Russian and Belhorod in Ukraine - and in southern Russia. See quora for weird details. Peek into wikipedia for spelling.
 
 
 
 

How is the word "Cyrillic" pronounced?
 

In English it's pronounced syrillic. How do Slavic people pronounce it?

Russians pronounce it like this, and in Ukrainian it is this, with a hard c.

Poles, on the other hand, pronounce it as this, with an s. Poles do not use the Cyrillic alphabet.

And what of the Serbs*? They use two alphabets for their language: Cyrillic and Latin (particularly online). They pronounce it like this.
 
 

*Or the Snerbs, if you've read the book Non Campus Mentis.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Travel filmmaker chooses Winnipeg - of all places - as home base after visiting 80 countries


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What does "flux" mean? dictionary.com


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Science


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What is a flux tube?


 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 

wikipedia
 

I don't know that gluon flux tubes involve magnetism. Magnetism is part of the electromagnetic force. The strong nuclear force is a different force which keeps the quarks together.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Music, Film, and Television


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

'Saturday Night' director credits success of 'SNL' to show's Canadian influence / trailer
 
 

The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour (1970-1971)
 

promo

9:30 in Newfoundland


 
 
 
 

Shooting 'My Old Ass' in Muskoka felt like summer camp, director and star say / trailer


 
 
 
 

'The Hobby,' Documentary About Board Game Players

Variety


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Military


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Where was the battle of Kursk, '43?
 

Kursk battle 1943 map / Kursk oblast
 

I caught somewhere that the Germans who fought there would have called it the Bryansk Orel battle or something, not Kursk. That got me curious. I note that Kursk is a city, and the battle is never presented as urban. Kursk is both a city and an oblast (pronounced with a long o in Russian). It seems to me the battle of Kursk was in Orel/Oryol oblast, Kursk oblast and Belgorod oblast. Bryansk city would have been a transport hub, and the battle bumped into the fringes of Ukraine.
 

Volgograd, then known as Stalingrad, was southeast of all that. How cold could that be?
 
 

Volgograd temperature      Winnipeg temperature


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Other


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

So you're making a film about the Trump years, roughly the four years he was president in the United States. But since it's such a big topic you will have to focus on one person, although that rule will be bent/broken. Which person will you focus on?
 
 

Your Trump era film.
 
 

part 4

work in progress


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 

A couch cephalopod.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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