O frabjous weekend
Another year, another Mystery Hunt. This iteration was especially nice. For the first time I was able to finish the hunt.
#games & puzzles
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Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →At last year's Mystery Hunt, when I woke up early Sunday morning to discover that the coin had already been found, I turned to a teammate and said sadly, "I wish Mystery Hunt could go on forever\..."
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Pleasant Distractions
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I had a conversation with some of my housemates earlier this week about our favorite games, and I thought I'd expound on a few of mine for just a bit. These are all browser-based games, so they're only a few clicks away.
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Guess Who
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →This week I visited New York and stayed with my cousins while their mother was in the hospital. Over the course of several days, my younger cousin, K, and I hacked the board game 'Guess Who?'
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Puzzling
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →My sister asked me to make a puzzle hunt for her bachelorette party. While it's tailored to her interests, it should be possible for anyone to solve - and hopefully pretty fun, too.
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Gamechangers
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →One of my favorite things to do at camp is to visit the game shelf. It's stacked high with donated games, most of which sit unused for months at a time. Many of the games are for children much younger than those who go to camp. Others are missing vital pieces or are simply way too bland to lure kids away from building treehouses and robots or hitting each other with boffer swords.
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Holiday Spirits
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →In lieu of writing an actual blog post this week, here are some pictures of our easter keg hunt. (Apologies for the quality, it's a camera phone.)
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Seriously.
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →The other day at work, while I was hanging around the coffee machine, I saw a flyer for an IAP (read: Jan Term) course on "Serious Games". It looked neat, so I emailed the instructor to get the syllabus, and I've started playing my way through. I figured I'd post my half-formed thoughts about how these projects work both as games and as tools to educate/persuade/mobilize people.
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Puzzled
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →The Mystery Hunt was last weekend. It was unexpectedly musicals-themed and expectedly exhaustingly awesome. I wanted to briefly highlight my favorite puzzles from this year:
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Hunting Grounds
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →The last two weeks my attention has been pretty well captured by Parts & Crafts, the summer camp my housemates run. They invited me to come teach this past session, which was themed 'Imaginary Worlds'. We made card games, choose your own adventure books, chocolate aliens, telegraphs - but by far everyone's favorite activity was the Puzzle Hunt.
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Up Against the Wall, Boardgamers!
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →A few days ago I was browsing around Play This Thing, looking to find a present for a friend, when I stumbled across something else entirely: a review for Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker!, a board game made in 1969 in honor of the Columbia riots. According to Play This Thing's review, the game is a fun, maybe even thought-provoking, but has roughly zero replay value.
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Fun and Games
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Hannukah has always been my favorite Jewish holiday. No fasting, no seders - just candles, latkes, and dreidels. Here's a confession, though. I don't like the dreidel game. It's - well, it's boring.