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Threadneedle, Frost, Brown, and Smith, Limited

The 1987 Oziana contains four stories, one much shorter than the others, all of which are of the sort that complement the main series. The front cover shows Melody Grandy’s illustration of Robin Olderman’s idea for the Quadling flag. A note … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Board Games, Characters, Dice, Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, Fred Otto, Games, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Maps, Melody Grandy, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Pachisi, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bill eubank, bill stillman, blankenburg, button-bright, button-bright and the knit-wits of oz, chris sterling, cookywitches, dorothy gale, flags, fred meyer, fuddlecumjig, glinda, jack frost, james e. haff, jim vander noot, knit-wits, knitting, laughing valley of hohaho, oziana, parcheesi, peter brown, pirates in oz, polychrome, professor wogglebug, puns, robin olderman, stichwell j. threadneedle, sugarene, the blizzard of oz, the cowardly lion of oz, the emerald city of oz, the ice king of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the lost king of oz, the lost tales of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the other searches for the lost princess, the runaway shadows, the two peters, the woggle-bug's new clothes, thumbumbia, tippetarius, tyler tichelaar |

Pandering to Pandavas

I’d been interested in the story of the Mahabharata, even more so since reading the Aru Shah books, in which the Pandavas are reincarnated as teenage girls. So I checked out an abridged edition translated by William Buck. While much … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Book Reviews, Dice, Dragon Quest, Families, Games, Hinduism, History, India, Magic, Mythology, Pachisi, Philosophy, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Video Games | Tagged arjuna, aru shah, ashvins, bhagavad gita, bhima, dharma, dharma raja, dhritarashta, dragon quest xi, draupadi, duryodhana, gambling, ganesh, hastinapura, indra, karna, kauravas, krishna, kunti, kurukshetra war, luminary, madri, mahabharata, mohandas gandhi, moses, nakula, pandavas, pandu, remus, rick riordan presents, romulus, roshani chokshi, sahadeva, sargon, surya, vayu, vichitravirya, vyasa, william buck, yudhisthira |

When I Get to the Bottom, I Go Back to the Top of the Slide

I recently saw an update from Amanda Palmer where she mentioned playing Snakes and Ladders with her son, apparently what you do when your husband leaves you in the middle of a pandemic, or something. But what I actually wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Amanda Palmer, Animals, Board Games, Games, Hinduism, History, India, Islam, Jainism, Music, Pachisi, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged asuras, candy land, chutes and ladders, devas, fatalism, gyan chaupar, gyandev, karma, milton bradley, moksha patam, morality, snakes, snakes and ladders |

I Play Some Pachinko, I Play Pachisi

One of the books I’m currently reading is something called Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, which Beth actually gave me several years ago. A fair amount of it simply explains the rules of the various games, which doesn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Games, History, India, Monopoly, Oz, Oz Authors, Pachisi, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged akbar the great, board and table games from many civilizations, clue, cluedo, ludo, Mensch-ärgere-dich-nicht, parcheesi, r.c. bell, sorry, the royal book of oz |