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Life Update

I had a post mostly completed about a topic I thought I hadn’t written about before, but it turns out I had. That topic is the Game of Life, and I noticed a few different newer editions of it at … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Board Games, Cartoons, Celebrities, Economics, Games, Mario, Monopoly, Oz, Technology, Television, The Simpsons, Video Games | Tagged art linkletter, conway's game of life, emerald city, game of life, john horton conway, king bowser koopa, krusty the clown, luigi mario, milton bradley, money, new deal, poor farms, princess peach toadstool, promissory notes, spinner, super mario edition, the wizard of oz (1939), yoshi |

Gaming the System

I already wrote a post about sports and games in the Oz series, but I had a few more ideas along those lines that I thought I could develop somewhat. Characters in the books are frequently seen playing games, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Chess, Chris Dulabone, Dick Martin, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Games, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sports | Tagged a queer quest for oz, baseball, croquet, dorothy of oz, game preserve, game river, jack pott, jack pumpkinhead of oz, lucky bucky in oz, ozmapolitan, ploppa, polo, queen zixi of ix, roger baum, ruth morris, ruth waara, scrabble, sir hokus of pokes, snakes and ladders, spinner, sticks and stones, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the flying bus in oz, the magic cryptogram of oz, the magical monarch of mo, the royal book of oz, the rundelstone of oz, umbrella island in oz |