Links: game

Filing away for when I need a gift for someone that enjoys fun (and for the next visit to Brooklyn). Billed as curiosity shop and magic theatre, I could browse through all the game boards and cards for hours. Shop local, even from afar I say.

7 guesses to guess the movie/tv poster. A clue is revealed and image less pixelated with each wrong guess. New posters daily.

This is a fun game (and it remembers your session if you return in the same browser). / via TIV

This toot has an amuse-bouche overview of the history of Monopoly and it's damning. NPR has a deeper dive. / via Luke & Naz

I've played a few of these games and enjoyed them a little extra because of the visual vibes. There's a few on the list I very much want to check out. I'm looking at you Tokyo Highway.

Dan Cederholm makes me feel that every font should have an accompanying game and every game should inspire a new font.

As developer v buckenham says of Downpour "Collage together images & text, link them up, then share online. It's really easy to use! No coding needed!" And if you don't know what game to make? It has tutorials and sample unfinished games to fiddle with.

A dice game by Keymaster beautifully designed by Carpenter Collective. Just played this over the weekend and can attest, it is as fun as it is pretty. Super easy to learn and games are short.

Production of board games, cards, custom dice, packaging, coins, game pieces and then some. (Filing away because making a game is on my life bucket list!)

Hypnotic browser/mobile puzzle game using satellite images and a soundtrack from Space Shuttle recordings / by Nadya Suvorova

Young Jerks sure can build momentum. This is one of the most striking landing pages for a future Kickstarter game I've seen.

Took me three days to figure out what was going on, but this is one of the Wordle variants that hits a sweet spot of gameplay and challenge. / via Emily

In this NY Times crossword, either WARS or TREK would work. Schrodinger's Puzzles kind of boggle my mind.

You get 5 tries to guess a single word each day. It's like Mastermind, but with language. Super fun. / via Waxy

Playfully tests how well you know your friends, family, partners, or coworkers — a set of 500 cards helping you learn more about what they love and who they are.