Having observed that the four most common household boardgames – Monopoly, Cluedo (AKA Clue), Trivial Pursuit, and Scrabble – are often tedious and frustrating and overlong, the game designers at Hide&Seek set about to create a whole book’s worth of variant rulesets and tweaks that use some or all of the pieces from some or all of the games. After exhaustive playtesting, they’ve arrived at a set of games that are insanely fun to play, treating the wicked bits and pieces (all those green houses, exciting little murder weapons, handy letter-tiles, question cards and pie-wedges) as infrastructure on which new, better games may be built. (via Boardgame Remix Kit makes inspired new games out of old Monopoly, Clue, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble sets – Boing Boing)