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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…
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pigtailsandritalin: Last week I rounded up some of the geniuses I work with and gave them glittery unicorn temporary tattoos. Well, except Kevin – I ran out of unicorn tatts, so he has a ketchup packet Scotch-taped to his arm. He keeps it on his desk and occasionally wears it when he’s upset, kind of…
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Sir Richard’s, a new condom startup, is advertising its wares not by promises of hair-pulling, nail-scratching pleasure, but rather economics. Simply put, it costs so much to have a damn kid that you better not have one by accident. (via Condom Campaign Highlights Dizzying Costs of Having a Kid | Co.Design)
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There is a myth, common in American culture, that work and play are entirely separate activities. I believe they are more entwined than ever before. As the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget once said, “Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.” A playful mind thrives on ambiguity, complexity, and improvisation—the very things needed…