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Tabletop Games January 2019 |
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Circulating Board Game Collection! |
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Did you know that Library 21c, Penrose Library and Cheyenne Mountain Library all offer circulating board games that you can check out? Games like: Hive Mind, Oregon Trail, Exploding Kittens & More Visit each branch to browse the games they have available! |
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Challenge your friends or family to a round of your favorite game while you nosh on some sweet treats. Bring your own game or choose from our stack--we'll have games for all ages. Everyone welcome!
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Chess and Checkers Fridays, 3-5 p.m. Western Window Bay Library 21c -1175 Chapel Hills Dr. Join us for casual play, the boards will be out, ready for you and your friends to enjoy these two fabulous games. All are welcome.
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It's all a game : the history of board games from Monopoly to settlers of Catan
by Tristan Donovan
"Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It's All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations"
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The monopolists : obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game
by Mary Pilon
"With its origins rooted in one of the Wall Street Journal's most emailed stories, The Monopolists is the inside story of how the game of Monopoly came into existence, the heavy embellishment of its provenance by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most Americans who play Monopoly think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvania man who sold his game to Parker Brothers in 1935 and lived happily ever after on royalties. That story, however, is not exactly true. Ralph Anspach, an economist and refugee of Hitler's Danzig, unearthed the real story and it traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and to a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie. The Monopolists is in part Anspach's David-versus-Goliath tale of his 1970s battle against Parker Brothers, one of the most beloved companies of all time. Anspach was a professor fighting to sell his Anti-Monopoly board game, which hailed those who busted up trusts and monopolies instead of those who took control of all the properties. While he and his lawyers researched previous Parker Brothers lawsuits, he accidentally discovered the true history of the game, which began with Magie's Landlord's Game. That game was invented more than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly and she waged her own war with Parker Brothers to be credited as the real originator of the game. More than just a book aboutboard games, The Monopolists illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century--a social history of American corporate greed that reads like the best detective fiction, told through the real-life winners and losers in the Monopoly wars"
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Word freak : heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players
by Stefan Fatsis
Follows the author, who was originally just a curious reporter and now a Scrabble fiend, as he becomes an expert Scrabble player and delves into the realm of Scrabble culture, where he encounters a vitamin-popping standup comic and the three-time champion who plays by Zen principles, and realizes that Scrabble is more than just a game on many different levels. 25,000 first printing.
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The official Scrabble players dictionary
by Merriam-Webster
The book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource.
- More than 100,000 playable two-to-eight-letter words including more than 5,000 newly added entries.
- Includes variant spellings with expanded coverage of Canadian and British words.
- Updated to include new vocabulary such as fracking, hashtag, and selfie
- Main entries include a brief definition, a part-of-speech label, and inflected forms for fast, easy word validation
- Ideal for recreational and school use
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Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & dragons
by Michael Witwer
For the first time ever, the life of the godfather of all fantasy adventure games is chronicled, from his childhood in Lake Geneva to his untimely death in 2008, revealing his unwavering commitment to the power of creativity in the face of myriad sources of adversity.
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Pass go and collect $200 : the real story of how Monopoly was invented by Tanya Lee StoneIn the late 1800s lived Lizzie Magie, a clever and charismatic woman with a strong sense of justice. Waves of urban migration drew Lizzie's attention to rising financial inequality. Suddenly she had an idea: create a game about the landlord-tenant relationship. But Lizzie's initial game vilified the monopolist. Enter Charles Darrow--a marketer and salesman with a keen eye for what Lizzie's creation could become: an enticing board game, and a staple of family entertainment in households across America. Boldness, imagination, and ruthless competition combine in this riveting story that sets the record straight on the history of Monopoly's origins.
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You wouldn't want to live without gaming!
by Jim Pipe
Humans have always loved to play games, from dice games in ancient Iran to board games in the Victorian period. Today, video games are more popular than ever, with players arguing passionately why one console is better than another. Discover the many uses of games: how they can be a teaching aid, exercise our bodies and brains, stimulate our creativity, bring people together.
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Clue, the movie
Comic chaos ensues when six guests at Hill House, who are involved in murders of six others, are told they must kill Wadsworth, the butler, in order to avoid being implicated
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Jumanji
After twenty-six years of being trapped in a board game, a man-child is released from the game, only to be forced to play again
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Jumanji: Welcome to the JungleWhen four teenagers discover an old video game console and play it, they are transported into the jungle-themed game Jumanji and must escape using the skills of their selected avatars
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Family Game Night 3
Play 5 games of Clue, Twister, Life, Yahtzee, and Mouse Trap
Available on Wii or Xbox 360
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Pikes Peak Library District
P.O. Box 1579
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80901
(719) 531-6333ppld.org/ |
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