adventures in monopoly
Off to Virginia, but first, a puzzle:
I’m driving to Virginia today to visit my son. So I’ll be gone a couple of days, but the Adventures in Monopoly crew have been playing Scrabble, and came upon an interesting board position. So while I’m gone…. 1) What was the last piece placed? 2) In what order were the legal plays made? 3) … Read more
Adventures in Monopoly: It’s all about the Social
Thanks to @caffo for the inspiration. He posted up a picture that said “For the first time in my life I was happy. Then I realized it was all the caffeine,” with a dozen cups of coffee. So I was going to have the AiM crew do a podcast, where they spent most of the … Read more
Adventures in Computer Science: Monopoly board computer
Yesterday, Bear was caught in a bind because he didn’t have a computer to run the Champions Online beta. He didn’t know that he was standing on a computer — the Monopoly board itself. Before World War II, computers weren’t machines, they were a profession. Rooms of people-computers, usually women, would perform calculation after calculation … Read more