Purveyors of clever and entertaining games that also exercise minds, Denver-based, award-winning Funnybone Toys, inventors of the Disruptus innovation game and a long-time favorite of Cool Hunting, has recently released ANAXI, a fun, creative, flexible game that’s educational too. The game rewards enterprising minds and unique thought—the more creative and maybe even weird your answers are, the better. Used to kick off a team meeting …
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How Income Inequality Led to the Creation of Monopoly
While Monopoly may be the world’s best-known board game, the story behind its creation has long been shrouded in mystery—until now. A man named Charles Darrow is usually the one credited as the game’s inventor, but as it turns out, a typist named Lizzie Magie originally came up with Monopoly as a way to teach the public about income inequality and its disastrous nature. The …
DICK Card Game
An irreverent retelling of the whale of American literary classics
DICK is at once a provocative party game and a retelling of Herman Melville’s classic novel”Moby-Dick” or, “The Whale.” In a mash-up of literature and lowbrow humor, the game positions direct quotations from Melville’s often-suggestive text against a backdrop of contemporary culture. Players are invited to gather a half-dozen of their bosom friends and jointly plunge their harpoons into the ecstatic flank of delight metaphorically. …