Friday link love

It’s been a great week for me personally as I’ve been picked to be part of Team Geek at this year’s BGG.Con. Woohoo! I will be volunteering my time at the event (I had so much fun last year) and will get a snazzy BGG jersey with my name on it. You can get convention tickets here. It’s selling out quickly!

Anyway, it’s Friday, folks! I’ve rounded up some board-game related links and other fun things for you guys to enjoy.

— The Worst Board Games Ever Invented. The author writes “The worst games, for the most part, have one thing in common: luck.” A distaste for luck is what separates those who play eurogames vs. games such as Monopoly.

— Daniel Solis writes up a quick introduction to typography grids in graphic design, as it pertains to rule books for board games.

— Why many eurogames are inherently single-player games.

— Sixth Tribe Causes Identity Crisis. The meme accompanying this article cracks me up. I wrote about Five Tribes a few months back, and it still bugs me that it’s a four-player game. Why is it not five?! Now it’ll have six tribes!

— The first teaser is out for Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion’s web series Con Man, whose IndieGogo campaign launched this week and has already raised over $1.5 million for episodes.

— Table Flips You goes back to 1979 by playing the Star Trek Game.

— You can now play Cards Against Humanity online. We are all terrible, terrible people.

— Lastly, Happy Pi Day tomorrow! Time to make pies and celebrate! I’ll be having some folks over for Arkham Horror and pie-eating.