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I recently recommended a daily online game called Raddle. Now I have another one that's pretty fun. It's from the Boston Globe, and it's called Align. Envision a five-by-five square of letters. Each "line" of that square reading across or down forms a word (so there are 10 words total)....

Reading Steven Marsh's Daily Illuminator about making fake podcasts for game props got me thinking. I love using props. I'm the one who'll make fake newspaper articles or produce torn scraps of secret messages – you name it. I even cooked a meal for my gaming group once. But some...

Dragons and drawing and dungeons, oh my! Deadly Doodles returns with a Second Edition, and it has more dungeon-crawling fun than ever before! This family-friendly Draw 'n' Draw game for one to four competitors challenges players of all ages to make their way through a dungeon. Flip over the path...

I admit that sometimes I feel like I'm not doing enough with my life. Well, that fear just got amped up to 11 by learning that experimental composer Alvin Lucier is still creating new music . . . despite the fact that he died in 2021. According to an article...

Many of you, like me, are fans of artist Rick Hershey, who does most of the illustration for The Fantasy Trip. Recently his family was touched by disaster that could easily have become tragedy. All four of his kids were in a car which was struck head-on by a median-crossing...

Happy National Space Day! Today we honor all things in the solar system, and possibly beyond. Initially established by Lockheed Martin in the late 1990s, Space Day was formalized by astronaut and Senator John Glenn. It's now recognized and celebrated internationally! We at Steve Jackson Games have always been fascinated...

Philip J. Reed is one of SJ Games' most distinguished alumni, and since he went freelance he has continued to produce Cool Stuff. His latest, Dungeon Slimes, is a Kickstarter project closing today. Don't miss out! It's a soda can, with green bubbly stuff on the inside (you could drink...

GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles makes the core GURPS magic system even more flexible and flavorful with the addition of thematic collections of spells – including secret spells. Expand those possibilities with GURPS Magical Styles: Traditional Styles. Written by GURPS mastermind Phil Masters (co-author of the Discworld Roleplaying Game, GURPS Thaumatology,...