What Do You Remember From This Year?
To celebrate you, we put together a full night of trivia in a play-at-home format. Test your recall on the events of the last 11.75 months with your loved ones, pets, and strangers you yell at in the street. You can download the whole game at our website, including a beautiful slideshow, a sound round, and a printable answer sheet you can bring to your Boxing Day gathering.
The Friday Know-It-All Can See Your Future, Using Only a Pen and Paper
Today, the Friday Know-It-All welcomes guest writer Andy Sturdevant, proprietor of a fantastic biweekly mail subscription service for fans of pen-and-paper games called Paper Palace. Each edition of Paper Palace features an entertaining dive into the rules and history of a different pen-and-paper game, as well as a short essay about Andy’s own relationship to the game and experiences playing it. This week, we’re re-running one of my personal favorite installments of Paper Palace, devoted to the playground divination game MASH.
Short-Term Legends of the NBA
For every one of these athletes of iron, though, there are hundreds of others who got the briefest taste of professional sports glory and never got to drink from the cup again. Those stories don't get told nearly as often, but they're probably a lot more relatable to the real-life experiences of us working stiffs. With that in mind, I'd like to take a look into the short-lived careers of three players who can truthfully tell folks that they were in the NBA, and then hope that there aren't a lot of follow-up questions.
