You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don't know the other players, you can't see them, and you can't communicate with them. The game you are in is called 'Greed!', and is straightforward to explain. You are asked to write down a whole dollar amount in the range $1 - $1,000,000…
It's that time of year again when everyone is pulling out their great big boxes of outdoor Christmas lights and decorating their houses for all to see. As ever, some are just pure tack look it, whilst others show a little bit of class and actual decorative style. But NONE I've ever seen have been converted into a game. Yes …
Well, the power of the South Africans on the internet has been proven. We're taking your women, jobs and now board games too.
The big push by various South African bloggers, me included, to get the most beautiful city in the world - Cape Town - onto the World Edition of Monopoly has paid off. Cape Town rocketed from not even…
Voting is over for the main contenders in the "Monopoly Here & Now Edition" online "vote-athon" and thanks to some great publicity by fellow South African bloggers (here, here, here, here, here and me) and Facebook users, I think Cape Town is sure to be on the new board.
It's now time to cast your votes for my hometown, Johannesburg, in…
Looks like everyone is taking heed of the South African blogs and voting for Cape Town. Check it out, up to 4th already.
Keep up your daily votes and who knows, maybe Cape Town will come out tops. Oh, and don't forget to nominate "Johannesburg" for your wildcard choice. It's up to 9th now.
Hasbro, the makers of Monopoly, is launching a new "Here & Now World Edition" and is inviting everyone around the world to vote for the greatest cities around the globe. The 22 cities with the highest worldwide votes will make it onto one global Monopoly board.
At the moment it's looking like a "Who's Who" of European capitals, with the odd…
Not satisfied with the spiralling debt of UK citizens, Parkers, the UK maker of Monopoly has dispensed with using paper money in the game in favour of a new modern debit card system. Now players can use their debit card to buy Mayfair, collect rent and pay fines. Whilst certainly keeping with the times, I can't help but feel this …
You'll never guess what I found today - a game called "Simbabwe". It's works just like Sim City and The Sims work, but with a slight difference. Instead of building everything from scratch, it's a game...
...where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Bounce around the map plundering farms, denying…
