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The secret codes arrive

Mar 04, 2010 No Comments by

2 pages of tightly typed codes have arrived in my snail mail. Magic. More soon.

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Champions League inspiration

Oct 24, 2009 No Comments by

Amazing tournament has just ended with NSW walking away from the first Champions League (cricinfo link) with a check of $2.5 million. Too bad the Aussie dollar is currently almost at parity with the US as that woulda bought quite a few VBs back in the day. That aside the tournament showed what a truly [...]

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Graveyard or open source?

May 25, 2009 No Comments by

I sometimes think of my ever growing collection of cricket board games as something of a cricket game graveyard. Rarely do games get reprinted and those that do are mostly aimed at kids. So Test Match and all its variants are probably going to get re-printed for ever more. Most games get printed once, sell [...]

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New cricket game nears alpha stage

May 14, 2009 1 Comment

I’ve been in touch with Nigel Collier, who is developing a new cricket board game. He’s let me know he is still a little way off releasing the game for beta, so we are keeping the names of everyone who has volunteered and will be in touch soon. Anyway, I’m happy to say I’ve seen [...]

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Prototype cricket game nearing completition – play testers wanted!

Apr 13, 2009 1 Comment

Here’s a chance to play test a new cricket board game! I received an email from Nigel Collier, the fellow responsible for the excellent Wicketz Advanced Rules which I’ve posted on this group, and he’s nearing completition of his own unique cricket game. While I can’t yet share the visuals of the board and cards, [...]

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