News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
MEMPHIS, TN—Local man Quinton Parker went to a friend’s house Friday afternoon, ready to finally play a skill-based board game perfect for strategic masterminds like himself. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the game because upon his defeat the board game suddenly transformed into a game of random chance.
“I just don’t understand—all of my decisions were genius and masterful while I was winning,” said Quinton Parker. “But the moment I was defeated, I realized it was just a complicated coin toss, nothing more.”
His opponent said he thought he remembered making multiple in-game decisions that led to his success, but apparently it was “all luck” and “the winner was decided at the start.”
Quinton explained that despite planning ahead and making strategic, tactical troop placements and calculated risks, everyone might as well have been playing Candy Land the whole time, and no skill whatsoever was involved.
“This game is entirely based on luck,” he said. “We might as well have flipped a coin and called it a day.”
Go here to read the rest. Go here to read a manual of a game that I am currently playing. Yes, I really am a geek.
Don, do you know of George Robert “Bob” Dekle Sr., or have you met him? You and he would seem to be close cousins.
1) He is an attorney and former prosecutor and law professor
2) He is known for devising a number of variant chess and shogi games. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Dekle_Sr.#Chess
3) He wrote the book The Case against Christ: A Critique of the Prosecution of Jesus
I do not know him Tom. He sounds like an interesting gentleman.
Ah, just saw he also wrote Abraham Lincoln’s Most Famous Case: The Almanac Trial. Another similarity with you.
Here’s his blog: http://bobdekle.blogspot.com/