An interesting variant on this, which is also pretty easy for kids to understand (heck, even my 3-year-old has played it) is called Fluxx.
It's sold by Looney Labs, and it's a card game in which each card changes the rule of the game. There is an ultimate winner (though it can take hours -- or scant minutes -- to win), but you've really done nothing independently to win or lose, it's more based on luck.
from the Oops! Hope my employer didn't log that! dept.
FCLymond writes Extending on the Scores vs. Hooter's case, the Nightlife News reports (cover charge required, under 21 not allowed) that a Manhattan nightclub owner named "Tony the Deuce" has forbidden "his girls" from using 'butts to harvest up-for-some-action prospects from audience members. The theory's that inviting a customer upstairs for some "private action" infringes on the owners right to charge $10 for a bottle of Bud on the main floor. (Question: Would lap dances also be objectionable, because the recipient is unable to get up and saunter over to the bar while receiving one?)
I'm surprised Marvel and DC haven't jumped on the internet in a much bigger way as a distribution channel. The whole challenge these firms face is how to bring kids back to comics -- the traditional distribution channels are clearly broken, since kids can't by comics anywhere they might actually be shopping with their parents. Nobody wants to take their kids to a comics shop, with the Simpsons-like freak behind the counter, but there are few other places to buy comics -- not at CVS, grocery stores, etc.
Marvel and DC could reach out directly to kids who increasingly spend time on the 'Net, repurposing their comics into some format that would at least get kids interested in the characters.
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It's sold by Looney Labs, and it's a card game in which each card changes the rule of the game. There is an ultimate winner (though it can take hours -- or scant minutes -- to win), but you've really done nothing independently to win or lose, it's more based on luck.
Loads of fun.
FCLymond writes Extending on the Scores vs. Hooter's case, the Nightlife News reports (cover charge required, under 21 not allowed) that a Manhattan nightclub owner named "Tony the Deuce" has forbidden "his girls" from using 'butts to harvest up-for-some-action prospects from audience members. The theory's that inviting a customer upstairs for some "private action" infringes on the owners right to charge $10 for a bottle of Bud on the main floor. (Question: Would lap dances also be objectionable, because the recipient is unable to get up and saunter over to the bar while receiving one?)
Marvel and DC could reach out directly to kids who increasingly spend time on the 'Net, repurposing their comics into some format that would at least get kids interested in the characters.
Just a thought.