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Seven Games in Silica

The topic of AI/ML (machine learning) is getting a lot of buzz right now. That makes this book review pretty timely. I. Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder is a book that came out this year. It is about board and card games, the seven alluded to

(Rocket)ship in a bottle

It's hard to believe we're already a month into 2020. This post looks back at something I built as a Christmas gift for some kids. Bottle rockets are a fun toy. Unlike most rockets, they don't rely on combustion. This makes them safer to

Go Proverbs

The past month I've been really busy with my job, so I haven't had much time for blogging. This post is another [https://danbscott.ghost.io/dominion-strategy/] short one on strategies for a board game. I do have some good ideas for a few more in-depth

Dominion Strategy

As the days get shorter and colder, it's a good time of year to play board games. One of my favourites is Dominion [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion] and for this post I decided to read up on some strategies for it. Dominion is a card game

Storytelling Outside the Box

This post comprises a board game review and an interactive map I made, joined by the common theme of non-traditional storytelling. Rogues to Riches is a story-telling board game, created by Sam Fraser [http://growgiantgames.com/] in Halifax [http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2014/08/07/rogues-to-riches-for-halifax-board-game-developer.html] . I

Get on Board in Catalina

This post is a brief review of a board game I got recently. I backed the campaign for the board game Privateer [http://ensigniagames.com/products/privateer], on Kickstarter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/privateer/privateer-0], back in December 2013. After a 3 year wait, it finally arrived, and had

Ticket to Ride's Adjacency Matrix

As promised [https://danbscott.ghost.io/dont-be-bored-game/], here is a post analyzing strategy for a board game: Ticket To Ride [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHmf1bau9xQ]—one of my favourites. Analysis I had fun learning a bit more about graph theory and using it for the calculations in this

Don't be bored, game

This is a brief, general post about board games. In the future, I plan to write some posts about specific board games and their strategies. I've previously written about the game of Go [https://danbscott.ghost.io/degrees-of-go/] that I enjoy playing. But I also enjoy playing other

Degrees of Go

Recently I started playing "Go" (known as baduk (바둑) in Korean and as wéiqí in Chinese). I started playing on an app [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.aifactory.gofree&hl=en] on my phone, then made my own board (shown below). Go