Monday 25th March 2024, 4.50pm (day 4,596)
It was a tense one, but I think Jack (on the left and playing white) just nicked it in the end.
The backgammon contest
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Tag Archives: dice
An invasion of Russia
Sunday 12th April 2020, 2.50pm (day 3,153)
I imagine that, worldwide, a few board games are being dragged from the dusty corners of cupboards where they have resided for some years. Or in the case of this Campaign game, decades.
Dice master
Sunday 29th July 2018, 7.35pm (day 2,530)
On the wettest day for months, and trapped in the house, Joe initiates his parents into bizarre Dice Man-style games of chance, in which the family fortune teeters on the edge of a d20. The wine is Clare’s.
Seminar at UCL (with big dice)
Thursday 9th June 2016, 2.00pm (day 1,750)
Seeing as these are places I hang out in professionally it is unsurprising that a lot of university campuses have made it onto the blog in some form or another: over 20 by now. Here’s another one, University College London, to where I travelled today to attend this seminar on digital literacy. With big dice, used for an audience participation game of snakes and ladders, if you really want to know.
It’s day 1,750 of the blog, three-quarters of the way to my second thousand pictures. If I keep going — and I may as well — I’ll hit that milestone on 14th February 2017.
Being 42 