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“A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt.
'Really?' said Vetinari, raising his eyebrows. 'Should not he be trying to learn his own?”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.”
― Trevanian, Shibumi

“Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:â€� Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.”
― W. Patterson

“Well, what is there to do around here, anyway?"

"Well, here we have World Domination; it builds strategy skills—you can play as a dog, a boot, or a trebuchet."
Bewilder builds language and observation skills..."

"I said I wanted to play VIDEO games."

"Video games are a waste of time."

"And board games AREN'T?
Why do you even have these? No one lives here but you!"

"I used to have some henchmen. Game night was a big hit."

"Henchmen? What happened to them?"

"I can't work with mercenaries. It's impossible to build trust when they only care about their paychecks. "

"Oooh. Let me guess. The Institution paid them off?"

"I don't want to talk about it.”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

“YES! a ten!
...eight...nine...ten!"

"Landing you in the Enchanted Forest, which is MY domain.
600 gold, please."

"My Scottie dog will not pay your tyrannical toll!"

"Nimona... "

"He rallied the oppressed woodland creatures and organized a revolt!"

"It just so happens I am a just ruler and am greatly admired by all my subjects."

"Squirrels scale the walls of the castle and bears batter down the gates!
Bloody chaos ensues!
The Enchanted Forest is ours!"

"I'm taking the 600 gold anyway."

"HIGHWAY ROBBERY! "

"Plus another 600 for damages.”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

“Forgetting herself entirely, Pandora let her head loll back against Gabriel's shoulder. "What kind of glue does Ivo use?" she asked languidly.
"Glue?" he echoed after a moment, his mouth close to her temple, grazing softly.
"For his kites."
"Ah." He paused while a wave retreated. "Joiner's glue, I believe."
"That's not strong enough," Pandora said, relaxed and pensive. "He should use chrome glue."
"Where would he find that?" One of his hands caressed her side gently.
"A druggist can make it. One part acid chromate of lime to five parts gelatin."
Amusement filtered through his voice. "Does your mind ever slow down, sweetheart?"
"Not even for sleeping," she said.
Gabriel steadied her against another wave. "How do you know so much about glue?"
The agreeable trance began to fade as Pandora considered how to answer him.
After her long hesitation, Gabriel tilted his head and gave her a questioning sideways glance. "The subject of glue is complicated, I gather."
I'm going to have to tell him at some point, Pandora thought. It might as well be now.
After taking a deep breath, she blurted out, "I design and construct board games. I've researched every possible kind of glue required for manufacturing them. Not just for the construction of the boxes, but the best kind to adhere lithographs to the boards and lids. I've registered a patent for the first game, and soon I intend to apply for two more."
Gabriel absorbed the information in remarkably short order. "Have you considered selling the patents to a publisher?"
"No, I want to make the games at my own factory. I have a production schedule. The first one will be out by Christmas. My brother-in-law, Mr. Winterborne, helped me to write a business plan. The market in board games is quite new, and he thinks my company will be successful."
"I'm sure it will be. But a young woman in your position has no need of a livelihood."
"I do if I want to be self-supporting."
"Surely the safety of marriage is preferable to the burdens of being a business proprietor."
Pandora turned to face him fully. "Not if 'safety' means being owned. As things stand now, I have the freedom to work and keep my earnings. But if I marry you, everything I have, including my company, would immediately become yours. You would have complete authority over me. Every shilling I made would go directly to you- it wouldn't even pass through my hands. I'd never be able to sign a contract, or hire employees, or buy property. In the eyes of the law, a husband and wife are one person, and that person is the husband. I can't bear the thought of it. It's why I never want to marry.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“Last year, Pandora, who had always loved toys and parlor amusements, had designed a board game. With Mr. Winterborne's encouragement, she had filed for a patent and intended to produce and distribute the game. Mr. Winterborne owned the largest department store in the world, and had already agreed to place an order for five hundred copies. The game was a guaranteed success, if for no other reason than that there was hardly any competition: Whereas the board game industry was flourishing in America, thanks to the efforts of the Milton Bradley company, it was still in its infancy here in Britain. Pandora had already developed two more games and was almost ready to file patents for them. Someday she would earn enough money to make her own way in the world.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“Checkers is for tramps.”
― Paul Charles Morphy

“Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn.”
― Ob Nixilis (Magic: The Gathering)

“A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Above all, a game is an opportunity, an easy- to-understand instrument by which context is defamiliarized just enough to allow what Huizinga famously refers to as his “a magic circleâ€� of play to occur.”
― Mary Flanagan, Critical Play: Radical Game Design

“Chess does not only teach us to analyse the present situation, but it also enables us to think about the possibilities and consequences. This is the art of forward-thinking.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“Have you ever seen a world fall to its knees? Watch, and learn.”
― Ob Nixilis (Magic: The Gathering

“We were watching a battle, but it took clean forms.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go

“Life is like a boardgame. Advancing forward is the key.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“To develop a long-term relationship with a board game is to tease out the intricacies of all the different ways it can nudge you and shape the way you approach a variety of situations and possible interactions with people.”
― Eric Thurm, Avidly Reads Board Games

“The special thing about games, and tabletop games in particular, is the way they actively train you to think from within their rules. Other forms of art do this too, but in a more roundabout way that requires a certain sensitivity and willingness to taken in by the television show you're watching or the book you're reading. With games, it's a prerequisite. If you don't think the way the game wants you to think, at least a little bit, you're not really playing the game at all.”
― Eric Thurm, Avidly Reads Board Games

“Board games
These are a great way to interact with others while still "getting out of your head" and not talking about anything too important.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Good old monopoly, training innocent children to become landlords since 1903”
― Juno Dawson, Stay Another Day

“The 32 Society by Stewart Stafford

Fight to the last piece, they said,
Icons of state bring up the rear,
Grunt pawn's first blood duty,
Let the board's body count commence.

Equine knight in dog-legged battle,
Warrior bishop's angular support,
Scorpion's claw pincer movement,
Then, the trap slams mercilessly shut.

The field wiped clean of combatants,
The aristocracy's barren playground,
Royals tour their chequered court,
Pieces reassembled as war restarts.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford