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[fflo]

In today's trivia contest I failed to name the popular game whose board is pictured here (click for bigger):

         

I guessed it involved trains, and went with "Overland Express," which if it is a board game would be a helluva coincidence.

I saw the film Rawhide yesterday.  It's set at a stagecoach station.  Some actors I don't particularly like (Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward) are being held hostage there.  I like Edgar Buchanan, but he's killed off in the first reel.  The most absorbing thing about it is the face of young Jack Elam, at its drawn crazy best.  Apparently his one immobile eye was the result of a fellow boy scout, when Jack was 12, throwing a pencil at him (and the point landing you-know-where).  Ouch!  But he was an accountant before he was in the movies.  His accounting work got him into pictures.  You could look it up.

About time to go to work.  I had the morning off.  It rocks to have the morning off sometimes.

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[paperkingdoms]

It's Ticket to Ride. I may spend my time proctoring this exam considering the potential rules for Overlord Express, though.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oooh, OverLORD Express. That's a train of a different flavor.

[paperkingdoms]

Hee. I had to go back to see what you'd actually typed, because I'd totally read it as "overlord".

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yours is better. :)

[paperkingdoms]

My current thoughts on this are that each player draws a city to be the location of their base of operations for World Domination. And must connect their base of operations to various other locations on the map... perhaps everyone wants to reach NYC and Chicago and Miami and LA? And accomplishing that earns you a certain number of points.

But there are also points for, by the end of the game, being able to guess where each other player's base of operations is, and also points for having no one guess where yours is. So that sneakiness is also required / rewarded.