Wizard Work, a card game I've developed with @chrisriddell50 for @betonmond, is now available to pre-order. It's a push-your-luck game about recruiting a team of wizards to meet the randomly-generated needs of fairytale clients. cyclingfish.bigcartel.com/pr…

Bottletops and fridge magnets and incomplete chess sets at the ready: Everything is a Game is out in the UK today. Written with @vivschwarz, it's a collection of 63 old and new games playable with things you probably already have in your house somewhere. hachette.co.uk/titles/vivian…

A book I wrote with @vivschwarz is out soon: rules for games that can be played entirely with household objects. A few classic parlour games and a lot of weird invented ones. Everything is a Game. Available on the 18th from wherever you get your books. hachette.co.uk/titles/vivian…

Write-up of a word game that I've been playing for a while: think of a word, then think of a way to navigate through all of its letters, where each move can be described by a word that starts with the letter that you're moving from. kevan.org/games/hackronym

My NaNoGenMo entry for 2021: a script to automatically convert Moby-Dick into a choose-your-own-adventure format. "To spit your last breath at thee, turn to page 710." kevan.org/nanogenmo/2021/

Launching a free print-and-play of a game design I've had rattling around for a while: describing a random word in terms of another, secret random word, while a rival team tries to work out what you're talking about. kevan.org/games/keyword

Good to see this: Hide&Seek's Boardgame Remix Kit, which I worked on in 2010, is now available as a free PDF download, for anyone who wants better things to do with an old boardgame right now.

Board Games To Create And Play, the game design doodle book I've made with @vivschwarz, is available to preorder. Add rules, doodles and household objects to a pad of blank boards to make games about anything. Out October 3rd from @PavilionBooks. pavilionbooks.com/book/board…

@vivschwarz "This is Victoria." "Hello Victoria."

Brighton is in the grip of an independent coffee shop intensifier ray, and workmen are felling Victorian lampposts at the West Pier. – at Brighton and Hove, England

So would it be possible to make a terrifying Prince Rupert's Drop dessert with molten sugar, or would it crystallise differently?

Blocking a draught by putting a key in a door and hanging a scarf from it. This deserves a Babel fish.

The interval at a Barry Cryer gig, and nobody else in the audience is checking their phone.

So you can play Liar's Dice with banknote serial numbers, but the UK denominations make the stakes a bit high.

Either a coincidence or the first wild sighting of weather-activated advertising, but an electronic ad on a bin has just made a "snow" pun.