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Tonight on GeekNights, we consider yard games like Bocce, Cornhole, Horseshoes, and Badminton. These games share certain characteristics: they must be reasonably deep orthogames, have shallow learning curves, and provide contextual social opportunities yet not require them. Rym reviews Ingress (it's a Candy Box), and Scott takes a guess that Pandemic: The Cure doesn't fall too far from the tree. We posit on why anyone even bothers to play Pandemic. Rym has Google Glass.
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This game is awesome.
Looks like the game really took off in the Ohio area and spread out from there. There are a lot of people I work with from that area, and they introduced us to it back in 2006, saying it's something they'd been playing all of their lives. As far as I can tell, it's completely replaced horseshoes at this point.
As far as backyard games go, my brother and friends tended to play Cricket the most but using a tennis or rubber ball instead of a real cricket ball, we also used our wheelie bin as the wickets but drew the wickets on there.
I listened to that Queeblo song when you posted it on the TOTD Tumblr and boy was it a catchy tune. I didn't know what a 40 40 was till I looked it up. Probably the same quality beer as the low brow stuff here in Australia (Emu, VB, XXX, Swan etc.) but it is so cheap in the US.
I'll see if anyone is playing Ingress in Perth.