So, after listing over three hundred games, our next task is to pick our five favorite games, with the condition that the games can be demonstrated in a classroom setting. There's more to the assignment, analyzing the nature of the game, what makes it distinctive, and all that, but I won't bore you with those details.

Sifting through the full list in my head, I think I've settled on Fluxx, Cribbage, Zendo, and Bango (yeah, so we might have to go outside to demonstrate (and I'd need to borrow a wicked knife)) as my first three games. I'm still looking for a fifth, and I'm not married to Bango.

Am I missing something obvious? Not that your favorite is necessarily mine...

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Okay, ditching Bango in favor of Karen's and my movie game... Maybe Bango will stay as #5 if I don't think of a good alternative.

One thing that got me praise in the hopscotch assignment was my use of pictures. Now that I'm doing the movie game, I wish I had a photo of the paper tablecloth Emily and I made at Rio Grill in Carmel, covering the entire tabel with a couple hundred actors and movies, all latticed together in a huge Gordian neural net knot.