The Latest Next Big Thing

[womzilla]

Literally.

"The Next Big Thing" is a weekly radio show produced by WNYC, the New York public radio station and syndicated by NPR to radio stations nationwide. It focuses on interesting people doing novel things.

The longest segment of the current show (9 April 2004) is a profile of John McCallion and Robin King, a married New York couple who are the boardgame editors of Games Magazine. I've known John and Robin since 1993, when I met them through the (now defunct) kNights of the Square Table, which was a group of play-by-mail gamers founded in the 1940s as a chess club but which had long featured chess variants and non-chess games by the time I joined it that year.

If you missed the show, you can delight in hearing John and Robin recount their lives together by listening to the show's archive (warning: RealAudio). The segment on John and Robin is "clip 4", so you can skip directly to it. It's 18:17 long.

And if you listen closely, you can hear a certain womzilla reading clues from a party game at a couple of points. ("1040. W-2. U2. 1099.") I am not identified during the segment, but I am thanked in the closing credits.

Comments

[sarah-ovenall.livejournal.com]

So what happens if your reason is correct, but not what they were going for?

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Excellent question. I don't remember what the rules say; I suspect it's along the lines of "if everyone agrees that the player is right, give them the points."