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...And The 2016 Wallet Game Design Contest Winners Are

Posted by Jason Tagmire on

Back in February, we announced a little contest asking board game designers for their best Wallet Game.  While we expected to receive about 20-30 entries, we were floored to receive 73 different games from designers around the US and the world. In May, we whittled down those pitches to 15 Finalists. You can read more about those finalists here.  We have spent the last few weeks playing through the finalists and are ready to announce them here. We would first like to thank all the judges that took time out of their lives to play the finalists and help us...

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Pretense was nominated for the Philly Geek Awards Game of the Year!

Posted by Jason Tagmire on

This is super exciting. Our little Pretense (the game night social metagame that comes packaged in a wallet), was nominated for the awesome Philly Geek Awards Game of the Year! This is beyond exciting.  The Philly Geek Awards is a black tie celebration of geekness, starting with things like games and movies and going deeper into science and events and social media and more. It's held at the Academy of Natural Sciences, a museum that I go way back with. I went there many times as a kid and young adult, and will be taking my kids soon enough know that...

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