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@dxdydz.northsky.social
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I make tabletop games. I live in BC. I post whatever I want to, I’m sorry. she/her

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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 12h
I decided that d4s should be more like d6s so I made these stubbier than usual barrel dice and they are perfect.
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
back on my nonsense 🎲✂️
A cauldron and the words stone soup on construction paper
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
Alright alright I fixed it
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
What can I say you’re a trendsetter and we merely sheep
Grid of games played: color, jam, draft cribbage, gin, rummy, backgammon, big apple flip seven magical athlete, Nana Tory Dory, one night werewolf quacks of Quedlinburg race to the bottom, sharp shooters, shoots, and ladders spotted killer and trickage
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
The best Halloween decoration
Bush tree thing with eyes and a wizard hat
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 16/10/2026
“This card is worth one point for every gray circle on it.
Grid illusion where grey dots appear in the intersections you aren’t looking at
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 16/10/2026
Allow us to sing you the song of our people…
Screenshot of original hamster dance page
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 15/10/2026
I have a problem
Meme of the mother helping the one child all the other drowns that has the one child new trick, taking designs. The struggling child is climber designs, and then the skeleton under the water is designs that aren’t card games.
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 14/10/2026
Since I’m drawing stuff anyway…
Doodle of a vampire and cowboy attire in front of a campfire and it says campfire vampire
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 14/10/2026
I included an abbreviated rules explanation on the box of my game Calculators labeled “for sickos” and just realized I missed the opportunity to lead harder into that. So I am rectifying that oversight
Sketchy doodle of a Calculator, whose buttons a sicko and it has an expression a bit like the sicko’s character and is saying yes ha ha ha ha yes
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sure, you've heard of The Game of the Goose, but have you heard of The Majestic Game of the Asiatic Ostrich??
Photo of the game of the asiatic ostrich, published in 1822, featuring 20 ostrich egg shaped spaces with people in them making a kind of figure 8 around a bird
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 13/10/2026
HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you
Drawing of a playing guard that has art resembling a pizza box and instead of a normal suit symbol, there is a dripping pepperoni pizza in the index of the card is P
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 12/10/2026
I designed Big Apple because my then-2yo wanted to join in when her big sister and I would play Golden Pig (itself a simplification of Scopa). Still gets requested from time to time.
Cards with colourful emojis on them
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 11/10/2026
this photo from Wikipedia is cool. these are limestone slabs used in early lithography, and this is an archive of them.
A bunch of square slabs of stone looking a bit like paving stones in shelves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Litography_archive_of_the_Bayerisches_Vermessungsamt.jpg
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 11/10/2026
I didn’t play a lot this week (many of these are async BGA games happening to finish this week). Played about 1/10th as much Draft Cribbage as I would like. I dunno if others will like it as much as me, but for my Gin-obsessed brain, it *hits*.
Grid of games played this week, in order all squared up draft cribbage gym, rummy prototype backgammon Belote brass Gacha trick kettle black Koi Koi love letter 99 Pipoca Rummy 500 Tannhauser Via Gladiola, Wabash Cannonball
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
this player aide is a trip, but the card art is S-tier
card that says for the new player collect the following cards, and then has a list that goes MURDER BOY TAXI CHU CHU PILOT HELLO STOP PRESSsix cards from the game Scoop, showing a kind of delightful stippled art style
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
I thought maybe whoever wrote this description on BGG was taking liberties, so I found the rules and ...nope.
screenshot of rules of the game that say, "As soon as no further entrances can be made, the player who holds Noah is at liberty to drown any babies in his hand whos eparents have entered the Ark. He does this by placing the baby face downwards on the table before him, saying, 'I drown the baby so-and-so.'"
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
yikes. I didn't go to sunday school, is that part of the story, or just some "fun" gameplay added for the kids?
screenshot of Noah's Ark Card Game from 1920, a highlighted excerpt from the game description reads: "place them into the Ark without their Baby. The Baby is now unable to join his parents in the Ark. The player holding the Noah card may 'drown' babies in his hand if the parents have entered the Ark. Drowned babies are kept in front of the player who drowned them as they score bonus points at the end."
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
The inkpad I bought sucks 😔
Test ink prints but they’re very spotty
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
Been carrying around this very official looking prototype lately, ensnaring unwitting players whenever the opportunity strikes
Plastic box from a deck of thrifted cards with a card from the game Rage visible with some dots drawn on it in sharpie
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 04/10/2026
has anyone ever found out what F.R.I.E.N.D.S stands for??
Logo from the long running TV show friends that has the word friends with periods between each of the letters
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ll be honest, I really don’t need any more books of game rules… And yet 🤷‍♀️
Bookshelf with books about games and collections of game rules including several that are only card games
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bought some
Three books, one about card games, a Vonnegut, and the 99pi book
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
i haven't tried this variant yet, and I completely forget why i was so convinced IT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE IDEA when writing this draft of the rules
screenshot of a rules doc section listing variants. One is "Always Pay My Debts" then there's THIS IS PROBABLY A TERRIBLE IDEA all caps and then Two Player
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
daybreak sadly coming out a hundred years too late to be played on airplane tables
black and white photo of a couple eating dinner on a plane, there is a waiter in a tux serving them, the table is large and has a white tablecloth
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
And of course, the unstated 11th and 12th reasons: if you cannot afford it or simply don't want it. That's cool too. Thanks for reading!
Box front art saying CALCULATORS and a drawing of a purple calculator on a yellow box.Back of game box, showing orange text on yellow background saying "Finally, a trick taking game where you must use the order of operations!"
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
1. It is a calculator-themed card game. The cards have drawings of (and I cannot stress this enough) CALCULATORS on them.
hand of three cards with calculators on them
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
On second thought not sure I want to. did not work out well for this girl
Girl burning alive in kids game and then two cats crying over her ashes
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meet the Struwwelpeter.
Screenshot of board game geek that shows a game from 1926
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reminds me of this Gahan Wilson comic
A bunch of people wearing Ns and bowing to a thing that says nothing and then the caption says is nothing sacred
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because I dont think I’ve posted this here: Biblically accurate dominoes
Dominoes with googly eyes replacing the pips
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gravy boat with gravy in it.
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ehhh. It’ll do. Not quite what it was in my mind, but it never is
Card back white line drawing of a street with the sun on one side and a moon on the other
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
The idea I had, doodled so I won’t forget
Pencil drawing of a card back that is mostly rotationally symmetric except the top half is daytime in the bottom half is nighttime there are the words all squared up across the middle and it’s kind of a street scene
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you’re in Boulder, this event sounds fun:
Collage tarot event being run in case W 250 building on Monday from 9 to 5
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
supplies came and final weigh-in will have to wait for later, but I *think* I might be under 50g for the whole shebang including envelope, which means I can send out this game using normal letter mail. 🎉
Some office supplies and bingo chips on a brown mailer
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
yep, I think these are pretty much done. now I just need to design the card backs!
hand of cards on a red background
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
finally finished putting all these doodles into their homes
screenshot of inkscape with several cards open, the cards have coloured backgrounds and small doodles on the faces
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
Printed some more giant icehouse.
Three pyramids that are blue and stacked on each other.
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 21/09/2026
More exciting than mine!
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
The back actually has a picture of the older (?) horizontal version
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
The moon was cool and I tried to take a photo through the binoculars. Did not work out.
Blurry photo of moon with power line mess in focus in foreground
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
I thought this package was going to be something else but instead it was this. Not complaining…
Games on a table specifically gazebo ferry, big top, psychic pizza deliveries, go to Ghost Town and bacon
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
I assembled a shed earlier this summer, and the spiders have found it now
Photo of some stuff on a shed floor, gardening glove stuff like that and there’s a funnel web and a spider in the photo as well
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
in other news, still plugging away at this one, too.
two cards a 10 and a 9 of fork/spoon with little doodles on them.
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 14/09/2026
I didn’t realize board game tables had reached $400 on Wayfair levels of commonplace
screenshotof wayfair.com. I’m showing a table with LEDs and a game vault for $400.
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 13/09/2026
already thinking about that... 😆
screenshot of a message from Discord where I mention wondering if it would be possible to Dwindle the game
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 13/09/2026
Tried with ink pad. Waaaay better actually.
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m sure I’m not the first to point out that this little Greek dude on this 600 BC vase looks like he’s delighted by your funny post
Crop of a Greek vase showing a boy using a wax ? tablet I’ve taken the liberty of editing the stylus out of the photo to make it look more like a computer
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Z @dxdydz.northsky.social · 12/09/2026
Couldn’t stop myself
Haus of Decline comic where a character has an idea lightbulb and then another and then too many and two onlookers say to each other (this part has been edited) “they started designing games” “poor thing”
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