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What a proud yet strange day. After 6 years of availability, we've sold our last copy of the first printing of Bring Your Own Book (crowdfunded in 2015). This means there are effectively no English editions for sale, as the Gamewright and Scholastic editions are out of print. 📭

A name for a cat: "RADIANT HEAT MANIFOLD," Manny for short. 😽 From The City of Folding Faces by Jayinee Basu. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames #catnames

@libraryWallace @NWC_Library You are very welcome! We're glad to hear whenever the game finds a new gaggle of eager readers. 🤘🥳📚🎉🃏

Newly discovered yesterday 'Bring Your Own Book' game! "The game of books & borrowed phrases" Trialled in year 7 & 8 #BookClub @NWC_Library & I think a winner 🥳 Easy to pick up & play anywhere, thanks for the free, downloadable resources @DoBetterGames bringyourownbook.com

@THSbookworm @thomashardye @Schoolbookclubs A lovely box and laminated cards? This is the most impressive treatment for the print-and-play edition that we've seen. 😍📚🎉🃏

Impromptu game of Bring Your Own Book for Year 10 Book Club after school today. Someone picks a card and reads the prompt then everyone has to find the best example in their own book ie something written on a tombstone @thomashardye @Schoolbookclubs #BookClub It’s fun. 😀

A sentence that's twice as dramatic when read slowly: "A 'remarkable' increase in flatulence and a 250 per cent increase in the volume of stools." From A Game of Birds and Wolves by Simon Parkin. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames #pottyhumor

@JoyKirr @TerriEichholz @lindsayannlearn @TCEA @Aricfoster2 Indeed, Game of Quotes is a reimplementation of Bring Your Own Book, hence the similarities. 😉

@TerriEichholz @lindsayannlearn @TCEA @DoBetterGames @Aricfoster2 Did you see Terri's post? It's just like "Game of Quotes!"

Encourage close reading of novels while your students play the FREE version of Bring Your Own Book. #ELA #Gifted #Teaching #Students H/T @LindsayAnnLearn and @TCEA @DoBetterGames engagetheirminds.com/2022/11/21/bri…

I want to go to there.

From here to there. 💻➡🏘 (Screenshot from a round of Twindle for context.)

Well, this answers that question! 😁 #Twindle #kindalike #multiplayer #Wordle #remixedin #Townscaper

This has got me wondering what it would look like to export a full game of Twindle.us as side-by-side Townscaper villages of different rows for each round. 🤔 (Right now, you can't export the detailed results of a Twindle game as anything, but still...hrm.)

There are some killer QTs and replies to this, by the way. twitter.com/BicycleLobby/s…

"Finally. It was started at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected." Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

Here for this content.

@MtGSPete Not exactly what you're looking for, but now every time I see this movie get referenced, I think of Resistor. 🖥🟦🚀🟥🖥 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1695…

@beforeyouplay_ Depending on your solo-play and mechanic interests (narrative, puzzle solving, high score chase)... - Super Mega Lucky Box (Gamewright) - The Light in the Mist (PostCurious) - Hardback (Fowers Games) - Parks (Keymaster Games) - Tiny Epic Galaxies (Gamelyn Games)

Yessss! Anyone have solo board game recommendations? 😉

@MsFuentesELAR If they ever want to play a head-to-head match, you can try out Twindle: twindle.us 😃💬💻🗨😃 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩

A little Friday #wordle for English II #elar #teachersoftwitter #teachertwitter #classof2025

@KNBR If they're announcing together, they could go head-to-head in a game of Twindle! 😃🎙💻🎙😃 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 twindle.us

Dave Flemming spent an entire half inning explaining Wordle to Jon Miller. Here are the highlights:

@DWP_Blog Didn't make it to GenCon, but my package for Light In The Mist arrived last week. Excited to have some bite-sized puzzle adventure fun times with the crew: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3415…

#gencon haul, minus For Science! which I already had. Not a huge pile, but curated. Couldn’t get Framework or a couple others that come out this fall. What did you bring home?

@DWP_Blog No need to be desperate! 😁 The English language print-and-play edition is free on our website: bringyourownbook.com English retail editions are all out of print, but we're always looking for a new publishing partner. 🔎 Feel free to mention this to any cool pubs you meet. 😉

@DoBetterGames I just recently learned of this game and desperately want to play!

"Less Than 2%" : The name of a popular new indie band. Cannot recommend playing Bring Your Own Book with ketchup packets...but that band could be fresh. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames

Text from a book about conspiracy theories: "These dark feelings will come to the fore as soon as the drug of grandiosity fails." From The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller. #BYOBook #BringYourOwnBook #bookgames Maybe not a crowd pleaser because of the #darkthoughts 😁