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Article: It's raining, it's boring -- what to do? Let the games begin; Q&A; The (board) games people play.(NWWeekend)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: Connie McDougall; Special to The Seattle Times
As a schoolboy, Scott Cooper would sit with his buddies at recess, back to the wall, arranging marbles in patterns meant to entice passers-by. Like a carnival hawker, he'd invite kids to knock his marbles out of bounds. If they missed, he took their marble. If they didn't miss, they got his. "At an early age, I learned how to do cost-benefit analyses," Cooper says.
Years later, while working at Microsoft creating video games, he was introduced to the unique challenges of European board games and the experience was transformative. After leaving that job, he and former co-worker Brian Bennink fell upon ...