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The new Jumbo Bananagrams is now out! Buy it from Amazon through this affiliate link. Polly-vous Bananagrams? French Bananagrams! Twitter Posts Tweets by bananagrammer. Banana graph. Search this blog and pages I've linked to. Results appear at the top of this page. Every player has their own board. To accommodate new letters, you can rearrange your whole board if you like. In this way, the game progresses non-linearly.
It feels less neat. JD: I sort of expected every new disruption in life to fit into the patterns I had already established. I was uncomfortable with anything that challenged my established model, and I sometimes agonised over how to stretch the puzzle pieces to make them fit.
The Bananagrams concept seemed to give me permission to refactor a few things in adjusting to disruptions, and that reduced the anxiety I experienced. L: This is really interesting for me. But this is usually done by examining how players have played the game, not as here, by using how the game itself works as an analogy.
How has the insight you have pulled from the experience of playing these two games, been useful for you practically in these difficult times? JD: Yes, thinking about the rulesets driving different existing games has helped me think outside of the games box a little! Before lockdown, I was working on the early stages of an engineering project unlike any I had encountered before. What makes it different is that it involves stages of surface and sub-surface construction over several decades, and it is impossible to know all the factors that will affect the design in advance.
This means that the design has to be extremely dynamic, and indeed some parts may have to be redesigned and rebuilt depending on what is discovered under the ground. While playing Bananagrams one evening, the analogy first occurred to me: I am rather more used to Scrabble-type projects where the design and construction progresses steadily through clearly planned stages, always adding to what has been done before.
The new project was far more like Bananagrams, where you might chuck in all the letters to try a new arrangement at any stage. Until the analogy occurred to me, I was resistant to a different way of working, but somehow the games gave me permission to think differently — to have a different set of perfectly valid project rules. JD: I have shared the concepts with my colleagues, and initially there were many nodding heads as they thought about it.
I wrapped the concepts in new working procedures that build extensive change management into the design process. Well, THAT was satisfying. Also, being a serious enough Scrabble player to really know your 2-letter words really makes it less fun, because so often you can just take whatever letters you just opened up and add them onto your grid as 2-letter-words, particularly given that you can play up and left not just down and right.
Oh, I picked up an A and a T? I would say the lack of game-enforced interaction is a bit of a downside. It can be bothersome to have a great set-up but not really be able to talk about it with neighbors if someone else progresses the game for you. I see the best part is the thing MaxTheVool liked least.
Anyone can potentially win until the winner is determined.
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