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The Foxer

Tonight we're christening the defoxing annexe's hexagonal floor tiles. At 1930hrs Roman and myself will commence a game of Spaghetti, an Old West miniatures wargame driven by Snap-like card play. The actual gunfight segment of a session is usually done and dusted in under five minutes. You spend most of your time moving 54mm gunslingers around the map, engaging in brinkmanship with tension-building/dissipating cards like “Squeaky Weathervane”, “Annoying Fly” and “Languorous Fart”.

Last week's theme: The Immortal Game (defoxed by AFKAMC)

aQueen (Stugle)
bThe Strand (Stugle, Shiloh)
cBishop (AFKAMC)
dImmortal (unsolved)
eBd6! (unsolved)
fSacrifice (All is Well)
gRooks (Rorschach617)
h Adolf Anderssen (Shiloh)
i Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (mrpier)
jThe Great Exhibition (Shiloh)

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Foxer Fact No.506

More than half of the mosaic floor foxers discovered to date were found within the same Pompeii villa. Archaeologists believe that the short corridors linking the Casa del Volpe's six defoxing rooms may once have housed puzzle solutions in the form of small bronze statues. Such figurines certainly existed elsewhere. Vario's 'The Lambs' begins with two mischievous children switching solution statuettes in an opulent Rome residence.

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Tim Stone: A vereran PC games journalist, Tim has been covering simulation, strategy and management games in print and online for over 30 years. At Rock Paper Shotgun, he was the writer of The Flare Path, a weekly column, from 2011 until 2022.
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