Games! Who doesn’t love them (and if you don’t, why are you spending so much time on Magic?). In our community, they’re a great way to unwind after an event, learn something at a conference, get to know each other better or keep us focused on our tasks at an event.

You like games? We’ve got them for you right here. Once a month every month. Some will be my own brews, others will be shamelessly stolen from other while crediting them for the effort. Maybe I can trick some people into guest posts.

Props to Kaja for making me rewrite this intro. For the original, lame introduction, keep reading.

But seriously, just skip to the game descriptions.

OK, you’ve been warned.

Welcome to Judge Games – a new blog about games in the judging world. 

I consider myself pretty well-versed in different board and card games. I also like to tinker with games and make up my own. One day I thought to myself – why not see what games can be adapted for the Magic Judge?

In this blog I plan to present games that can be used both in tournaments as team building or motivation during a long day. I also want to present some games that can used after the tournament or at a judge conference or meet-up. These will be adapted from commercial or traditional games and games totally made up. I plan to get in touch with other judges who have run games and put up their ideas here. On occasion I plan to review some games that while aren’t tied to Magic, are still a good game to play while we wind down after a tournament or conference.

Initially I thought to run this as a project, but projects come with overhead, commitments, dependencies, and an expectancy of deliverables. As I don’t have that enough time for that nor do I think the topics I will cover here fit the bill, I decided to settle on a blog.

I’m going to commit to at least six entries posted once a month. The first post will come a week after this one, to get into the groove.

See you on Wednesday, when time’s up.