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Long ago, in my games-master days, we took our team of young tykes to a bigger school for a cricket match.

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Long ago, in my games-master days, we took our team of young tykes to a bigger school for a cricket match.

[incentives] or one size fits all 2009

And he might, in sheer selfprotection, have accepted the position and degenerated into a mere licensed buffoon, if some games-master at Eton had not discovered that he was a brilliant natural cricketer.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

Harb joined him, looking down into the little twenty-seven cubic meter “repeater” tank in the corner, by which the big games tank out in the Rec room could be monitored for “games-master” games, or just for kibitzing.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

Harb joined him, looking down into the little twenty-seven cubic meter “repeater” tank in the corner, by which the big games tank out in the Rec room could be monitored for “games-master” games, or just for kibitzing.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

Harb joined him, looking down into the little twenty-seven cubic meter “repeater” tank in the corner, by which the big games tank out in the Rec room could be monitored for “games-master” games, or just for kibitzing.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

Harb joined him, looking down into the little twenty-seven cubic meter “repeater” tank in the corner, by which the big games tank out in the Rec room could be monitored for “games-master” games, or just for kibitzing.

THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 'J ifsome games-master at Eton had not discovered that he was a brilliant natural cricketer.

Clouds of Witness Sayers, Dorothy L. 1927

And then came the day when old nurse dressed him in his best – a suit of cut velvet, purple slashed with gold-colour, and a belt with a little sword to it, and a flat cap – and Master Henry, the games-master, took him in a little boat to a gilded galley full of gentlemen and ladies all finely dressed, who kissed him and made much of him and said how he was grown since the fever.

Harding's Luck Edith 1909

The idea of making hidden notes on a map and having a sort of games-master like player (in this case the werewolf) giving out information as it goes along is not new, but for some reason the noting down of it on a paper map adds a certain something to the game experience - almost as if there were hikers, stumbling through the woods, making desperate scribbles on their trail map as they come across clues in the depth of the forest., but if you appreciate the news, previews, reviews and other material posted on Boardgame News, please consider the designers didn't forget to leave some interesting decision making out of the mix, particularly for the human players.

Boardgame News 2009