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Future Of Humanity Update

The Bugle

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Bugle's Contributions to Human Cultural Advancement

All of our voluntary subscribers this week played key roles in the evolution of popular board games. Anthony Iacovone, who made Monopoly the popular game it is today by suggesting to its makers that it be set in modern London. Bjorn Leonard was the stickler who insisted that only correctly spelled words should be allowable in Scrabble. Nick Rosansky turned trivial pursuit into the smartasses game of choice by advocating printing questions on cards instead of using a cardboard Ouija board. Eric Tullis enhanced the popularity of the detective based intrigue of Cludo, also known as Cloo,. Simon Heep realised that acquisitive military imperialism was more fun as an after-dinner pursuit

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