Ayar: Children of the Sun

"A quipu usually consists of cotton or camelid fiber cords, and contains categorized information based on dimensions like color, order and number. The Inca, in particular, used knots tied in a decimal positional system to store numbers and other values in quipu cords. Depending on its use and the amount of information it stored, a given quipu may have anywhere from a few to several thousand cords. [...]

Inca administration used quipus extensively for a variety of uses: monitoring tax obligations, collecting census records, keeping calendrical information, military organization, and potentially for recording simple and stereotyped historical "annales"."

-Wikipedia

SVWAG's Pickaxe stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t8XLnJha-E

Games Played Last Week:

00:55 -Marvel Dice Throne Missions (Gavan Brown & Nate Chatellier, Roxley, 2025)

05:03 -It's a Wonderful World (Frédéric Guérard, La Boîte de Jeu, 2019)

09:03 -The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game (Bryan Bormueller, Office Dog, 2025)

12:03 -Corporate America (Teale Fristoe, Nothing Sacred Games, 2013)

15:23 -Tidal Blades 2: Rise of the Unfolders (Tim Eisner and Ben Eisner, Druid City Games, 2024)

18:03 -Captain's Gambit: Kings of Infinite Space (AC Atienza, Alvin Lee, and Mitchell Loewen, Cloudfall Interactive Studios, 2020)

23:51 -Lacuna (Mark Gerrits, CMYK, 2023)

27:12 -Stellar Conflict (James Ernest & Tom Jolly, Artipia Games, 2015)

29:48 -Figment (Wolfgang Warsch, CMYK, 2025)

31:53 -Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester (Changhyun Baek, Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, Stefano Luperto, and Antonio Tinto, DiceTree Games, 2023)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

35:43 Reprint of At the Gates of Loyang

36:09 Fat Bear week comes to its climax! https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

37:19 The Hobbit: There and Back Again roll-and-write by Reiner Knizia

37:42 Dogs of War reprint: controversy over hats

38:38 Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game

39:50 Cross-Bronx Expressway by Non-Breaking Space and GMT Games

41:26 Cranio expansion pack on crowdfunding Oct. 1st: Barrage, Rats of Wistar, Golem

42:09 Feature Game: Ayar: Children of the Sun (Mandela Fernandez-Grandon & Fabio Lopiano, Osprey Games, 2025)

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