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We made a quick stop to drop off some mail by the 7-11 near my apartment last weekend, and have some chicken at our regular spot.  When I got out of the car I immediately saw this piece of sidewalk art ... I am fascinated by how many different kinds of hopscotch boards I have seen drawn up in the last few years, but this one is easily the most creative. First, it has "follow the math problem", which is a very progressive STEM theme.  Then you hop onto 3 crayons, a notebook and two apples, ending on a "Happy School Year" finish line.   It doesn't look like it was scuffed by a lot of feet, but the art is so well done, I thought I would share the anonymous work here.  Hop hop.  It's nice to see some children motivated to get back to class. Here's another hopscotch board from the same patch of sidewalk back in May: This time it's Follow the Vines, Jump Over the Bunnies, then 1-2 flowers, 3 is some kind of box, 4 is a butterfly with "Follow the bunny...

We picked up the Deluxe Edition of 221-B Baker Street and gave it a test run.  I've known about this one for a few years now, and all the expansion packs that add 10 or 20 new cases each.  This box had 200 cases. As we played it, we got an odd vibe.  You roll dice and try to get to locations that have clues.  You read the clues from the casebooks, maybe jot down some notes, then roll dice to get back to 221-B Baker Street to give your best guess.  But ... played together as a team, the board and dice serve no real point.  It just randomizes which clue card you read next.  That's it.  We could have just stayed home, picked random clue cards and propose our solutions without rolling dice at all. I suppose this could get interesting if we wanted to compete against each other, or if there was another team playing.  As it was, we wondered why we didn't just watch the next episode of Elementary instead. I did not miss the irony that the designer's ...