The Glass Bead Game. it's a game played by elite schools of mathematicians whose sole purpose in life is to perfect their mastery of the game, thus attaining to the ultimate status, while new generations are raised and schooled to expand the domain of the struggle...
It's even German! Also the most excruciatingly tedious book I've ever encountered. I'd say read, but I couldn't get through it. I wonder if I should have taken that as a sign that grad school wasn't for me.
A Carcassonne expansion, where you use tiles to form journal and conference papers, posters, and workshops enclosing as many grants and grad students as possible?
Google "scepter site:boargamegeek.com", you are feeling lucky.
It's a very thinly-veiled depiction of grad school. You take some classes, which give you knowledge that helps you develop lab techniques that speed up your ability to make pixie dust that you turn into conference papers. But be careful because you might get scooped (by a mirror). Near the end, those in the lead will be able to write journal articles that are worth far more. At the end, the best-published gets the tenure track job.
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Date: 2008-09-30 10:20 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magister_Ludi
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Date: 2008-10-01 07:25 pm (UTC)It's a very thinly-veiled depiction of grad school. You take some classes, which give you knowledge that helps you develop lab techniques that speed up your ability to make pixie dust that you turn into conference papers. But be careful because you might get scooped (by a mirror). Near the end, those in the lead will be able to write journal articles that are worth far more. At the end, the best-published gets the tenure track job.