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Word Play 2

Joshua Blackburn's sons' uninspiring English homework led to him inventing the game League of the Lexicon; and Thorny Games make language loss and alien language into creative play

This episode, and the next couple of episodes, are about word games! Today, Joshua Blackburn recounts how his sons' uninspiring English homework led to him inventing the language quiz game League of the Lexicon; and Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyal谋o臒lu of Thorny Games explain how they make topics like language loss and deciphering alien language into creative play.

Get the transcript of this episode, and find links to more information about the topics therein, at theallusionist.org/wordplay2.

Word Play part 1, featuring Leslie Scott from Oxford Games, is at theallusionsit.org/wordplay.

This episode was produced by Helen Zaltzman, with Martin Austwick of palebirdmusic.com.

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36 minutes