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"I&amp;#39;m not talking about he kind of games you play where he calls you, and then you wait three days to call him back. Those games suck. I&amp;#39;m talking about the games where you match wit and skill, guts and strategy. How creative can you be with your games?\nPinterestFacebookMark Changizi recently wrote on Wired&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Geekdad&amp;quot; blog about his 8-year-old daughter asking him to play chess, which he&amp;#39;d recently taught her how to play. Except he discovered she&amp;#39;d completely reinvented the game, into &amp;quot;Plastic Animal Chess.&amp;quot;\n&amp;quot;She handed me a packet of papers\u2026an enumeration of the kinds of pieces to be used\u2026with what each kind of piece does,&amp;quot; Changize wrote.\n&amp;quot;At first the game was tedious, as we repeatedly looked up which kind of piece each animal was, and reminded ourselves of its power. But, to my surprise, within an hour we only rarely needed reminding, and it felt like we were playing a game--and I liked it.&amp;quot;\nThe details of the game seem pretty cool:\n&amp;quot;Her game was fresh and creative--it was different in ways that an adult steeped in chess would be unlikely to trespass. There was a &amp;quot;doctor&amp;quot; piece who gives invulnerability to any adjacent piece; a &amp;quot;replacer&amp;quot; piece that, if landed upon, permits the team to trade an existing piece for a taken piece; and &amp;quot;civilian&amp;quot; pieces who have no power, but serve to impede movement.&amp;quot;\nI love games, whether its chess or capture the flag, Cranium or Trivial Pursuit, Poker or strip Poker, but I love the idea that someone I&amp;#39;m playing with could get creative and make up her own.\nDo you and your guy have any games you&amp;#39;ve made up? What are the rules? Who wins?\nHave a question about Dating, Relationships, or Sex for Single John? Submit it here. Can be totally Anonymous!\nMore on Dating at Glamour.com\nMarriage and Sex: What Beads Have to Do With Your Sex Life\nA New Artist to Add to Your Makeout Playlist: Alex Winston\nSex Tip From a Guy: The Waiting Game\nMore Ways to Get Glamour\nVisit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10!\nDownload Glamour Magazine for your iPad!\nEnter the latest *Glamour sweepstakes! *\nFollow us on Twitter!\nAdd us to your iGoogle homepage.\nPhoto: ThinkStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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