The game of ruthless ridicule

Here’s a smart Christmas gift idea that keeps on smarting: Zygote Games, a company based in Hadley, Mass., is offering Kansans a 20 percent discount on “Bone Wars: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology,” in which players compete in discovering and assembling dinosaur bone cards into completed skeletons.
Why a special deal for Kansans? According to the company’s Web site, “BONE WARS is all about how scientific theories get developed and tested. . . . Maybe our game can do what the schools in Kansas won’t.”
Thanks for thinking of us. Send a copy to the Kansas State Board of Education, please.
Posted by Randy Scholfield

7 Comments

  1. NoJoCo
    Posted November 30, 2005 at 1:55 pm | Permalink

    Speaking of Dinosaurs, they still have Ted “Give Me a Drinky Winky” Kennedy – what a shame.

  2. Steven E.
    Posted November 30, 2005 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

    Visit the site. The game looks interesting. It features Charles Sternberg, who was not born in Kansas, but lived here much of his life. He made many discoveries of fossils here in Kansas and developed field methods that are employed by palentologists today.

    Our state and children deserve better than our current BOE.

  3. TRACY
    Posted November 30, 2005 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

    NoJo, hey if they like him up there, then I love him being up there.I no longer drink, but I’m just not sure I like most people who never drank. Seems like the folks who’ve never tried at least a little walk on the wild side tend to be such condescending characters.Good ol’ boy and sportsman’s friend Harold Ensly was quite proud of the collection of shark’s teeth that he picked up right here in the fields of Kansas.I suppose the devil put them there?

  4. JUSTA GUY
    Posted November 30, 2005 at 6:13 pm | Permalink

    20% off, I am getting one.

  5. Jed
    Posted December 1, 2005 at 11:28 am | Permalink

    Gee, now I know what to get everybody on my list for christmas!

  6. Steven E.
    Posted December 1, 2005 at 11:52 pm | Permalink

    I’ve sent off for mine. They even give you a break on the shipping charges.

  7. Joseph Steig
    Posted January 7, 2006 at 9:23 pm | Permalink

    Thank you to everyone in Kansas for supporting our BONE WARS product!Joseph (for the Zygotes)