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This is a photo of Vern AKA gravyrun. His daughter Holly wrote this about her dad.
Dad and I both have played here for over 15 years, my sister joannamarie has played for a long time as well. Dad has 3 daughters and 3 grandchildren. Born and raised in California, he moved to New Jersey in the 80’s. He was an over the road truck driver for the majority of his life, moving to local deliveries later on. He loved to play backgammon and cribbage, but couldn’t wrap his head around All Aboard no matter how many times I tried to teach him. He loved to do puzzles and play card games as well. All his kids and grandkids live in Arizona and he would visit us several times a year. He also loved to visit Alaska. He loved sitting on a beach and listening to the waves, with a good margarita in hand. He fought a 25 year battle with cancer and was a true warrior.



rabbitoid has kindly added indicators to signal potential long games, to help you judge your pacing. They are based on the longest games in previous Olympics.

No stars: no hurry, but...
: at least a move per day
: move often
: don't leave the keyboard for too long

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 1 Tournament - starting 12 January 2025

1. Animosity
2. Small Inverticade
3. Camelot
4. Caveman
5. Dominoes
6. Double Nine Dominoes
7. Hangman
8. Executioner
9. Thematic Hangman
10. Kickback Thematic Executioner
11. Ludodeux
12. Mahjong
13. Moebius Moguls
14. Loco Ochos
15. Switch
16. Officer's Skat

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 2 Tournament - starting 19 January 2025

1. Hypergammon (3 Point)
2. Acey Deucey
3. Checkers
4. Chess
5. 10x10 Dice Chess
6. Go 13x13
7. Go Moku
8. Large Go Moku
9. Kickback Hangman
10. Imperium
11. Ludodecarte
12. Oware
13. Classic Renju
14. 1-4-5 Senet
15. Short Swapping Senet
16. Shogi

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 3 Tournament - starting 26 January 2025

1. Long Gammon
2. Tabula
3. That Fast Baseball Game
4. Giveaway Checkers
5. Spanish Checkers
6. Turkish Checkers
7. Troitzky Chess
8. Two-Player Chinese Checkers
9. Cribbage
10. Back 'Em Up Cribbage
11. Rail Domination
12. Ludocrous
13. Nine Men Morris
14. Salvo
15. Devious Salvo
16. Hit&Miss Salvo

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 4 Tournament - starting 2 February 2025

1. Backgammon
2. Bagh-Chal: Tigers and Goats
3. Cam
4. Chinese Checkers
5. Diagonal Duel (3-point)
6. Dipole
7. Fives and Threes
8. Muggins
9. Gami
10. 123 Dots
11. Hex
12. Outbreak
13. Blackhole Outbreak
14. Paper Basketball
15. Relic Rush
16. Xiangqi

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 5 Tournament - starting 9 February 2025

1. All Aboard
2. Atomic Chess
3. Connect Six
4. GoldFences
5. Halma
6. Marked Halma
7. Small Havannah
8. Konane 12x10
9. Mentalis
10. Ordo
11. Simple Paper Football
12. Paper Hockey
13. Pipes
14. ConnectaPipe
15. Tic Tac Stack
16. Xiphiastoo

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 6 Tournament - starting 16 February 2025

1. Four In a Row
2. Hotspot Four In a Row
3. Large CrossDowns Scatter
4. Large Stacking CrossDowns
5. Pente
6. Small GoldDots
7. Lines of Action
8. Small Outbreak
9. Random Pipe
10. Shotgun Reversi
11. Reversi
12. Group Rummikub
13. Straight Rummikub
14. Loop Trax
15. Trax
16. Xiphias

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 7 Tournament - starting 23 February 2025

1. Treble Trouble Four In A Row
2. Zero G Four In a Row
3. Amazons
4. Tourne-case
5. CrossDowns
6. Stacking CrossDowns Race
7. Large Diagonal Duel
8. AnyGrabble
9. Floating Blanks Grabble
10. Grabble Swapper
11. Small Hex
12. Konane
13. Plateau
14. Polar Poultry
15. Renju: Sakata
16. American Rummikub
17. Whist

The 2024 Winter Olympics Group 8 Tournament - starting 2 March 2025

1. Progressive Chess
2. Any Which Way Duel
3. Shake Rattle & Roll
4. Shake Your Bootie
5. Shake It Up
6. Color Domination
7. Square Grabble
8. High Seas
9. Scrambled Eggs 6x6
10. Gemma
11. Parachute 6x6
12. Quarto
13. Rock Paper Scissors
14. Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
15. Hasami Shogi
16. 8x8 Trax
17. Lucky Trax

The mystery tournament - starting 9 March 2025

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