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Greg Pool: Tabletop game designer, #RecoveringGeologist, and campfire busker. Curator of @SpielMas.com ⛄️. ✍️ Playtesting: Kamoamoa, Soccer 54, Bats of Limekiln, Pōpoki. Try look: HaoleBoyGames.com (HOW-lee)

The box for the River & Stone deck of playing cards is falling apart on the its side. This is probably because we play “Palace: River & Stone” with it so much!
2021 video looking southwest of western brown bats eating bugs in Limekiln State Park at the ocean entry of Limekiln Creek.
Greg staring across a chess board at the black Queen.
Star Wars #1 fan but with the USS Enterprise in the middle.
Blank starting field where USA is the Player 2 and Paraguay is player 1. This match would recreate the June 12 match in Los Angeles, the first of six to play in Group D.
Final journey in Pōpoki (cat): Two health points and five whiskers left. That results in a final score of seven, which is maika'i (good) in the current rubric. Mahalo for reading this far!
A tall fountain of molten rock pours into a short plain of lava flows in the summit crater of Kilauea Volcano. Time: 7:40 am HST.
Midgame of Foosball 74 with pizza and beer at Lonely Oak Brewery in Gilroy CA.
"Just after sunset, you wake to 'discover' the creek with echolocation as you fly downstream. You eat food, dodge logs, avoid boulders, and skirt the edge of the creek, avoiding owls in the redwoods. You pause at the end of the creek where it flows into the Pacific Ocean. Then you turn around and fly home before dusk falls. You have to race to make it back up the creek with as much food as you can eat!"
Six corks from margarita mix bottles. Gathered over months, not days. I love my wife! ♥️
Player mat. There's space for the six steps, six rounds, and scoring tracks.
ABC7 News at 5pm - March 22, 2026
Screenshot of tv screen showing the evening news of "GAME MARKET WEST" INDIE GAME SHOWCASE" on ABC news in San Francisco. You can see The Misplay banner and Jason teaching a game.
Wearing a hat with a Hawaiian license plate and the word “HAOLE.”
The Commitments Comedy, 1991, 1hr 58 min
Sell sheet for the game Pōpoki (cat in Hawaiian), which features eight dice, 36 cards, and two cat meeples. One of them is orange, modeled after my cat Ginger, who just passed sway.
Crownfell and Last Stand (solo expansion) from Mike Berg via Game Crafter.
What’s the game behind Quacks?
“I had a friend who ran a rulebook through AI for proofreading and it hallucinated that people needed to shout ‘bingo’. Apparently that’s AI’s conception of board games right now.”
The eruption of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Name badge, ruler, scissors, playing cards, play mat, and pencil.
Four Mac adapters for a power cord all in a similar position and orientation.
My father has returned to the hospital for his second visit in two weeks. If I can get him back to skilled nursing in time for this Saturday evening, I may be able to hop on for a late night late playtest. I also may be exhausted from the heavy burden that I carry for this responsibility.
Jason Parmele listed above mine in the playbill.
Cover of Diatoms box.
Playing disc golf for the fifth day of SpielMas.
Game set up for Knitting Circle.
End game of Azure with a SpielMas display with three meeples on the keyboard of a laptop.
Mid-game of Deep Regrets, with a SpielMas display with two meeples on days 26 and 27.
Mid-game with a SpielMas display with a single meeple on the 26.
Start of game in Ticket to Ride India
From bottom to top: Diatoms Deep Regrets Knitting Circle Isle of Cats Duel Kabuto Sumo Roll in One
Entering the game night
On the left are four columns each with cards in ascending order. On the right is a display in the second round with six up, five down, four up, three down, and two up. The current score is player won 13 points and player 2 4 points. Player 2 will decide whether they want to go first. Their best decision would be to let player one go first, forcing them to take a row.
My rules are now on the part of the game library shelf reserved for Bay Area designers.
Top camera (V1) looking west at the eruption, with camera V3 positioned on the left, just above there’s USGS logo. Bottom camera (V3) looking north at the train of ash and cinder from the eruption. At the 09:57 mark the camera renders non-operational as it becomes part of the geologic record.
Box in front of rules. I have the German version, but the coffee shop will have the Take 5 version.
A section allowing people to check out boardgames: “The Library is trialing having a boardgame collection. The boardgames can be reserved, collected and returned to any branch. Any questions please see staff!”
In the booth (right) for the California Collegiate Athletic Association men’s and women’s tournament.
stellarvue.com Slew To move, manually or electronically, a telescope about its mount's axes of rotation at a relatively fast rate. Typically, a telescope is slewed to an object's general location, then fine adjustments are made to position the object within the telescope's field of view.
The Bats of Limekiln card back with bat.
View from the touch line of a set up of Foosball 74.
13 CORNER KICK In your final third of the field both players will play two cards in sequence. The first card to play for possession, and then the second for shoot/save, if possible.
A Shoot 3 Strength Card from Soccer 74, now re-themed to Foosball 74 in the digital prototype I used during Protospiel Online. In the background is the soccer field where the Sea Otters 🦦 of Cal State Monterey Bay play their home games.
Image showing all three factions in Reiner Knizia’s Samurai: helmet, rice, and Buddha.
How Americans respond when asked to pick rock, paper or scissors: Scissors 30% Paper 26% Rock 44%
Logo for the Golden Gate Gamemakers, representing board game designers from around the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cutting up poker-size cards made with Mulideck (Mac).
Setup on PlayingCardsIO of Soccer 74. The blue 12 with a spatial awareness advantage is in the center midfield representing the current location of the ball on the field.
RESET We call it "a Jason" when you hit Reset instead of Deal.
Starting set-up of Soccer 54 on a playmat that looks like a grass field.
Shuffle the Flip 7 cards Flip 7 comes with a deck of cards, and the first step is to shuffle them thoroughly. This ensures that everyone starts on an even playing field, with no one knowing what to expect.
Some park visitor tried to “shaka bra” in front of the stationary camera.
Eruption from a vent in the summit caldera of Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
The Seventh Seal (1957) This allegorical film directed by Ingmar Bergman is set in medieval Sweden during the Black Death, where a knight returning from the Crusades plays chess with Death.