J. Rey Lee

@jreylee.bsky.social

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Boardgamer, writer, teacher, girl dad, recovering academic. Unsettling Catan: lookingglance.com/unsettling-catan/ The Looking Glance: lookingglance.com

Analytics screenshot from the word game Smush that states that "your rarest word" is "nonstandard" and that it was played by 1% of players.
Two snippets of the word count tallies displayed by MS Word. The published version weighs in at 13 pages or 4,982 words and the cuts weigh in at 74 pages or 21,704 words.
Rulebook excerpt from Forbidden Island that opens the Order of Play section with the rule "the thirstiest player goes first."
A snippet from the setup rules for Recall that states "Use a quantum randomizer to pick a random player. If your future self has still not found a way to deliver such a device to you, determine the starting player in any other way you find appropriate. The starting player places the time board to their right. Place the hourglass on the first space."
First in Flight game board with a player marker on the 42 point space and 42 glide cards fanned out. Box in background.
Close up of painted bard mini with dark skin and silver hair holding large panpipes with flowers and wearing a flowing green cape.
A map of Venezuela showing its second largest city Maracaibo sitting on the narrow strait separating Lake Maracaibo from the Gulf of Venezuela
The words "ask me anything" superimposed over an image of the book Unsettling Catan sitting on a Catan board.
Table comparing the number of 8 and 9 player games in the BGG database. In the top 200 games, there are 6 8-player games and 2 9-player games. In the top 500, it's 26 to 13. In the top 1000, it's 61 to 31. Across the entire database, it's 3246 to 1679.
Screenshot showing the slider for "AI-enhanced Outputs" disabled in the user settings page for academia.edu.
Screenshot of email notification from Academia.edu that reads "An AI wrote a review of your paper."
A screenshot of the Railroad Ink Challenge app showing a score of 103.
A microphone in front of a computer screen displaying the manuscript for Unsettling Catan.
Author holding up copy of book.
An agent waving to a helicopter carrying a person reading in a bubble. The text reads "You can enjoy reading while taking in amazing scenery."
Cover of Candyland, a Little Golden Book
A page from the Candyland book showing two characters at a crossroads with the text "We had a decision to make right away. To the left was a rainbow-colored trail. To the right, a sign pointed toward the Gingerbread Plum Trees."
Cover image for Unsettling Catan.