Kurt Vonnegut, board game designer

Did you know that Kurt Vonnegut was a game designer? Me neither.

Space-Biff introduce us to GHQ, General Headquarters, a 1956 boardgame designed by Kurt Vonnegut from about a decade before Slaughterhouse-Five.

The shorthand is that GHQ is to WWII what chess is to the Medieval battlefield.

And to conclude:

Is GHQ a good game? Sure. For its time. For its place. Had it appeared in 1956, it may well have become the third great checkerboard game. With its zones of control and special units, it might have helped shape the coming century’s approach to tabletop gaming.

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