From the sponsors:
National Games and Puzzles Week was designed to recognize the educational value of puzzles and games. And it can also be just plain fun. The Week promotes playing of nonelectronic games as a way of encouraging friends and family to enjoy the social and educational aspects of board game. An annual event celebrated Sunday through Saturday of Thanksgiving Week, is held to increase appreciation of board games and puzzles. Not only is this week about games, but it is also about preserving the tradition of spending time with friends and family while playing board games, which is the most important thing of all. Did you also know that puzzles are good for your brain? Games and puzzles are not just for kids. Adults are holding "game nights" as social activities in their homes - which are gaining in popularity. What better way to spend time with your friends or family, this week and any week throughout the year than by playing games and working jigsaw puzzles together? So, dust off your board games.... get out your jigsaw puzzles... have some fun this week, and every week. A terrific way to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with your family or fellow students!
[http://www.awarenessdates.com/2007/11/national-game-puzzle-week.html]
Visit Fogelson Library this week and see the surprising displays of the many books about games and puzzles we have in the collection. A few books from the Special Collections room are on display in the case near the stairs; some of these were published in the 1880's!
Dinner and a movie for this weekend features movies with a "game" theme, such as Slumdog Millionaire which is centered around a contestant in a game show. Cookbooks feature sandwiches .... because the Earl of Sandwich needed to keep playing his gambling games even though he was hungry. So his cooks--or his servants--or his wife--or his enabler--invented the sandwich so he could eat with one hand and hold his cards with the other!
