I love this passage. My favorite part is that the author basically says “my opinion is worthless because I know nothing about this, but I’m going to share it anyway.” I wish more editorials begin with that honesty.
I recognize that releasing two games (or arguably three, if you count Cranial Vault 2 English and Spanish) on the same day may not be a good marketing strategy, but after working on both for about a year, they just happened to get completely done at the exact same time.
Not sure if this is for you? Check out the instructional video here: youtu.be/WVoabAFuimM?...
If you need this in your collection, you can find it here: www.thegamecrafter.com/games/neurog...
And of course, they are doing the same.
But little by little, the board disappears.
So you need to find your opponent more times than they find you before the sands close in and both of you are trapped in the pyramid forever.
(It's kind of a dark premise.)
Here's the skinny:
Your opponent is hiding in one level of the brainstem. You take turns moving an obelisk around a grid of tiles. When you land on a hieroglyph, you get to ask your opponent if a lesion at their hidden level would cause the symptom represented by that hieroglyph.
Today, we are also dropping Neuroglyphs: Secrets of Medullary Pyramid! www.neurdgames.com/neuroglyphs
This is a 2-player game about the anatomy of the brainstem, set in Egypt in the 1920s.
Made with @MikaelaStiver (who also did a lot of the art) and Jeremy Grachan.
So drop everything and order your copy today! I promise you can pick up the stuff you dropped afterwards.
Cranial Vault 2 (English): www.thegamecrafter.com/games/crania...
Cranial Vault 2 (Spanish): www.thegamecrafter.com/games/crania...
And did I mention that it's also available in Spanish? According to reliable sources, that means that roughly 25-30% of the world's population can play Cranial Vault 2. (Assuming they all have appropriate medical training.)
Teleneurology is some seriously crazy hijinks. Draw the term you see, pass your drawing to the next player, they guess what it is, pass their guess to the next player, they draw it, etc.
In Fastrocyte, players break up into teams of two. Try to get your teammate to guess as many of the terms on your card as possible using only one-word clues.
Draw category cards one at a time. If you and another player have matching images, shout out a word in their category before they say one in yours. That's Dysnomia.
Spike is a fast-paced game where players race to come up with terms that fit assigned categories, using the letters they are given. Can you think of causes of neuropathy that start with A, D, G or Q?
Stereotactic is a cooperative game where players come up with single-word terms to help each other complete a grid of neurologic adjectives. What word would you use to help people guess both Vascular and Hereditary or both Neoplastic and Brainstem?
Do you love dwelling on the past? In Time is Brain, you try to sort the great events in the history of neurology into the correct order before your opponents do!
In Spinography, you roll dice to determine what parts of the spinal cord you are allowed to draw. Do your press your luck and keep rolling, or risk losing it all by rolling doubles?
In Corpus Colosseum, two players try to figure out what two randomly assigned neurology terms have in common in as few guesses as possible.
In the Upgoing Toe, one player is secretly BAD BINSKI. The others are trying to sleuth out who he/she is, while Bad Binski tries to intuit a secrete neurology term.
With co-authors @OligoclonalBand. Tatiana Aldaz, and Ashley Paul, we've put together nine fast-paced neurology-themed games, each of which can be taught in under a minute. Read on for a snapshot of each!
I've got big game news today. Please share widely (and wildly!)
First, I'm excited to introduce the planet to Cranial Vault 2, the newest big box of neurology party games for your whole ganglia.
www.neurdgames.com/cranial-vaul...
Cool fact: We are co-releasing this today in English and Spanish!
Medalla Light tastes like Budweiser. But the Mojitos taste like Mojitos.
Puerto Rico’s best-selling beer. Could it be even more popular with a simple vowel swap?
Olfactory fans rejoice! In Puerto Rico, they have a card game dedicated to Cranial Nerve 1.
Totally agree. In its heyday, Twitter created a community of health professionals supporting each other’s projects. This was the first thing to go as the community jumped ship.
Fill out the form below to win a free copy of Earth's greatest* board game, Circle of Willis!
You may be thinking, "Self, if I don't repost this, I'll be more likely to win." Fair enough, but won't doing the right thing feel even better? Please share!
* Not an exaggeration.
It looks like a Jenga tower but somebody wrote little neurology words all over it!
Q: What the heck is this?
A: It's a neurology game called Plaques and Jengles.
Q: OMG I love it, where can I play???
A: You've got 2 options:
1) Come play this and other games in the Child Neurology Foundation fundraiser game room October 8 - SO MUCH FUN! tinyurl.com/CNF-Beauty-of-… or...
…or I be ugly!
It’s the first in a new series of curriculum resources in Neurology: Education. Check it out, share with students, and stay tuned for more.
Meanwhile, are you developing a curriculum for some aspect of neurology? Get off your butt (or sit back down if you don't have a standing desk) and submit it!
Excited to share a new resource for students of neurology! 🧠
Jordan Newman, one of our stellar University of Michigan adult neurology grads, designed this concise, high-yield interactive curriculum to help demystify brain MRI for new learners.
tinyurl.com/3m82tz48
Premarin is a medication containing conjugated equine estrogens, derived from the urine of pregnant mares. The name "Premarin" is a shortened form of "PREgnant MARe urINe".
Should one assume, then, that pregabalin is derived from a pregnant goblin?
