Game Info
Year
2026
Players
3-6
Age
14+
Playtime
45 min
Publisher
CMU Press
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Description
A cozy collaborative poetry-writing game with a brewing phase and an open mic phase inspired by Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird
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Beyond Solitaire Interview at 52:24
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- The Napoleonic Wars is one of the games that is a big behemoth that is part of my collection. I have gotten to play it with the designers, Rick Young and Rick Bey, I believe is the name of the two designers. So I have played it with them. I have played it with people who love it. And I have really, really struggled to get it to the table. It's been in my collection for, I don't know, maybe six or seven years. So it's like, what are we doing? Why do we have this?
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Beyond Solitaire Review at 1:08 sentiment: positive
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Pros
- Makes poetry accessible and fun.
- Encourages collaboration among players.
- Educational, teaching literary devices with examples.
- Non-competitive, focusing on shared creation.
- Designed to be accessible to beginners.
- Thematic integration with a fantasy setting.
- Components include explanations and examples for learning.
Cons
- Can feel robotic with fewer players (2-3).
- Original title 'Essay' evoked a visceral reaction.
Thematic elements
- Writing poetry and making it accessible and enjoyable.
- A fantasy world, specifically a tavern, in a Legends and Lattes-style world.
Comparison games
- Legends and Lattes
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Players play cards to a table, building lines of poetry based on given elements like imagery and literary devices.
- Collaborative writing — Players write individual lines of poetry that are then combined to form a complete poem, with lines being passed and chosen by other players.
- cooperative scoring — The entire group's score is collaborative, focusing on beating a target mark or achieving a collective goal rather than individual scores.
- Set Collection — Players score points based on how many of the given elements (imagery, devices, words) are used by the players in their lines.
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- the the question that I always got taught when I was in the classroom, was like, why are we learning this and what are we ever going to do with this?
- So I think that bringing poetry to a space where it gets to be collaborative, where it gets to be somewhat, um, somewhat together, you're doing it in a group sense, uh, but it's also, you know, more fun, it's more engaging, it's more interesting to kind of break away the the solitary nature of the art and and get people to be involved together.
- the mechanics can have meaningful socially constructed messaging beyond just the aesthetic layer of the game.
- the most valuable thing you can have in a job is the the ability to go to it every day without feeling terrible.
- Bird by Bird is not a book about poetry, but it is a book about writing and life.
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