Template:Did you know nominations/Icosian game
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The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 10:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
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Icosian game
- ... that although the icosian game was advertised as "a highly amusing game for the drawing room", it was too easy to play and few copies were sold?
- Source: For quote from 1859 ad, see Turner (1987); for the claims that it was too easy and not successful see Sowell (2001), https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmnj/vol1/iss24/14 (and note the dates of these are pre-Wikipedia, too early to be circular references)
5x expanded by David Eppstein (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 183 past nominations.
Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.—David Eppstein (talk) 06:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC).
