The slightly random, award-winning strategy game that’s made by hand in the USA!
In his Autobiography, G.K. Chesterton mentions “the well-known and widespread national game of Gype” which he and H.G. Wells invented.
Specifically, Chesterton mentions “I myself cut out and coloured pieces of cardboard of mysterious and significant shapes, the instruments of Table Gype; a game for the little ones.”
Almost 100 years later, Eternal Revolution has published Table Gype as an abstract strategy game with a random element.
Players try to move their pieces from their home row to the row directly opposite. They may jump their own pieces or those of their opponents, but every jump randomizes the playing pieces that were jumped over.
Uncle Chestnut’s Table Gype is played with a cloth gameboard and 32 playing pieces in 4 colors. Each piece, a six-sided die, can represent any of 6 “mysterious and significant shapes” that move differently.
As Christians, we are called to be both servants and warriors for Jesus Christ.
The samurai, whose very title means “one who serves,” were skillful warriors of feudal Japan who devoted themselves fully to the service of their masters, willing even to sacrifice their lives in service to their lord. Christians are also called by their Lord, Jesus, to take up their cross and follow Him, and to seek to lose their life for His sake (Matthew 16:24-25).
I have sometimes been haunted with a vague story about a wild and fantastic uncle… the cause of revolution in nurseries
G.K. Chesterton, Christmas and the First Games
Uncle Chestnut is a fictional character based on the life and works of G.K. Chesterton, created to introduce the prolific English author to young people.
