@ Games & Playing @ Literature #5 :: Ovid on Tic tac toe :: ludendo saepe paratur amor

P. OVIDI NASONIS LIBER TERTIVS ARTIS AMATORIAE

„Parva monere pudet, talorum dicere iactus

Ut sciat, et vires, tessera missa, tuas:

Et modo tres iactet numeros, modo cogitet, apte

Quam subeat partem callida, quamque vocet.

Cautaque non stulte latronum proelia ludat,

Unus cum gemino calculus hoste perit,

Bellatorque sua prensus sine compare bellat,

Aemulus et coeptum saepe recurrit iter. 360

Reticuloque pilae leves fundantur aperto,

Nec, nisi quam tolles, ulla movenda pila est.

Est genus, in totidem tenui ratione redactum

Scriptula, quot menses lubricus annus habet:

Parva tabella capit ternos utrimque

lapillos, 365

In qua vicisse est continuasse suos.

Mille facesse iocos; turpe est nescire puellam

Ludere: ludendo saepe paratur amor.

Sed minimus labor est sapienter iactibus uti:

Maius opus mores composuisse suos.

Ovid: The Art of Love

(Ars Amatoria)

Book III

„A few things shameful to mention, she must know how to call

the throws at knucklebones, and your values, you rolled dice:

sometimes throwing three, sometimes thinking, closely,

how to advance craftily, how to challenge.

She should play the chess match warily not rashly,

where one piece can be lost to two opponents,

and a warrior wars without his companion who’s been taken,

and a rival often has to retrace the journey he began.

Light spills should be poured from the open bag,

nor should a spill be disturbed unless she can raise it.

There’s a kind of game, the board squared-off by as many lines,

with precise calculation, as the fleeting year has months:

a smaller board presents three stones each on either side

where the winner will have made his line up together.

There’s a thousand games to be had: it’s shameful for a girl

not to know how to play: playing often brings on love.

But there’s not much labour in knowing all the moves:

there’s much more work in keeping to your rules.“

CDoupbles :: GOD and ODD in GOOD

Veronika Tzekova, CDoupbles, 2013- ongoing

Words faded, merged and (re)appeared while looking at a refugee telling his story how he made it to EU @ Europatagsveranstaltung 2015 "Europa - ein Plädoyer für die Gemeinschaft".

CDoupbles :: NATOD :: a found one

I found it, it is not mine and I envy a bit but still happy to have seen it. However it was fabricated, on purpose or not,  it is simple and forcing into contemplation CDoupble. 

* NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization

   Tod (German)- death

The Coastered Tic-tac-toe is now displayed in its natural environment

The playable table accessory will be at Mau Shi restaurant (Herrengasse 7 | Altstadtpassage in Graz, www.facebook.com/maushi) as part of the Design in the City program part of Designmonat Graz (1 May-31 May 2015). Coasters are typical and simple attribute for public venues such cafes, bars and pubs. The tic-tac-toe (“X”s and “O”s) is one of the simplest and spontaneously playable table strategy game. The author’s game Coastered Tic-tac-toe brings these two together offering playful CHAlleNGE while enjoying one’s drink. The game attributes are double sided printed with “X”s and “O”s regular coasters. These are to be used both for playing and as coasters. The wooden container box defines the 3x3 game board.

iGRAZ: Game Epiphanies :: Graffity Tic-tac-toe

Against the law, paper and pencil game took the CHAlleNGE to become wall and spray game.

Against the rules, „O“ started first.

A game unfinished, but with clear outcome.

iGRAZ: GAMe ≡ GAMbling Epiphanies :: Spielsucht :: Spielverbot :: Spielraum

In my parallel universe where words are subject to multiple contextualisations resulting in different connotation, “Spielsucht”¹ sets free butterflies in my stomach, 

where “Spielverbot ” ² gives me goosebumps. 

Though being fully aware of the dictionary meaning of the both words and the reason for their circulation in the local social and urban environment, I fail to comprehend why Spiel (=game)+verbot (=ban) is surrounded with visually dominating chessboard pattern. 

A game board with a game ban gives some Spielraum ...

¹ “Spielverbot ” means “gambling ban”

² “Spielsucht” stand for “gambling addiction”

iGRAZ: Game Epiphanies :: Das Spiel ... zwischen Freude und Sex

CDoupbles :: neu. glänzend. email. I want my emails shiny!

neu. glänzend. email.^*

I left my cursor roaming on the shelves of hardware store ... ... ...

and what if they (the emails) where arriving packed like this :O:D...

Veronika Tzekova, CDoupbles, 2013- ongoing

^*

• in English: message distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network.
• in German:

1. email;
2.  paint that air dries to a hard, usually glossy, finish, used for coating surfaces.

superhydrophobic, a game in the rain :: 0:00-0:17

A Game in the rain

Superhydrophobic Hopscotch by Rainworks

!!! 0:00-0:17 !!!

Spending quality time with a bottle of wine

Some days ago a wine bottle flashed at me from a shop window. 

This encounter really deserves my blog label “Game Epiphanies”. It brings together my fascination with wine, patterns, games, and hidden messages.

Thanks to Mrs. Regina Triebaumer from Weingut Günter u. Regina Triebaumer, the missing threes were found:

TRIE is a nickname for Triebaumer, if to be translated, means THREE TREES.

TRIE ROT consists of THREE WINE VARIETIES. Mainly Zweigelt and additionally Cabernet Sauvignon and St. Laurent.

And tic-tac-toe was also in mind, when the label was designed. Though the the Xs and Os are some kind of placeholders, the tic-tac-toe is involved as it ends up with THREE again. In German it is even called DREI gewinnt (EN: THREE wins).

3X3 (but also 3x4) game grid is to be recognized in the label design, perfect prerequisite for tic-tac-toe (or THREE in a row).

I shifted the original roles and turned the letters into placeholders, apart of the O in ROT. THREE game situations are to be recognized in the label design, X wins in two of them and one the games ends in a draw. Bellow are the original label configuration and the game situations I discovered in the THREE ROT label.

A truly CHAlleNGING GAME experience. I guess I can call this

spending quality time

with a bottle of wine