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Traditions-based board game
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Forget Trivial Pursuit. The hot
test board game of the year may
soon be rivaled by another game
based on subjects much closer to the
hearts of Texas A&M University stu
dents and alumni.
“College Days at Texas A&M,” a
game based entirely around Univer
sity traditions, will be available in lo
cal bookstores Sept. 13, its inventor
said Thursday.
“It’s a pretty clean game,” said Jon
Word, a May graduate and the man
who designed the game. “There’s no
references to beer or sex or any
thing. I think it will appeal to a lot of
different people.”
The game has four Aggie-symbol
playing pieces: Old Sarge, senior
boots. Reveille and the senior ring.
Word said that players prepare for
college, pick a major and then move
their playing pieces down Highway 6
to campus.
Players advance their playing
pieces or get cash bonuses for know
ing University traditions, such as be
ing able to sing the Aggie War
Hymn. But players also can be pe
nalized for such things as missing a
yell practice. The game board has a
pictorial view of campus.
Word said the game’s success is
“pretty iffy right now.” He said he
thinks the game will sell particularly
well with alumni, but that he hopes
everyone interested in Texas A&M
will buy it.
A marketing survey by INVENT,
the Institute for Ventures in New
Technology, predicts that 3,200 cop
ies of the game will sell by the end of
the year. Word said that 5,000 copies
are on the market.
The 23 year-old Word developed
the game while living on campus and
worked for two years to refine it.
He said that he and his roommate,
Greg Budinger, “just kind of came
up with the idea one night.”
A member of the 12th Man kick
off team. Word said he spent the
summer of 1983 working on the
game.
“All I did was work out and go
back to my room and work on the
game,” he said.
Word broke his hand during a
football practice that fall, an injury
that he said turned out to be a bles
sing.
It gave me more time for the
game,” he said. “That Christmas and
the following spring I played it all
the time.”
Word said his family contributed
much to improving the game.
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Recent Texas A&M graduate Jon Word with his game, “Colle
“I can’t take full credit for it,” he
said. “My sister and roommate
helped me a lot.” Word’s sister,
Tatni, is a sophomore at Texas
A&M.
His father, Max Word, Texas
A&M class of ’52, helped raise
money to hack the project, and
Word’s mother is managing the mar
keting of the game.
Surprisingly, Word said he has
never played many board games.
“I don’t like them,” he admitted.
“Long board games frustrate me. I
designed this one to only take about
an hour.
“Parents can sit down with their
kids and play the game to teach
them about college,” he said.
"1 didn't want to go to Texas
A&M that much, but my father said
I could go to A&M and he'd nay for
it, or I could go somewhere else and
pay for it myself, so 1 went to A&M.
“Now I’m so glad I did. When you
leave a school, you realize how de
voted you are to it.”
He said the fact that he hasn’t
played many board games is a plus
because it kept him from being in
fluenced by other games.
“This game is more original. We
put a lot of quality into it," Word
said.
Word said the game is a great way
for kids to learn about college.
Word has a degree in industrial
distribution and now sells X-ray
equipment for Picker International.
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