Just in case you don't already know about this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/04/AR2005120401141.html Chappell found plenty of innovative games on the College Park campus at the second annual Holiday Game Festival, where local inventors showed off their creations while also trying out the latest European board game imports. The names of the games were unfamiliar to Chappell: Aquarius, Cartagena, Dry Gulch and Lost Cities. But it didn't matter. "Sometimes you just get tired of the same old games and you want to do something that'll make you think a little more," she said as she walked around a ballroom at the student union, where more than 20 tables were set up, each with a different game and instructor. --dougo@xxxxxxxxx