IT’S A PUCK ADVENT CALENDAR!!!
This December we’ll be posting a brand new sketch every day straight to Christmas, so…
VOTE EVERY DAY TO CATCH ‘EM ALL!!!
As for this comic…
I’ve said this in a previous comic before, but Hannah’s main inspiration is the mother of a childhood friend who (like Hannah) could only see vague shapes and colors, and only when objects were held up right against her eye. Her favorite hobby? Jigsaw puzzles – like, the jigsaw puzzles that have at least 1000 pieces. Huge jigsaw puzzles that covered the whole dining room table. She would look at each piece individually, holding it up to her eye, and as she assembled the puzzle she would basically generate a mental map of the vague color regions in the image, assembling it all through touch.
It’s always humbling to meet a person who does the seemingly impossible. With ease.
“I see. I was in checkmate from the beginning”
Indeed.
“The only way to win is not to play”
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Although there are many reasons to play a board game other than winning, like mental exercise and friendship development.
Winning is often an empty experience. Though I could stand to win a little more often in life.
Oh yes, nearly all of us could all stand to win a little more often in life. Maybe that’s how we know this is reality, not a simulation.
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Often in modern board games, like “Carcassone”, get wrapped up in things such as “building a nice city” rather than “scoring more victory points”. This happens IRL as well.
Hey, we all want to win. And when we can’t win in the arenas we care about, we make up other arenas to force a win. It’s like those speed-runners at video games who come up with achievements like, “fastest record for dying”.
It’s good to have reasonable expectations.
Or no expectations at all.
But you repeat yourself.
Don’t forget to call foot-faults, Daphne.
I’m not sure, but I think that’s the wrong game.
Just a game I ran across in someone’s memoirs, called “Djugashvili,” where you can call out anything and winning is when your opponent agrees with you.
Isn’t that called the Iosifovich gambit?
Assuming that it is the same Dzhugashvili that I’m thinking of.
Sounds like an early example of what solidified to be known as “Calvinball.” How exciting.
What a way to warn Daphne in advance of her upcoming defeat…
Hey, at least Daphne now knows not to wager any money on the win.
Voting Incentive: Puck as an angel? Bit of a stretch. heh
Miranda as a cherub.
am i the only one thats shocked that puck even has a chess board?
Maybe a combo checkers/chess set they got on clearance at the Canuck-Buck Store? Because two games in one is a better deal than buying them separate – even if you will only REALLY play one game?
Actually a little suspicious because the pieces look like they’re wood. Almost like someone cares.
Well, she’s a classy lady.
It could be Phoebe’s.
Pulling a Beth Harmon there…
Fictional chess champs are the best chess champs.
Why do I get the impression that the board in Hannah’s mind is laid-out like all the roller-coasters in Canada’s Funderland jumbled together?
Perhaps designed by Escher?
We will never know, will we?
When it comes to chess, I figure I at least last long enough to make twenty moves, I’m doing well! Same with golf, all I ask for is to finish 18 holes with the same ball I started with . . . I have never done that.
It’s good to dream.
That sketch of Puck as a child angel . . . . . . . “Okay, what do you want, how much is it, where do I buy it, and just so you know, don’t overuse it, that look I mean.”
Miranda as a cherub, actually. Less suspicious.
Oh, it’s Miranda?!?!?!? O Future Empress of Earth, here’s my credit card, use it all!
I have just acquired the Hots For Hannah™.
Dayum.
Chess does it for you, huh?
I tried to reply here.
If that were, truly, a chess set owned by Daphne the board would be curling up cardboard and would have to be held flat with weights from years of neglect.
“HOT FOR TEACHER” by Van Halen, XCXLXXXIV, published by Warner Brothers
This was supposed to have been a reply to Bosda
I got it bad, got it bad, got it bad.
I’m hot for the part-time T.A. in my early morning ancient history tutorial sessions.
Oh. She’s THAT kind of chess-player. I’m not even THERE and I’ve already lost! Sheesh!
They’re no fun at all.
I didn’t say THAT. I implied it though, hoping Hannah didn’t notice. Thank you though. 😉
Something tells me losing with dignity isn’t in her being.
Or losing gracefully.
Might be good for her.
Puck as the Nutcracker Princess.
The end result was about as disturbing as I expected it would be.
Richie Cunningham: Remember the other day when I was telling you about me and Mary Lou Milligan? Well, the fact is…I played chess.
Arthur “the Fonz” Fonzarelli: You played with her chest?
Uh-oh, now Daphne will be tempted to cheat! Moral hazard alert!
I think she can resist the urge.
Besides, if a blind girl is playing from the board in her mind, you can rearrange the actual pieces all you like but it doesn’t change the fact that she knows where they should be.