Analog Game Studies

The book Around the World in 80 Games, by Marcus Du Sautoy, is a collection of essays about board, card, and other games based on Du Sautoy’s experiences traveling the world as a research mathematician. This article is a review of the book and a retrospective on its use as a foundation for a first-year general education seminar course on topics in gaming, targeting competency in critical thinking, information literacy, and global literacy.