Kal designs new board game

The subject line "Kal designs new board game" sucked me right into the email:

If your financial indicators are looking down, there is one way to pick your spirits up. Play "Credit Crunch", the new board game launched in this week's Christmas double edition of The Economist. The game (designed and created by Kal ) is also available to all online. Go to

www.Economist.com/boardgame

to download the board, currency, playing cards, rules, and player icons.

Let me know if you play the game and how it works out. We can tweak the rules with feedback from readers.

Oh, man, I just love this stuff. I'll be assembling one of these babies. There's a hard copy in the December 20th issue, as well as a Tintin article.