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Chapter 27 -- Virtualizing the Imagined: Underground River Games
CHAPTER 27
VIRTUALIZING THE IMAGINED: UNDERGROUND RIVEERS IN
GAMES
We will begin our look at underground river games with an example of how things have changed.
Find the hidden words in the April 1872
Our Young Folks, An Illustrated Magazine
for Boys and Girls entertainment.
Underground Rivers. Two rivers flow under the first sentence and one in each of the others.
1. They do not speak Portuguese in 8. In Latin we easily write egomet or ego; not
England.
so easily in Greek.
2. I like to eat ham, especially with eggs. 9. Grindstones are at par, hones far dearer.
3. In no part of China is tea not sold. 10. There in a barn on a steep, high hill.
4. Pride everywhere falls to the ground. 11. They brought myrrh in each hand, and
spice, and frankincense.
5. Alum is sour, I think, and disagreeable. 12. We had our own carriage the evening.
6. They make vinegar on neglected floors 13. He is, with heart, hands, and pens a co-
in France.
labor with me.
7. I hate to drum. I am inveterately
opposed to noise.
Though titled "Underground Rivers," this game might not play well today, if for no other reason
than that modern boys and girls have little knowledge of geography.
The answers: 1. Don, Seine 8. Oregon
2. Thames 9. Rhone
3. Oporto 10. Arno
4. Dee 11. Rhine
5. Missouri 12. Douro
6. Garonne 13. Pensacola
7. Miami
which leads us to admit that today's adults also don't have that much knowledge.
So we'll not dwell on word games, but more on to board games.
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