Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Marc Smith visits the TampAlt Qualifying event Sixteen teams were invited to play the qualifying event for TampAlt, the online substitute for the US Fall Nationals, which had originally been scheduled for the Florida city. The format was a 12-match Swiss Teams, with the top eight teams advancing to the main event. As usual, we…

Bridge is a great first date. I know many players who met their life partners at the bridge table. There’s just something about playing cards together which inspires people to connect. See someone you fancy? Play bridge. Invite them to a game. See how it goes. There’s no reason why Netflix and chill should be…

As a much younger card player than I am now, I remember playing my way through Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Kaiba’s Revenge on a laptop in my aunt’s office over the course of several weeks. I was meant to be preparing for mid-term exams. Beating Kaiba was a worthy exercise between studying and not. I…