“Cornithaca County” Book Preview – Ka•Put – a nerve-racking game of mining

Cornithaca County is a fictitious name for a real future. The first part of this book will contain stories, games, jokes, and activities that dissect the actions and intent of elitist policy making in the county. The second part will document actual incidents and issues that raise questions about the conduct of those who have been entrusted with the welfare of the public at large. At the end of the book, I will present a powerful circumstantial case — and a chilling denouement.

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Kap•Put gets its name from the word “kaput,” meaning “utterly finished” or “destroyed.”

Players compete to mine as much salt as possible from under the lake without creating a catastrophic breach in the lake bed. The players insert all the sticks into the game tube and then place all the community’s marbles on top of them. One by one every player points the connecting tunnel towards their mine and removes a stick hoping that all the marbles stay on the top. Every marble that falls through displaces water along the tunnel and into the player’s mine – When their mine is filled, that player is out of the game, and must move to another community . . . whoever has the least disastrous flooding at the end of the game is the winner.

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Already published and available online from Amazon , Barnes & Noble , and other retailers worldwide:

Family Farm Fun: A Satirical Activity & Game Book about the Hazards of Industrial Farming

Family Farm Fun: A Satirical Activity & Game Book about the Hazards of Industrial Farming by [Baird, Doug]

Learn about the plight of industrial farming with this satirical social justice activity book with games, mazes, sing-a-longs, poems, coloring pages, stories, and more — all to do with industrial farming from a rural point of view. You’ll laugh through each page and ponder the underlying causes of our country’s dangerous factory farming habits.

If you enjoyed documentaries like Super Size Me, What the Health? and Cowspiracy, then you’ll find Family Farm Fun an entertaining and enlightening add-on to the growing facts surrounding our food and the environment.