The paper’s back page. Two games so far: one you finish over a Monday coffee, one you walk a station at a time for weeks. Both are really about the road the town was built to serve.
The weekly doublet
The Crossing
A word ladder in the form Lewis Carroll called a doublet: change one letter at a time, every rung a real word, and cross from this bank to the far one. A fresh crossing is set every Monday, each carrying a note from the Boone’s Lick Road it’s named for.
A serial in eleven stations
The Road
Walk the Boone’s Lick Road west from St. Charles to Arrow Rock, eleven stations, one plain decision at each. Nobody dies here — it’s a newspaper; what your choices cost is days on the road and miles behind you, tallied across a hand-drawn survey plat.