The only retail outlets now selling MooT are the politically correct Octopus Books East on Commercial Drive and Jimmy Pattison's brazenly capitalistic Save-On Foods in North Vancouver. He thinks he can do better through mail-order sales. 'The only publisher who made me an offer so far basically wanted to take none of the risk and 60 per cent of the profits,' Steeves said. The higher the your roll, the harder your question. It has a 12-sided die, 1008 question cards and a cribbage board for a playing surface.
MooT is minimalist, not to say crude, in design and production. If a seal swallows a hermit, is the hermit hermetically sealed? Is urine pith? Allen, Steeves is fond of diabolical questions � but Steeves's are funnier. Steeves, 36, is a computer programmer with a history degree. This came to mind recently when I was introduced to MooT ('the East-Van word game!') and its creator, Jon Steeves.
Allen had spelled out the first name � Abraham � everybody would have identified the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Allen taught social studies at my high school, where he was notorious for diabolically tricky exam questions. Allen and sit him down to a game of MooT. Vancouver Province's Review of MooT by Shane McCuneĭoes he pillory the 'pillarist'? A MooT point.
