🇬🇧 EnglishIndoor games for kids: what each one actually trains
Most lists give you fifty names and no way to choose between them. Sort them by what they train instead, and the choice makes itself.
The notebook
Long-form stories from behind the game: how things are built, what broke along the way, and what we learned about tabletop football. Written by Miguel Ángel Villar Alarcón, who builds the game — one article at a time.
🇬🇧 EnglishMost lists give you fifty names and no way to choose between them. Sort them by what they train instead, and the choice makes itself.
🇬🇧 EnglishEveryone can fold one. Almost nobody agrees on the scoring — and the folding mistakes that make a bad one are always the same three.
🇬🇧 EnglishMost foosball arguments are not about the rules. They are about which set of rules you were playing by, and nobody said so at the start.
🇬🇧 EnglishYou can play right now, free, in the browser. And if you want the real thing, here is the shortest possible shopping list.
🇬🇧 EnglishTurn the figure over. The base tells you the decade before you have even looked at the shirt.
🇬🇧 EnglishThe Manchester United box in your loft is worth about a fiver. The odd little Continental side next to it might be worth two hundred.
🇬🇧 EnglishA 22 mm ball, figures under 4 cm tall, and one principle that quietly explains the entire rulebook.
🇬🇧 EnglishTen card teams were on the first price list in 1947. Everything Subbuteo became was already in that decision.
🇬🇧 EnglishSubbuteo sold the grandstand first and the corner unit second. Everything about stadium-building is in that order.
