Chompendium: Eat What Fits

A category is posted. A grid of tiles is dealt. You walk square to square and eat only the tiles that satisfy the category — and something else is already on the board with you. Every tile is a small judgment made under pressure, which is what turns knowing something into learning it. THREE SUBJECTS, FREE. TWO EXTRAS, ONE PURCHASE. WORDS, NUMBERS and THE WORLD are the earnest ones, and they are free — all of them, not a trial. Six boards each. Nouns and verbs, plurals, prefixes, and words that are spelled the way they sound and words that are not. Counting, halves, multiples, primes and times tables. Which animals are mammals, which metals rust, which cities are not countries. Things that are true, checkable, and safe to hand to a child, banded so a first board never turns into a third one. THE TRAY is the joke, and the joke is a real ruleset. Eat what is botanically a fruit. Eat what…