The Goose Game

[Preston Pittman]

Hi Michael!  I purchase a replication of the Goose Game at:

http://www.gamepuzzles.com/histfun.htm

you can find the rules for the goose game at:

http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~salley/Articles/goose.html

and there is a very funny site on the Spanish TV version of the Goose Game
at:

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/set/4189/oca.html

You do know, I take it, about the occult associations with the Goose Game
and the Camino...(?)

peace,
Preston


>From: Michael Wyatt <MWyatt01aEMAIL.MSN.COM>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu>
>To: GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu
>Subject: Re: Candlemas, Imbolc, and the geese
>Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 09:46:48 -0800
>
>Hello folks-
>When over in Spain, I thought about getting the "Juego de la Oca," but only
>found children's boards (very silly design), so I kept postponing the
>purchase.  Back here in the States, all my local gaming shops (big in
>Seattle) claim to have never heard of this game nor can they find it in
>their catalogues.  Sigh.  Does anyone know where and how to get a copy of
>the Game of the Goose that does not involved going back to Spain, desirable
>as that is?
>Even more interesting to me: in Logrono, the Square outside the Iglesia de
>Santiago is paved with a huge stone version of the Juego de la Oca, mixing
>famous buildings and bridges of the Camino with the traps and details of
>the
>game (death, maze, well, jail...).  Marvelous to walk along, rather
>postmodern in making the secret connection the open reference.
>Preston, thanks for the reference back to the Dagenais listserv; I am
>getting more interested in this game.
>Michael

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