People who buy MooT - are the luckiest people (feedback)
Hi MooT Guy,
Thanks for your prompt response...I played the game at a friends house and it is now a buzz in our tiny town. Scrabble has been the usual game but your game is very fun, challanging and interesting. I have ordered two games and intend to send the second game to my sister living in London UK. We are spreading the word!! I look forward to recieving a game of my own...
Thanks again
Michaela Kafer
As always Moot challenges the mind an sends a fiery storm across ones
synapse. Just to let you know that by playing Moot as a family, our children have excelled academically beyond belief. My son graduated from College w. honors, our oldest daughter has been accepted to one of the oldest and most selective and elite Ivy League schools in the nation and is the valedictorian for her class; and lastly our youngest girl is a member of the Society of High School Scholars and speaks fluid Italian. They are all well-balanced children and enjoy learning;still as a family.
[Mootguy: I'd like to think that this was due to MooT, but my guess is that it might also have something to do with parenting.]
nccshrine at gmail.com
… I had guessed "Jennifer." I see I was wrong, but while we're at it, let me ask what the etymology of Jennifer is, and let me add that we've loved your game for years and want to thank you a thousand times for the hours of joy (and knowledge) you have given us.
Zev Shanken
Hi, I heard about it from a friend who raves about it. He plays every
Sunday.
[Mootguy: Note: If you are Jewish, we recommend that you play it every Saturday.]
Adrian English
I first experienced MOOT at a UNITARIAN family summer camp at Naramata, BC in July 2005, and later purchased a copy for myself. I love it!
Last week, I attended a similar week-long UNITARIAN family summer camp at Seabeck, Washington, and introduced several campers to the game. To say the least, it was a hit! Several campers from Washington, Oregon, and BC asked where they could get their own copy of MOOT. I referred them to your website.
If you receive any orders from Washington and Oregon in the near future, they may have originated at this camp.
[Mootguy: Many were received.]
John Poley
I hope this goes up on your review/comment board. But
if not, please take the kudos from grateful parents.
I
purchased your game about three years ago for my daughter. She’s a real
‘smarty pants’, but really the whole family plays when we are together.
Anyway all three of our children have been written up in Who’s Who? Or the
National Dean’s List, and have been courted by the best Colleges and
Universities across our Nation.
I know that Moot had a
hand in it, whatever questions they got wrong; they had to look them up (we
adults did too).
Most board games are banal without any
real challenges. Moot is a wonderful game that challenges the intellect to the
brink of what you thought you knew. We are earnestly awaiting Moot
II.
Preacherman7 at hotmail.com
Hi, I bought your game in the Vancouver Art Museum.
When my own kids were younger, we played it at the
dinner table, and now I sometimes let my high school 11th grade English
students play in class when they've been very good. I also may use it in my
Latin classes.
I'm thinking of starting a Moot Club at
my school. I particularly find the questions about word derivation useful.
Thanks! if you have any new questions or anything,
please let me know.
Claudia
DeSantis
Thank
you for constructing a wonderful pastime, a way
to test ourselves against the vagaries, nooks and
crannies, and roots of our English language, even
a way for know-it-alls to learn something every time.
Richard Lederer and William Safire have nothing on
you.
[Mootguy: In fact, they're afraid of me.]
Warm regards,
Rick Bryan
I'm always a little leery of replying to a "list"
name, for fear of embarrassing myself by misdirecting a personal reply to
hundreds, if not thousands, of strangers who expect traffic only every few
weeks.
But anyway, Mr. MootList, I heard of MooT when my
daughter (a sophomore in linguistics at New York U) gave my wife and me a MooT
game last Christmas. I can't say how she heard of the game, but she seems to
have landed on several linguist mailing lists, so one of those is a fair bet.
It is all too easy, with Trivial Pursuit, to read
through all the cards a few times and wind up memorizing many of the answers.
Trivia can be like that. Given the all too limited number of MooT cards (only
1008? is that all?) we chose to ration ourselves to just a few hours at a
whack.
We played the good guys (two or three of us)
against the bad buys (mistakes). We would lap the bad guys on the board four or
five times before bedtime, even when giving them double moves. Sometimes we
disagree with the answers, but, as you say, our complaint would be with your
references, not you. My kids used to make fun of me for reading the dictionary.
My fledgling linguist daughter now joins me in mining Greek and Latin
dictionaries for nuggets. Recently I wanted an -ism for "beating a dead horse".
How about psophihippomastigonism? psophios - dead, as of animals hippo - you
know mastigono - horsewhip The Greek, if lengthy and not exactly euphonic, is
somehow cooler than something like mortequine flagellation. When not being a
word nerd, I am gainfully employed in developing computer software for
scientific research, most recently protein simulation for drug discovery. I'll
try to think up a killer blurb.
But meanwhile, thank you
for constructing a wonderful pastime, a way to test ourselves against the
vagaries, nooks and crannies, and roots of our English language, even a way for
know-it-alls to learn something every time. Richard Lederer and William Safire
have nothing on you.
Warm regards, Rick
at pobox.com
Hello Mr MooTGuy,
I received your game as a Christmas present and it
is so cool!!! (My mom ordered it from you.)
I don't think it's too hard at all - I was playing
it with my brother (age 14) and my sister (age 10) and they were getting a lot
of the questions right. It is
definitely the best board game I have ever played.
Avril
Kenney at mmcollege-prep.org
Moot has been my favorite board game
for a long time, and I am always trying to push it on people. I am a member of
a very large community weblog called metafilter (www.metafilter.com), and I want to create a post
recommending your game.... Hopefully, I can drive some business your way.
[Mootguy: Thanks for
doing this, Richard. There was quite a surge of activity on my website, with
hundreds of people signing up for the mailing list. Note that word-of-mouth is
the only way that people ever hear about MooT.]
Richard
Dub at gmail.com
Thanks for sending MooT. We look
forward to getting it as we are giving our copy to a friend. I learned about it
in a game store in Vancouver last summer; they recommended it.
It is one of the, if not THE, best intellectually
stimulating games I've ever played (there's a blurb for you to use!).
[Mootguy: This one is going on the side of the MooT
box.]
We looked for copies here
in the States at a big game store in Berkeley. They had never heard of it, so
we told them to find it and get it! This game should be in every game store
worth the name.
[Mootguy: Evidently, it is one of those CIA
fronted game stores (they're all over the Third world). Since receiving this
email, I have been investigated by the US State Department, and they have
banned me from traveling in the US unless I am accompanied by a
neo-Conservative lexicographer.]
You know, small ads in the professional association
newsletters of several organizations, such as the Modern Language Association,
could generate a LOT of orders I would think, esp. as word of mouth spreads
about how great MooT is. thanks again for a brilliant game.
Greg McLauchlan
at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Thanks for the confirmation, I look
forward to getting the games. One is to be used as a Christmas gift and the
other is for ourselves.
We played MooT
a few weeks ago at a friend's place, their names are Simon and Anne. Anne said
she received the game as a gift a while back from her sister, who is from out
west.
They have modified the rules
slightly though, and I thought I mention how:
1) We played using a cribbage board. Simon said he
preferred one longer game over many shorter games, since a run of bad answers
can effectively ruin a team's chances of winning.
2) If you answer a question incorrectly you loose
the points, but you cannot go negative.
3) You can also choose to 'pass' and not answer a question, not loosing
anything. This means there are some pretty serious discussions late in the game
about how sure on person is about their answer.
4) There is no formal "challenge" process for
points, only gloating rights by being able to tell them how wrong they are and
why without reading the answer first.
Our one game lasted about three hours or so, with lots of time
spent checking references after the fact.
Not that we don't believe your answers, its just
sometimes you need to know exactly why you were wrong. We had such an
entertaining (and educational) time that we just had to buy one for ourselves.
I am very pleased to read that you
haven't dumbed-it-down yet, since that would rob those that consider
dictionaries to be appropriate bedtime reading from enjoying your game (my
father owned his own personal copy of the Oxford Unabridged, that tells you the
kind of household I grew up in).
Thanks
for making such a great game and I wish you all the business success.
[Mootguy: In the
instructions, the first rule of MooT is: "If you don't like my rules, make up
your own." I am please to see that people are doing that and making the game
work for them. Thanks.]
Eric and Heather at yahoo.com
Hi! I haven't got around to ordering
Moot, yet... got to get past the next paycheque... but until I do, let me tell
you how I heard about you.
I met a
freelance writer at a party put on by a local magazine (Boulevard -- Victoria,
BC) and she told me that she had the greatest game in the world and that I
would love it.
[Mootguy: I like her
already.]
Fast forward a few
months... I finally got to play a round two weeks ago and the writer told me
how sad she was that she didn't know how or where to buy herself another game
or two to give to friends.
[Mootguy: My marketing strategy is
working. One correspondent called it the "opposite of hard
sell."]
I'm a librarian who
loves a challenge so I did a little surfing based on some of the information I
found in the writer's older version of the game and found you. I passed the
information on to the writer and decided to get a game for myself,
too!
S. Wiles at University of Victoria, B.C.
I am a member of the Dictionary.com
forum at Propero/Delphi. Someone posted a link to your site yesterday and
mentioned that they had only gotten about four out of ten questions. Most of
the members of the site are inveterate word-a-holics, so I'm sure you'll get a
lot of hits and new members from the Dictionary.com participants.
[Mootguy: The last time I did it
I got 3 out of ten.]
Stephen Rovinsky at qjpmchase.com
Every few days or so, the Chicago Sun Times lists a web address for "Our favorite places on the 'net." In Saturday's paper, your web address was listed. It sounded interesting, so I checked it out. Very interesting, and very entertaining. I will be placing an order for the game come October for a birthday gift for my live-in girlfriend. She and I love to feed our brains with activities such as this.
Thank you!
Michael Alan
Hi,
thanks for sending MooT; we look forward to getting it as we are giving our copy to a friend. I learned about it in a game store in Vancouver last summer; they recommended it.
It is one of the, if not THE, best intellectually stimulating games I've ever played (there's a blurb for you to use!).
It's a blast, whether played in corporatist or collectivist mode.
We looked for copies here in the states at a big game store in Berkeley--they had never heard of it, so we told them to find it and get it! this game should be in every game store worth the name. You know, small ads in the professional association newsletters of several organizations, such as the Modern Language Association, could generate a LOT of orders I would think, esp. as word of mouth spreads about how great MooT is.
thanks again for a brilliant game.
Greg McLauchlan
Thanks so much for sending this to Montreal!
McGill students work very hard and it takes something amazing to entertain them in their brief downtime. The fact that your game was played at a Department Party and was a wild hit speaks volumes for it. I can not wait to play it!
Emilie
Chamberlain
Dear MooTguy,
In answer to your question as to how I heard about MooT, a friend of mine had purchased MooT a couple of years ago at a bookstore and I have been searching for it every since. It's my absolute favourite game and we play it anytime we have a gathering.
Whenever we have a games night, MooT is a given!
We hold a girls night once a month and play it, so exposure to the game has been growing. We also played it at a Bachelorette party this weekend and everyone loved it. There are a few of us that would love to get our hands on our own copy!
Is there anywhere in Vancouver that I could go and pick up a copy as I don't have a personal credit card and would prefer to pay in cash? Please let me know.
Best regards,
Kristina Peszel
My husband and I are ardent Moot
enthusiasts, and have endeavored to hook many of our friends on your addictive
product.
[Mootguy: See note on horse tranquilizers
below.]
Needless to say, in our years of playing your engrossing
diversion, we have devoured all 1,008 paralyzingly witty questions.
[Mootguy: According to the rules, you're supposed to read the
questions out loud.]
As
Americans, we know that you Canadians can't get enough of our Yankee dollars.
[Mootguy: He has a point there.]
Assuming that 1,008
more questions were available to us, how many of the aforementioned Yankee
dollars might we be asked to proffer in return? We eagerly await your response.
Meyl at earthlink.net
We found the game up at my friends
cabin on New Years eve this year and had a blast playing it. I'm a real word
fan. This game made my mind work in wonderful ways.
[Mootguy: Experiments have shown that the MooT effect is similar to
MDMA mixed with horse tranquilizers.]
D. Wallen at telus.net
Dear Author of the Toughest Word
Game,
All the questions are rather
interesting and extremely useful, and now as I got the game at last I can't but
admire the simplicity and complexity of the design and the idea of the
game.
I use Moot in my classes with 3rd
year students. They showed genuine interest and it was decided that we would
try questions every time we have classes. I personally get to know a lot and I
may suggest another idea for you to probably be used: why not organize the
questions on the cards of some particular color: like, etymology questions-
say, pink, country studies ones - green, grammar - blue and so on. I think in
that case there will be more rules how to play the game... Thanks again for the
game and enlarging the scope.
Elena from Moscow
I am English and played moot with a
Canadian family when I visited for thanksgiving.
I was astonished and delighted to find that such a
thought provoking game existed. I do not fully subscribe to your website's
views about its prospects for distributing it to a wider audience. I would
agree that it is unlikely to meet true mass appeal without dumbing it down a
lot but in its present form it could still reach a greatly enlarged audience. I
would be happy to discuss this further if you have interest. In the meantime, I
would like to buy 3 sets and enjoy playing again - it is altogether too much
hard work doing it the homespun way with an etymological
dictionary.
Jeremy Oades at hotmail.com
thank you for hours of fun. I've
been playing MooT with my children and friends for years now. When we (BCIT
faculty) were on strike about 3 years back I took handfuls of cards to the
picket line and a few more fans were born. My son is teaching English in Taipei
and a year ago I tried to find a game to send to him, but the bookstore I had
bought mine in (a small independent on Granville St.), Chapters, and other
stores I phoned told me it had disappeared.
My son arrived on holiday from Taipei last week,
and desperate to keep my own copy, I searched again, this time online - and
there was the website. Because there is nothing on the site to indicate who was
providing the service, I was not ready to commit my Visa, but the Google search
also included an interview with you, and several locations were listed at the
end of that, including Hager's Books in Kerrisdale.
I phoned Saturday, they had two in stock, I bought
them both; these two are travelling back to Taipei with my son. I've asked
Hager to phone me when they get a third, so I can give it to my daughter in
Calgary - another fan. Again, thank you for such a fun game. I'm glad to find
the rumours of the game's disappearance, and yours, "greatly exaggerated".
Valda-Jean (VJ)
Johnston (valdajean__shaw.ca)
I ordered 2 Moots .... How did I
find out about it? I am a teacher and I was in a workshop last week.
We began talking about word games and
one of the presenters said, " You have to get Moot! I bought one for each of my
kids for Christmas and they have had a blast with them!" She gave us the web
address and the rest is......... history. I ordered 2. One to have at home and
one for my classroom. I tried the sample questions on your website. FUN and a
great learning tool, too.
Lea S. Jones (Skj9920__aol.com)
we heard about 'MooT' while visiting
our local indie bookstore "the Reading Well" and encountering an acquaintance
who had recently purchased a set and was very keen on it, ( I had played
scrabble against her at previous local literacy tournaments).
Maxwell Newby
(woodlands__pei.sympatico.ca)
Actually, I've been on the mailing
list before, and I am switching addresses. I don't remember how I originally
found out about the game. It was online somehow, and I hinted around at my
birthday that if someone didn't get it for me I was just going to have to buy
it myself.
I would like to kiss
whoever it was that made this game.
[Mootguy: !!!]
Not
only that, but I would love to extensively pick their brains. See, I'm a huge
nerd, and nearly every one of these questions gives me the giggles. One of my
favorites is "Are dead disco dancers defunct?" I actually have that one on my
wall. Thank you, and feel free to ask me any other questions you would like to.
:)
Marlea
(Marlea__mchsi.com)
As a returning student to
university, this time in Philosophy (I am a Political Science graduate, I find
language, the various aspects and usage of it very interesting. I intend to
specialize in either the pre-socratics or Locke (your local language
philosophical hero) AND Artificial Intelligence from both a Philosophical and
peripherally technical perspective (I have several, now semi-antiquated
diplomas, in computer programming). Again the use of language in information
transfer activities becomes fascinating.
THANK YOU for making such a fun tool available to
everyone!
Christina Varga (vargacm__myway.com)
I heard you speaking on the CBC some
years ago about your game and was quite intrigued and kept your web site in my
favourites but never did anything about it. This summer I met with a friend of
mine from Ontario who has Moot and told me it was a great game so am finally
getting my act in gear.
Anthea Piets (apiets__shaw.ca)
Years and years ago my sister (who
had been living in Halifax, NS, at the time) brought it home (Grand Falls, NB)
for Christmas. We played in mixed teams (adults and kids) for hours! I
remembered the adults answering the hard questions and us kids getting the
easier ones (Yogi Bear and serge de Nèr)mes come to mind). Anyway, my sister
brought it back to Halifax with her but during her move to Newfoundland a few
months later it got lost. And we mostly forgot about it. So, last year I
started hanging out with linguists (I was dating one at the time) and the topic
of games came up so I told them about this game my family played. But I
couldn't remember the name. It finally came to me just a few weeks ago. So I
hunted it down on the Net. And voila!
Medgar Marceau (mmarceau9__yahoo.com)
Thank you for making our Christmas
such an enjoyable and educational one. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with
all this expansion of my vocabulary and deeper understanding of the nuances of
English - but I'm sure it will come in handy some day ;-) However, we are
coming near the end of the first 1008 questions and wonder if you have plans
for a further set. Looking forward to hearing from you.
[Mootguy: Note: There is a second edition available now. It's called MetaMooT. It has 1008 new questions and it is a bit harder than the first set. If anyone actually reads this and want to find out more, emaim me at mootlist@mootgame.com and put "metamoot" in the subject header.]
Barbara McGavin at focusing.uk.com)
I don't recall how I heard about it.
However, I bought the game back in 1990 and, according to a note sent with it,
I was the first American to get one.
[Mootguy: To be precise:
you were the first American to actually pay for it. Five MooT games were stolen in New
York at a street fair earlier that year.]
My daughter is now in grad school and she enjoys
the game so much, I thought I'd buy her a copy of her own. With only a little
Googling, I found your site and ordered her a copy.
I'm glad you're still making this wonderful game.
It has brought us many hours of enjoyable conversation.
Tom at scrubjay.org
My wife and I bought MooT at a
Vancouver bookstore in August 1996 on our way to teach English in China. I
suspect ours is one of the most traveled sets, as it became an indispensable
teaching tool in Taiwan and Australia, as well as a fixture in our backpacks
through Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Now back in Saskatoon
[Mootguy: A Canadian prairie-town with a river and an
artificial ski hill. Huge tourist trap.]
, I was elated to come across
the website yesterday. I look forward to an occasional stumper from you.
Lee Smith at hotmail.com
When my mother-in-law died we found
it [Moot] amongst her stuff. We took it with us on a sailing trip to Desolation
Sound last year. We pulled it out the first night and it was an instant hit. We
played it every night of the trip and have been playing it with the same group
regularly since. We have decided to send it to like minded friends for
Christmas.
Fowlerr at direct.ca
I bought Moot at our local "Game
Trek" store in Toronto for my husband for Christmas. We are *huge* language and
math puzzle people and a lot of the games out there are just too easy for us
;). This one keeps us on our toes! We have nearly gone through all the
questions, and we're hoping that you'll find the time/energy to come up with
more!
[Mootguy: MooT II is scheduled for release sometime
before 2009, maybe.]
Sarah Rainsberger at mostly-math.com
By the way, I love your game, I've
bought at least 6 and am responsible for spreading it to countless others since
discovering it in 2000. You should give me a free box of questions. Just
kidding.
[Mootguy: He didn't get a free game, but I did reply
to his email.]
(dwong__brunico.com)
I bought my copy of Moot at a book
shop in Vancouver while working there in 1999. I returned home to Australia in
2000 and have been playing it with friends and family ever since. It's a
fabulous game - probably the best we've played.
[Mootguy: I
only had to buy Alan one case of beer to get him to say this. Australians are
nice people.]
We never get tired of it. I hope that you're making a
decent return from it, as I would imagine it's not the easiest product to
market.
Alan at merchantwise.com.au
I bought the game last summer in
preparation for the linguistics class I teach each spring [Penn State
Harrisburg]. My class (due to the required subject matter) can sometimes be
boring and difficult: I have to teach traditional grammar (parts of speech,
this is a noun, that is a verb, etc.) as well as history of the English
language and an intro to linguistics (semantics, morphology, phonology, syntax
and language variation).
[Mootguy: Boring? Sounds like heaven
to me.]
The class is designed
for future English teachers, and the curriculum is set by the Pennsylvania
Dept. of Education. I used your game to liven up class for a few minutes (5-15)
once a week or so. The class met for 75 minutes twice a week. Thanks for making
the game. The students learned from it and had fun with it.
Cheri Ross
I stumbled across your website (I
have no idea how) a couple of years ago and kept talking about it, so one of my
friends bought the game for my birthday.
Now, it's my dad's birthday and I couldn't think of
anything better for the man who has everything (and who loves to correct my
grammar). It really is a great game.
K Stadum at hotmail.com
My father-in-law had a MooT game. I
say "had" because it's been in our possession for well over a year - we have
slightly better luck in finding folks to play it with us. But I'll eventually
get around to buying on either for myself, so he can have his back, or for him,
since we've had his for so long.
MooT
is certainly our favorite board game. "Scrabble" is alright, but my wife always
routs me when we play. In MooT, however, I can hold my own. And if, on a given
turn, I can't hold my own, then I learn something. So it's a win-win situation
all the way around! It's a great game. Thanks again!
Joshua
Barron at hotmail.com
I met someone recently who said "I
know a game that you'd love. I need to loan it to you." She was right.
Actually, I just put in an order (via
PayPal) and the first set that I'm buying is a gift for someone else! I think
I'll eventually need my own.
Best to
you, and many thanks for this splendid creation!
J. Blatter at gmail.com
My wife's sister came into town from
Canmore, Alberta and we took her straight from the airport to a pub where she
was meeing some of her friends that she used to tree-plant with.
Her friend was raving about this game he was
finally able to track down and he happened to have it in his bag. So he pulled
it out and we were passing the questions around and having a blast trying to
figure them out (I'm sure the beers helped).
We had a few English degrees there (I'm just a
lowly biologist...) so we were getting quite a few right. It's a great idea for
a game and I decided to get one for myself and one for my brother and his wife
who are both high school English teachers.
[Mootguy: I've noticed over the
years that tree-planters make good MooT players. Correlation? Cause-effect? I
have no idea.]
Dennis Jacques
Hello Mootguy!We just bought Moot for a good friend who is a gamenut and turning 50. I agree, the teams of 2 to 4 are the way to go. Are you the game's creator?
I'm asking because, in response to your question regarding how we heard about Moot, about 10 years ago we were visiting my father in-law, Frank, and his wife, Elaine, who live on Keats Island north of Vancouver.
Frank had discovered it, and they gave us the game as a gift, so we were playing Moot, having dinner, drinking wine. We were having a great time, and at some point a disagreement came up about a rule. We went back and forth and eventually opened the box and read the instructions, then realized that the name of the game's creator (you?) was listed in the box.
We gave you a call and talked through the whole question and figured it out.
[Mootguy: Note: Things have changed. I don't do this anymore. Now, if you phone, you only get to speak to my handlers or, if you're lucky, someone in my entourage.]
It was an incredibly fun and memorable evening.
Thanks for a brilliant game. It's our favorite.
Cheers,
Tom Steinmetz and Sarah Murphy
Minneapolis, MN
Hello Mr. Mootguy,
Thanks for sending the games. I first heard about this game when, on a quiet urban evening in early August of 2007 (while I sipped on some fine Spanish red wine and while in the background I could hear the sizzling of salmon steaks and asparagus over a barbecue grill) a friend asked me if I wanted to play Moot. My friend and I have continued to play ever since on a weekly basis, although, sorry to say, we didn’t know that there were rules, or game strategies until I read about them in your message below.
Although our setting may yield similar results than the one you propose, our game is much simpler than yours: a room with two people playing at proving that the one is smarter than the other: it is, ultimately, a vain and shameless attempt at demonstrating our language skills. Being a novice of (at?) the English language, I am particularly proud of being able to put up a decent fight when it comes to word definitions against a skilled adversary, although grammar and style is my Achilles heel.
In any event, your recently received games will go to great homes: Medeine, a poet and translator (Lithuanian-English) living in Lithuania; Jonathan, a Toronto-born writer living in Germany; and an ex-lover who studies languages in Philadelphia.
By the way, if you ever dumbed down or ‘cleaned’ Moot, you would deprive it of its wonderful irreverence and whimsical appeal. So please—finances permitting—keep it is as is.
Best regards,
Esther Berzunza
Hi, I bought your game in the Vancouver Art Museum. When my own kids were younger, we played it at the dinner table, and now I sometimes let my high school 11th grade English students play in class when they've been very good. I also may use it in my Latin classes. I'm thinking of starting a Moot Club at my school. I particularly find the questions about word derivation useful. Thanks! if you have any new questions or anything, please let me know.
Claudia DeSantis
I found your game in a lovely local bookstore, Mosaic Books, about oh, 10 years ago now. I bought it for my dad, then a year or two later I went back to buy another one as a gift for my husband and Mosaic didn't have it anymore, but they gave be your website and phone number. Then I phoned you and you were so nice and you sent me another game.
Audrey Campbell in Kelowna
Hello MooTguy:
I'm returning to your mailing list, actually. I heard about your game through a friend about 5 years ago and got in touch with you and purchased the game at that time. I was living in Victoria, then. Out of the blue, I got a job in Phoenix and, of course, brought MooT with me and have now introduced it to my new circle of acquaintences. They are hooked and so I hope you can expect a sudden rush of purchase requests from down here!
[Mootguy: Phoenix is a MooT hotbed now. They've even renamed one of their major thoroughfares "MooT street" - or so I've been told, anyway.]
Until a job opens up for me back up in Canada, again, I will spread the word about MooT south of the border!
Cheers!
Sandra
I already own the game and spotted the website in amongst the paperwork!
It's a great piece of work, and we greatly enjoy playing!
Thank you muchly!
Dan Caseley
Nottingham, UK
Thank you for a wonderful opportunity to become reacquainted with MooT! Our son, when he was in Vancouver, purchased the game and brought it home to share with the family. It was an instant hit. Am considering purchasing a copy for our house (in Oklahoma), since our daughter in Florida has that original game. A delight for anyone who enjoys words - what a delightful and enlightening world it is!
Thank you,
Joanne Anstine
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