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Interventions

UISP round t@ble

19/05/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

19 May 2022: UISP, as part of an Italian festival dedicated to gaming, organized a round table entitled "The game and its social and educational importance" on Saturday 21 May. Among the speakers, our Furio Honsell and Dario Zaccariotto.

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Publications

Sottosopra on Enigmistica24

06/05/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

6 May 2022: Enigmistica24, the insert that studiogiochi curates for Il Sole 24 Ore, comes out on newsstands, with a page dedicated to Alex Randolph. In particular we are talking about Sottosopra, the puzzle game that was attached to the Unicopli 1998/99 catalog.

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Interventions

Presentation of the mental calculation book – Mestre

06/05/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

6 May 2022: the UAAR of Venice organized the presentation of Il grande libro del calcolo mentale (The Great Book of Mental Calculation), a mental strengthening manual for having fun with mathematics. The author Dario De Toffoli and the mathematician Furio Honsell were present.

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Interventions

Happy birthday Alex!

04/05/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

4 May 2022: today it is exactly 100 years since the birth of Master Alex Randolph! We will celebrate the birthday of the first Game Author together with a live broadcast tonight at 9:30 pm, in the company of Dario De Toffoli, Andrea Angiolino and the friends of Fustella Rotante.

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Jogos do Mundo‘s tribute to Alex Randolph

03/05/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

3 May 2022: Dario De Toffoli has been the guest of Game Masters, a series of episodes of the Portuguese channel Jogos do Mundo dedicated to the greatest game designers of all time, to talk about Alex Randolph.

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Interventions

IDEAG 2022 in Parma

02/05/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

2 May 2022: studiogiochi participated in the 17th National Meeting of Board Game Authors as a speaker at the panel on commissioned game design. An opportunity to test dozens of games and promote the Archimedes Award.

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Press review Mental Computing Championship

30/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

2 May 2022: the press review of the last Mental Calculation Championship is online; there is also a TV service broadcasted by two Italian channels.

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Interventions

La Fabbrica della Scienza: videos and photos

30/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

1 May 2022: some videos and photos of the Day of Mental Calculation at "La Fabbrica della Scienza" (The Science Factory) are now available. Dario De Toffoli was the special guest of the event.

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Publications

The Big Book of Quick and Mental Calculation

29/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

15 March 2022: finally in bookstores the Mondadori edition of this titanic work! A unique and ingenious volume, a journey full of tricks and surprises to discover fast calculation, a true manual of mental enhancement. Not to be missed!

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News

PokerStars News tells about Lex Arcana

28/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

28 April 2022: a beautiful article by Nicola Pagano tells the story of Lex Arcana, the most successful Italian RPG born from the creativity of Leo Colovini, Dario De Toffoli, Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello.

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La Nuova Venezia interviews Leo Colovini

26/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

25 April 2022: La Nuova Venezia has published a nice interview with our Leo Colovini, in which he talks about the beginnings and the evolution of his career as an author of board games.

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Interventions

Etna Comics joins Alex100

23/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

23 April 2022: the international Etna Comics festival joins the Alex100 initiative with an exhibition and other cultural events to remember and make known the great Randolph.

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Imagining Sagaland: Alex Randolph and the aesthetics of games

22/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

22 April 2022: Tuesday 26 April Dario De Toffoli will participate in a round table dedicated to Alex Randolph, organized by the GAME Science Research Center as part of the conference "The role of images in games: from aesthetics to function".

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Interventions

Mental Calculation Day at the Science Factory

21/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

21 April 2022: the exhibition "La Fabbrica della Scienza" in Jesolo organized for Wednesday April 27 a free guided tour for the finalists of the Mental Calculation Championship residing in the Triveneto area. Host of the event Dario De Toffoli.

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Il Gazzettino interviews Dario De Toffoli

16/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

16 April 2022: the local newspaper Il Gazzettino published a nice interview with our Dario De Toffoli, who spoke about the book Il Grande libro del calcolo veloce e mentale, published a month ago in the Mondadori edition.

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Events

Published the ranking of the Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2022

11/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

11 April 2022: the final ranking of the Italian Mental Calculation Championship has been published, together with the story and photos of this extraordinary event.

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Events

Final of the Italian Mental Calculation Championship 2022

07/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

4 April 2022: there are only a few days left to the live final of the Italian Mental Calculation Championship, which will take place on Saturday 9 April at the Luiss University in Rome. Find out the details!

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Events

Italy Backgammon World Champion

07/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

6 aprile 2022: Italy is Backgammon World Champion, having beaten the Japanese squadron in the final, in the beautiful venue of the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido of Venice.

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Review in La Gazzetta di Parma

05/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

5 April 2022: La Gazzetta di Parma talks about our Grande libro del calcolo veloce e mentale (Great book of fast and mental calculation) in a beautiful review signed by Cesare Pastarini.

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Interventions

Alex Randolph’s ludography updated

04/04/2022 cristiana.giuriato@studiogiochi.com

4 April 2022: not much more to wait, the highly anticipated Alex Randolph - Artist and author of games - will arrive shortly by Cosimo Cardellicchio, published by Unicopli in the InGioco series, we can't wait to read it! But in the meantime we have a succulent preview, the updating of the ludography, edited by Giuseppe Baggio.

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