Glass Bead Game "... is a (Nobel prize winning) novel by HermannHesse. It is also the key image in that novel: a game played by associating ideas around which an entire society is built." (c2.com wiki entry)

This phrase/title seems to be cropping up more and more frequently, so I thought I'd have a closer look.

"There were for a while a few attempts to use the web as a medium for game playing: a "move" would be a URL, more or less..."

seeAlso : Hip Bone Games, played on, like, a circuit board...