I once dated a guy whose mother had invented & produced a board game. In it, there were little cards that had a few bars of a familiar song, and you'd reveal more and more of the notes until someone guessed the song. You got points by being the first to guess the song. She told me it was widely praised in a number of periodicals about music and music education, but she had boxes & boxes of unsold games in her house. You had to be able to read music to play the game, and apparently not enough people have that skill to make the game truly marketable.
The first time I met her, she asked if I'd like one, and I said, "I don't know how to read music." "You and everyone else," she said.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 10 June 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)