"A quipu usually consists of cotton or camelid fiber cords, and contains categorized information based on dimensions like color, order and number. The Inca, in particular, used knots tied in a decimal positional system to store numbers and other values in quipu cords. Depending on its use and the amount of information it stored, a given quipu may have anywhere from a few to several thousand cords. [...]

Inca administration used quipus extensively for a variety of uses: monitoring tax obligations, collecting census records, keeping calendrical information, military organization, and potentially for recording simple and stereotyped historical "annales"."

-Wikipedia

SVWAG's Pickaxe stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t8XLnJha-E

Games Played Last Week:

00:55 -Marvel Dice Throne Missions (Gavan Brown & Nate Chatellier, Roxley, 2025)

05:03 -It's a Wonderful World (Frédéric Guérard, La Boîte de Jeu, 2019)

09:03 -The Fellowship of the Ring: Trick-Taking Game (Bryan Bormueller, Office Dog, 2025)

12:03 -Corporate America (Teale Fristoe, Nothing Sacred Games, 2013)

15:23 -Tidal Blades 2: Rise of the Unfolders (Tim Eisner and Ben Eisner, Druid City Games, 2024)

18:03 -Captain's Gambit: Kings of Infinite Space (AC Atienza, Alvin Lee, and Mitchell Loewen, Cloudfall Interactive Studios, 2020)

23:51 -Lacuna (Mark Gerrits, CMYK, 2023)

27:12 -Stellar Conflict (James Ernest & Tom Jolly, Artipia Games, 2015)

29:48 -Figment (Wolfgang Warsch, CMYK, 2025)

31:53 -Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester (Changhyun Baek, Flaminia Brasini, Virginio Gigli, Stefano Luperto, and Antonio Tinto, DiceTree Games, 2023)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

35:43 Reprint of At the Gates of Loyang

36:09 Fat Bear week comes to its climax! https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

37:19 The Hobbit: There and Back Again roll-and-write by Reiner Knizia

37:42 Dogs of War reprint: controversy over hats

38:38 Wandering Galaxy: A Crossroads Game

39:50 Cross-Bronx Expressway by Non-Breaking Space and GMT Games

41:26 Cranio expansion pack on crowdfunding Oct. 1st: Barrage, Rats of Wistar, Golem

42:09 Feature Game: Ayar: Children of the Sun (Mandela Fernandez-Grandon & Fabio Lopiano, Osprey Games, 2025)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices