Win it before you can buy it! The first copies of the game were given away at the Ultimate 155 Readathon Finishers party. On Monday Nov. 11 the base game will be available for purchase at the Woodmere front desk for $17 per game.
Visit the page for any game clarifications as they arise.
Please note:
- This is game is similar to library operations but we've left out some things to make it easy to learn and easy to play.
- The cards, game play, and rules were all created out of the imagination of a TADL employee. Any coincidence to any other game or playing card is coincidental.
- The cards and packaging were designed in-house by the same TADL employee that invented the game.
- Special character cards were created with the verbal consent and approval of the TADL employee on the card.
Special Character Cards
TADL staff member cards that bestow additional library powers for more points and perks!
- Batch 1 - 10/11/2024, First nine cards released
- Batch 2 - 10/15/2024, Five new cards released
AI Disclosure
While recognizing this is an emerging technology, we have strived to meet the highest standards available at the time of original card game creation. We used this as a fun learning experiment to learn more about the technology itself, including its advantages and limitations. If you would like to learn more AI and libraries, here is a link to videos from the first GAIL Conference earlier this year.
Artificial intelligence (AI) via Deep AI was used to generate images with people that are in the deck. The use of AI was restricted to the approximately 1.5" square image near the top of the card, under the large typeface heading.
The AI images were generated with text descriptions only, any resemblance to real people or TADL employees is coincidental. While specific existing styles provided by Deep AI were used (for example, children's book illustration) the text descriptions were limited to generic requests only (for example, woman in business clothes with curly black hair).
AI images used on special character cards to stand in for real TADL employees were created with the full consent and approval of the TADL employee on the card prior to printing.
Here is a copy of the Deep AI content policy in effect when the images were created (August, 2024):
- Generated Content License
All content generated by Deep AI's tools and APIs are free of copyright - you may use them for any legal purpose you wish including commercial use.
You agree not to use any services on Deep AI:
- In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation;
- For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;
- To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;
- To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual;
- To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;
- For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual's legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;
- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;
- To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
- For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;
- To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation;
- To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).