# This is a weird, weird, weird, weird Kickstarter campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300 "2013-07-12T11:25:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/1 "2013-07-12T11:25:26Z")
OK, adjust your thinking belts as this one is going to hurt your brain. It’s the [Dominoker Game.](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/957708157/dominoker-game) What should be just another innocuous game, turns into this mathematical insanity sidled up to a pyramid scheme. Don’t take my word for it, check out the well-produced video. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/2 "2013-07-12T14:15:21Z")
…What the hell was that about? Seriously, it looks like a Kickstarter for a weird dominoes/poker blend, goes into some weird math/physics bullshit for no apparent reason, then back to complex rules explanations (that I don’t know if they’d even make sense to a dominoes player), then into descriptions of all the stuff you have to have to play (including a hardcover rules manual) and finally dreams of online play and winning Big Prizes. I just… wow. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/3 "2013-07-12T15:09:03Z")
I refuse to believe that those photos came from the same source as that video, and I likewise refuse to believe that either of those came from the same source as that tag-phrase: > [@](#): > > Most motivate game ever imagine where Impossible become Possible and Simplicity reach the Perfection,Balancing Numbers, Balancing All All… idiosyncracies of language are directly from the original. I just noticed at the highest “pledge” level (I’m thinking that should be changed to “buy-in” for this particular effort), one gets the honor of a personal visit with the creator to “Learn from him how to live in balance ,connected and happy…” That’s just… odd. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/4 "2013-07-12T15:10:57Z")
So, someone made a Time Cube board game? ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/5 "2013-07-12T15:23:05Z")
> [@kickstarter webpage](#): > > Stretching Goal: > \ > $160,000: Creation of the first Dominoker Club & Academy (TWIN-TWIN store ) First and foremost: educate, prepare the world for the imminent arrival of a new era, where the work based on intellectual power of man’s will set US free. A new era? A.D. will mean “anno Dominoker”? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/6 "2013-07-12T15:48:04Z")
That cannot possibly be real, can it? I mean, WTF? Of the many, many aspects of that presentation that confuse me, almost every dominoker game they show being played is using dominos with what looks to be like regular black pips (although some go to 9 instead of 6). I thought part of the domino-poker blend was using the various suits of the card deck in a game. But in all the shown examples, I don’t see any evidence of any type of poker influence in the game. It just looks like a straight-up dominos variant. Now, why am I analyzing this so closely? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/7 "2013-07-12T18:11:14Z")
I sense a strong dose of Gary Busey has been put into that video. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/8 "2013-07-12T23:27:33Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > So, someone made a Time Cube board game? Sadly, nothing as creative as that. Looks like someone took to playing [cuban dominoes](http://www.educaplaying.com.mx/prod.php?id_prod=CR1) too many times, invented a rotating table after no one wanted to play dominoes with him any more and had some earth-shattering “insight” which he HAD to share with the world. ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/9 "2013-07-13T14:13:35Z")
Near the 1:00 mark: “After accumulating 12,619 matches online…” Near the 3:30 mark: “IQ Dominoes Corp is currently developing a software to make this fun and innovative game available over the internet” One of many odd discrepancies in this video. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/10 "2013-07-13T14:19:24Z")
Sweet logo though. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/11 "2013-07-13T14:25:00Z")
The law of mathematical-physics? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/12 "2013-07-13T14:29:04Z")
It seemed interesting at first, but then it devolved into a bunch of random words, I swear it’s like they were just making a big joke. How do I get the Ferrari? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/13 "2013-07-13T14:34:44Z")
A gambling game made by L. Ron Hubbard? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-a-weird-weird-weird-weird-kickstarter-campaign/663300/14 "2013-07-13T14:39:47Z")
I’m extremely impressed by the ability of the narrator to go through that entire schpiel while sounding completely authentic. If I ever get rich, I plan to hire him to read all of my spam out loud.