It was a cold snowy night in Worcester MA many years ago.
David Voegele had just left the monthly meeting of the Shoelace
Collectors And Riddle Enthusiasts Society (SCARES), and needed
to wake up (a common problem for members leaving a SCARES
meeting). So before starting the long trek back to Greenfield he
stopped at McDoogles for a coffee, and sat at a small square table.
While sipping the brew he began to have a vision. He saw a design
appear on the table. It was a strange design, one that he had never
seen before - and he did not know what it was. Then it occurred to
him. "This is a gameboard" he cried out. The manager glanced
over. There was no one left at McDoogles at 11:55 on this cold
January night, and he wasn't sure he liked having some strange
fellow, wearing a baseball cap with the letters SCARES on the front,
sitting there yelling to himself. To make a long (and somewhat
boring) story short, the manager asked David to leave, since the
place needed to close in a few minutes anyway. So David left, but
he could not get this image from his mind. As he drove the 90
minutes back to Western MA he could think of nothing else. And
then, all of sudden, the rules to the game popped into his head. He
realized how the game would be played. He wrote the rules in his
head, and then on paper when he got home. Then he sat at the
kitchen table and drew 47 drafts of the game design, until at 6am he
cried out "Eureka!". It was done. CORX was invented! It was
perfect...or so he thought. 10 years later he was still perfecting it,
until it truly was perfect - as much as anything can be perfect when
the world is not in fact a perfectly perfect place. But it was perfect
enough that night. CORX was born! David celebrated with a
refreshing shot of luke warm carrot juice...then collapsed on the
sofa and slept for 18 hours.
