PevansTo Win Just Once magazine
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To Win Just Once
IntroductionTo Win Just Once is the title of my 'zine, the first issue of which was published in February 2000. The focus of To Win Just Once is on games and playing games by post, but I also write about other things – notably science fiction and beer. Up until the end of 2003, To Win Just Once was only published on paper. Since then it has also been available as a PDF to browse online or download. The main postal games are also published on this website. Below is some more information about the postal games in the magazine and about subscribing. But most people's first question is "where does the title come from?". The title of the 'zine is taken from Irish rockers, The Saw Doctors. To Win Just Once is on their third album, Same Oul' Town.
Games playedThere are four games currently (January 2008) running in To Win Just Once. The main one is my postal game of En Garde!, the swashbuckling role-playing game. My game, called Les Petites Bętes Soyeuses, has its own section on this site. Follow the link for details. New players are always welcome: e-mail Pevans. Railway Rivals is a board game of building railway lines between towns and then racing trains across the network. It works well by post, using a structured format of turns. Our sixth game is in progress and you can add your name to the waiting list for the next one: e-mail Pevans. Star Trader is a board game published by SPI in the Eighties and adapted for postal play. The game is mainly about buying and selling commodities on an interstellar basis, but has scope for piracy, sabotage and all sorts of double-dealing. The latest game, Mission of Gravity, has just finished and you can sign up for the next game: e-mail Pevans. Great White Hunter is a Battleships variant open to all subscribers to To Win Just Once. Players score points by guessing where 'animals' are on a grid. the latest game finished in January 2008. Easy Money is a share trading game devised by Chris Boote. It ran from April 2005 to July 2006 and was open to all TWJO readers. Players started with some funds and bought and sold four stocks over 12 turns. The most cash at the end won the game. A game of Fictionary Dictionary, open to all readers of To Win Just Once, ended in May 2005. Players provide fictional definitions for a couple of obscure words and these are published anonymously. Players then vote on their favourite definition for each word - which scores points for the author. After ten rounds, whoever has the most points wins. Congratulations Pete Holland! The Bonking Game finished in April 2004. It was an opportunity for the readers of To Win Just Once to pick on each other. Each round (issue), readers nominated ('bonked') one other reader: anyone who got too many nominations at a time was out of the game. Last one left won (congratulations Andrew Kendall). Follow the links at the top of the page to take a look at the PDF version of the 'zine. Or e-mail Pevans and ask for a sample paper copy. Subscription rates are shown below. SubscriptionsThe PDF and online versions of To Win Just Once are available free of charge. Or you can subscribe to the paper version – which includes the cost of playing in any (or all!) of the games (send an e-mail to To Win Just Once, if you'd like a sample copy first). If you want to play in the games through the online 'zine, you need to take out a "Games only" subscription. The subscription rates are shown below and include postage and VAT, depending on where you live. To subscribe, send a cheque or postal order (payable to Margam Evans Limited) in pounds sterling (GBP) to TWJO, 180 Aylsham Drive, UXBRIDGE UB10 8UF, UK. Or pay online (through Games from Pevans) with a credit card (handled securely by Paypal) or from your own Paypal account. Just click the appropriate button below. My PayPal account is Games at pevans.co.uk (this will be on your bill as Games from Pevans) - don't forget to send me your address. If you'd like to be notified when a new issue of TWJO is published, e-mail TWJO with this request.
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