A SECRET WEAPON FOR DICE

A young Jack Kerouac after made his personal game; so did the novelist Paul Auster. The writer Robert Coover wrote a complete novel about a gentleman obsessed with a game he’d invented. In 1948, an 11-year-old kid named Hal Richman took to his basement to escape an abusive father and wound up inventing Strat-o-Matic, which can be often credited f