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Some of you may know the Rule of 72 (or 70): If you have money compounding interest at R% per year, it doubles in value after roughly 72/R years (for single-digit R). A handy rule for assessing how much you can expect of your investments/loans. But there's also a Rule of 125: If you pay in a fixed amount of money into something that compounds at R% per year, it doubles in total value after roughly 125/R years (again, for small R). Handy for assessing long-running regular-deposit savings plans.

Board game of the day: Glen More by Ravensburger. You play Scottish clans extending their lands with fields, quarries, castles, lakes, and of course whiskey distilleries. Your clan gets victory points for having more chieftains, special places, money, and whiskey than the other players. New land/production/special tiles are selected from a common sequence of increasing effect, but you can only place them around your clansmen and possibly only along your road or your river. You can skip ahead to better tiles at the price of giving the other players potentially more turns and tiles. When you place a tile, it and all tiles around it are activated, providing resources, production, movement of clansmen, and various special effects. With this great little game, Ravensburger shows they can do "real" Eurogames and not just children's/family games. The tile selection system balances tiles nicely, the layout restrictions require forethought, and there are multiple possible strategi...

This time, the Japanese got it just right. Solves three of the biggest bike problems in one swell foop: overcrowded racks, bike theft, and standing outside in the rain. http://9gag.com/gag/aXb4LRz?ref=android