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Go Spotting: Buzzfeed's "10 Awesome Board Games" and Bananya

Buzzfeed's "10 Awesome Board Games": Go made Buzzfeed's list of "10 Awesome Board Games You Probably Haven’t Heard Of" back in 2012. It came in at #6, behind Eureka, The Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Diplomacy and Say Anything, but it did beat out Agricola, Wits & Wagers, Puerto Rico and Betrayal at House on the Hill. "While 'Go' is, in essence, two players just taking turns laying stones on a grid," says BuzzFeed, the level of depth to the game is actually astounding. photo: Luis de Bethencourt / CC BY http://2.0 / Flickr: luisbg; thanks to Joshua Guarino for passing this along. 

Bananya: In the current season of the anime series "Bananya," the main character is seen watching TV during Episode 3 with one of the channels being a televised go game, reports Grant Farmer. "Bananya watches the game for about 12 seconds and, as a cat who lives in a banana, does not understand the game," says Farmer. "The nature documentary style narrator of Bananya asserts it was a good move, but admits to not actually knowing."