Race

"A game for Vulcan children" is how Kevin Maroney once described Hare and Tortoise (Hase und Igel in the German -- apparently German hares race hedgehogs). It's an apt description; the game has the external indicia of a child's game -- cute little animals drawn from a childhood fable -- but actually, it's a game of exceptional mathematical and logical rigor.

As a mile high wall of dust and moldering flame devours mountains behind me, frenzied stamped stumbling at my feet, meteors knocking out a stegosaurus, boulders crushing eggs and trees, I take the instant to thrash the neck of a small lizard, consuming it whole, and gallop toward the distant call of salvation. The meteor has hit. I have a window of seconds, no mistakes. I am a velociraptor, an agile predator. As I attempt to beat Dino Run on Insane difficulty I'm listening to footage from the latest World Economic Forum, discussing the role of private equity and hedge funds. The irony is not lost.