Kurt Vonnegut's 1956 letter pitching GHQ to the Saalfield Publishing Company in Akron, Ohio, from the Kurt Vonnegut collection at the Lilly Library. The game was rejected at the time and didn't ...

Avid Vonnegut fans know GHQ, short for General Headquarters, as “the lost board game” — a little known, failed attempt by the “Cat’s Cradle” author to break into the world of tabletop ...

With the permission of the Vonnegut estate, Engelstein went on to tweak GHQ into a publishable state, give it some appropriate graphic design, and get it published after 70 years sitting in obscurity.

It could have been a contemporary of Risk, Diplomacy, and other legendary wargames Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published ...