Hey Sarah.

Hey Charlie.

So our listeners know you and I are video chatting.

I'm in New York and you're in California.

Right and I have someone to show you this.

Yeah it looks like you're holding up a checkerboard or something with red and yellow squares.

What is it?

This is the first version of the game of life.

Really?

Because it doesn't look like the way that I remember it.

So there have been many different iterations of the game of life over the years.

But this is where it all started back in 1860.

And to get a sense of just how different this version is from what we played today,

I hopped on a livestream with a couple of my friends and we gave it a try.

I found these old buttons and one thimble that we could use as playing pieces.

Do you guys want to pick?

We're really playing like 1835 or whatever.

So I made this board Charlie by printing out all the squares from the original 1860 game,

blowing them up and then glue sticking them to this piece of cardboard.

Of course you did.

Do I see some pink spots where perhaps the ink kind of didn't fully?

I did have to replace the ink cartridge.

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