Board game enthusiast and NYU Game Center teacher Geoff Engelstein was stunned to find, while trawling the archives of celebrated author Kurt Vonnegut at Indiana University, evidence that in 1956 Vonnegut developed, and spent a year pitching, a board wargame to publishers.
Alongside the letters, Engelstein found an original, complete set of rules for GHQ: General Headquarters, Vonnegut's simple board wargame. It was never published, but Vonnegut of course went on to incredible fame, particularly for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
