A hardscrabble existence

Another idea pitched by Rob Krier. I decided to use the folks from Grant Wood's 1930 painting "American Gothic." It was Rob's idea to have a player star

ing at a tray full of vowels, which, of course, are impossible to form into a word if there are no other words on the board yet. I rested the farmer's pitchfork against the table. Photoshop made it a lot easier to draw the game board from scratch than it would have been if I had attempted it freehand. I did, in the original sketch, but it was aweful, so I ended up using the line tool.