A strange little side quest
Fill the Coffee Cup belongs to a much longer story of play than a browser tab might suggest. The word 'checkmate' is linked to the Persian expression 'shah mat', used when the king was trapped. And the history keeps stacking up: The Oregon Trail began in 1971 when three student teachers created a computer simulation to help Minnesota schoolchildren learn American history. That long chain of experiments is part of why strategy games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
