A strange little side quest
The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Shape Madness is anything but tiny. A major archery competition held at Finsbury in England in 1583 drew about 3,000 participants. The same trail leads to another fact: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. That gives Shape Madness a little more company than it first appears to have.