battleship:subway!

who: you, and your fellow train-rider

what: an epic and impromptu game of battleship staged only inside massimo vignelli's helvetica-plastered conceptual map of the new york city subway. you each have two battleships made of sixpoints and two points, and you choose locations for them-- they must be consecutive but not necessarily linear along the train lines. your opponent calls out stations, (or in the super-challenging version you only exchange line numbers...) so then once you've made a hit, you have to try all the surrounding stations to see if you can sink a ship!

when: times when you only have a map and there's still a long way to travel

where: on the train, silly!

why: well, it beats moody silence