Hobbyists beat professional designers in creating novel board games
This kind of thing has been shown in all sorts of creative endeavour. But it ignores consistency, which is the main mark of professionalism.<p>Yeah, if you disregard all rules and norms <i>sometimes</i> you come up with something AMAZING that no-one following the rules could ever conceive of.<p>But <i>most</i> of the the time it's just crap.