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William Daniel 'Dan' Troyka is an American game inventor whose most famous game is Breakthrough (2000). It won the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition sponsored by Abstract Games Magazine, About Board Games and the Strategy Gaming Society. Troyka created more than 30 board games and invented the Cross-Mancala meta-game, which includes three mancala variants: Cross-Wari (2001), Cross-Kalah (2001) and Cross-Endodoi (2002). He lives with his wife and two young children in Wildwood subdivision. His hobbies are photography and travelling.

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  • William Daniel 'Dan' Troyka is an American game inventor whose most famous game is Breakthrough (2000). It won the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition sponsored by Abstract Games Magazine, About Board Games and the Strategy Gaming Society. Troyka created more than 30 board games and invented the Cross-Mancala meta-game, which includes three mancala variants: Cross-Wari (2001), Cross-Kalah (2001) and Cross-Endodoi (2002). He lives with his wife and two young children in Wildwood subdivision. His hobbies are photography and travelling.
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  • William Daniel 'Dan' Troyka is an American game inventor whose most famous game is Breakthrough (2000). It won the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition sponsored by Abstract Games Magazine, About Board Games and the Strategy Gaming Society. Troyka created more than 30 board games and invented the Cross-Mancala meta-game, which includes three mancala variants: Cross-Wari (2001), Cross-Kalah (2001) and Cross-Endodoi (2002). Troyka is the best Camelot player of the world, winning the WCF Camelot World Championship Tournament in 2003 and 2009. In 2004, he won the 4th U-Con Abstract Games Tournament and, in 2008, the 8th U-Con Abstract Games Tournament, the latter with a record of 6 wins, 1 loss and 0 ties. After Troyka had graduated from Princeton University in 1990 (Russian and Eurasian Studies), he earned his Juris Doctor with high honors from Boston University Law School in 1994. After that he worked for a law firm in Paris (France) and served as law clerk to justices on the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the Rhode Island Supreme Court. In 1997, he moved to Boston MA, where he practiced litigation and bankruptcy law and, in 2001, he served as an Assistant Prosecutor in the Boston Municipal Court. In 2002, he moved to Saline, MI. Since then he works as a lawyer for McKenney & Philbrick, P.C. in downtown Ann Arbor. He lives with his wife and two young children in Wildwood subdivision. His hobbies are photography and travelling.
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