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Virginia guitar maker Brian Calhoun devised a strategy game called Chickapig. (It features pooping chicken-pig hybrids.) Now he's getting some friends — like Dave Matthews — to spread the word.
Brian Calhoun (right) makes guitars for musicians like Dave Matthews, but his newest creation is a board game called Chickapig — and he had a board custom-installed in Matthews' tour bus.

Dave Matthews is sitting in his tour bus, at a table inlaid with a custom board game.

"If you roll '1,' you just want to move the cow one [space] and not poo, that's your decision," he says. "Although I would always poo."

Poo is just one of the obstacles as you make your way across the board. The goal is to get your flock of fantastical creatures safely to their destination (and poo-free). And Matthews wants to make it hard for his playing partner Brian Calhoun.

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