--- description: “It’s about the cones. Never forget that.” title: Parks and Rec's Cones of Dunshire Game Is Real image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Parks and Rec'_s Cones of Dunshire Game Is (Almost) Real  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 31, 2014 4:12 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 31, 2014 4:12 PM CUT From the lips of nerds to God’s ears: Cones of Dunshire, the amusingly complex fictional board game featured in _Parks and Recreation_ has become a real-life game thanks to the company behind Settlers of Catan. _Parks and Recreation_ producers originally contacted Mayfair Games to create a loose concept for the game that Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott) dreams up during time off between jobs, as _Vulture_ reported [last year](http://www.vulture.com/2013/12/cones-of-dunshire-parks-and-recreation-game-oral-history.html "undefined"). But while a commercial version of the game isn’t headed to stores, Mayfair did flesh out the concept and debut it at gaming convention GenCon, where 33 people paid $100 to participate. “I don’t think that there was a plan to produce an actual game, and whatever cohesiveness there was to the content was almost an afterthought,” Alex Yeager of Mayfair [told _Nuvo_](http://www.nuvo.net/ArtsBlog/archives/2014/08/12/parks-and-rec-game-cones-of-dunshire-to-debut-at-gen-con "undefined"), Indianapolis’ alt-weekly. “As we’ve moved forward with our planning for this charity event, we’ve come to regret that a little bit!” Scott and Aziz Ansari, who plays Tom Haverford on the NBC comedy, even made an introductory video for the event. But no word yet on whether any of the lucky gamers followed it up with a round of [True American](http://newgirl.wikia.com/wiki/The%5FTrue%5FAmerican%5FDrinking%5FGame "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3239179/parks-and-recreation-cones-of-dunshire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3239179/parks-and-recreation-cones-of-dunshire/"},"headline":"Parks and Rec's Cones of Dunshire Game Is (Almost) Real","datePublished":"2014-08-31T16:12:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:54.642Z","description":"“It’s about the cones. Never forget that.”","url":"https://time.com/3239179/parks-and-recreation-cones-of-dunshire/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","parks and recreation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3239179/parks-and-recreation-cones-of-dunshire/","name":"Parks and Rec's Cones of Dunshire Game Is (Almost) Real"}}]}] ```