S03 E10 Data Knight and the Admissions Arcana Game

Coffee and Coals is the behind the scenes corner of The Innovation Forge Podcast, where I talk craft, systems, and the weird little experiments that turn into real tools.
In this episode, I’m opening the workshop door on my game, The Admissions Arcana, a Google Sheets training game you can play solo or with a team. It deals you a four card draw, Season, Topic, Practitioner, Student Persona, then inspires you to build a real enrollment project from the prompt, Apples to Apples style.
Get the free Google Sheet game now - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

We also reveal a new Enrollment Aces character.
The Data Knight
Queryssa Joinsalot the Metricsbane
Motto: “I shield the yield from the chaos of bad data.”
Origin story
In the early days of chaotic data seas, when duplicate records ran rampant and funnel fog swallowed every prospect list, a lone analyst forged her armor from discarded exports and misaligned fields. She became the Data Knight.
Her shield was hammered from the toughest Configurable Joins, polished until it reflected every engagement signal with perfect clarity. Her sword was tempered in the fires of Liquid Markup, sharp enough to cut through the densest of untagged records.
Where others feared the Maelstrom of Melt or the Siege of Stale Queries, the Data Knight rode forth. She defended institutional strategy from the creeping shadows of Bad Data and wielded predictive modeling like a trusted steed. At every Slate Summit she rides again, guarding the fortress of clean CRM practice and training novices in the art of data chivalry.
Known for
• Slaying duplicate records before they breach the portal gates
• Guarding the integrity of engagement scoring and predictive models
• Wielding Configurable Joins to stitch together fractured datasets
• Training new Slatewrights to wield Liquid Markup with precision
• Holding the Melt Maelstrom at bay with a single clean export

How to play The Admissions Arcana
Open the sheet and click the Forgeworks Grimoire card to draw four cards


Interpret the spread together, Season sets the moment, Topic sets the work, Practitioner sets your method, Student sets the audience


Build something real in your system, a query, a Deliver plan, an event flow, a scoring tweak, a dashboard, anything


Share your round, I want to see what you forged


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#TheInnovationForge #CoffeeAndCoals #AdmissionsArcana #SlateCRM #EnrollmentManagement #HigherEd #DataStrategy #PredictiveModeling #EngagementScoring

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And the Eldraliths pop up yet again...