Looking at the 2008 You Design the Game Design Thread, some possible connections with what has been thought of in this thread.
Mentions slick field surface.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...67&postcount=2
You can't catch a fish twice.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...77&postcount=4
A teeter-totter.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=15
Do I need say more?
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...0&postcount=41
Who knows, the GDC could have been watching...