Growing up, my family took to the board game Trivial Pursuit shortly after it came out, and played it seriously. Not grimly; we had a lot of fun. But it was a game with definite answers to clear questions and that's how we approached it.
I dated a guy for several years, and his family played board games too -- Yahtzee among them, which I'd never played, but they approached with brisk precision. So imagine my surprise the evening they got out Trivial Pursuit game and proceeded to play it very lightly, a game so hard no one could be expected to know most of the answers, an occasion for bluffing and swapping hints where the points didn't really matter. And they had a nice time with it, too.
Even when we're playing the same games, we don't all play them the same way. And it doesn't mean the people playing it differently are necessarily doing it wrong, either.
Ah, Yahtzee. Remember it from my Navy days when we'd play it at the bar to tell who would pay fpr the drinks. Before your time. Didn't know it was commercialized.
ReplyDeleteHey, a subtle reference to the current political situation. Well done, well done! ;-)
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