The Game’s Up

It’s our annual tradition: Boxing Day at Janne-Maree and Phill’s for a board game bonanza. We have the staples like Balderdash and Taboo, the recent entries like Scene It and Outburst and the brand new games each year. I also discovered this is at least my fifth boxing day games day.

This year, between devouring the christmas leftovers, we played Articulate!, which ran like Taboo with the opposite rules: you can say any words to describe the word you must convey to your team-mates, but you can’t say “rhymes with…” or “starts with…”. It wasn’t helped by the egg-timer seemingly having a total of 9 grains of sand in it. The second game was called Ticket To Ride, and was quite an elaborate game of map domination as you establish train lines across America, having to fulfil “tickets” which are pathways between stations for points. We all loved it and revelled in the strategy and technicality of it. Thanks to Adam Foster for bringing that one to the table. He said it is also available online here.

Another great day to tuck the holiday season to bed until New Years’ Eve in a matter of days.