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1. What board game could you play endlessly without getting bored? 

My own set is nowhere near this nice!

    Tripoley or Scrabble. Tripoley is best when played using the insane, bastardized version created by my dad's side of the family. It is loud, sometimes slightly violent, cutthroat, mercenary, and hilarious. And very, very fun.

    Scrabble, I love, but there aren't too many people who will consent to play with me. Not that I'm so brilliant at it—the last few times I played, I lost, and not by a little bit—but the perception is that I'm going to clean the floor with you. Kind of like Trivial Pursuit, where the assumption is that I'll know every single History answer before the question is even completed. That's totally not accurate; most TP History questions are about something other than World War II neutrality, after all. I'm much better at Sports and, surprisingly, Science.

 

2. Which game has caused the biggest family argument? 

    Monopoly, I'd guess. That game is fraught.

    If we move beyond board games, then it's got to be air hockey. The incident mentioned here still rings in my mind when considering the mild-mannered-ness of my opponent in that game.

 

3. Did you ever make up your own games as a kid? 

    no, as a youngest child I cannot imagine that would have been entertained as an option 

 

4. What’s the weirdest or rarest game you own? 

    a version of Monopoly based on my hometown. It's as bizarre as it sounds. 

 

5. If your life were a board game, what would it be called? 

     Warm Places. The point would be finding a safe space to land. Players build sanctuaries (and Christmas trees) rather than empires. Cats and friends feel free to sprawl, breathe easier, and be themselves. 

6. Do you prefer strategy games or luck-based ones? 

    strategy 

 

7. Who in your life cheats (or “bends the rules”) the most?

    I seem to recall never losing to my brother, when we played games as children. Surely that's coincidence, right?

[ChatGPT blog meme questions, a set called '🎲 The Board Game & Playtime Meme'; the title quotation is by Matt Haig, from The Midnight Library]