The Empress of Whisky and I play a lot of games: board games, card games, role-playing games.
We’re pretty competitive about the board and card games, and we are most definitely not that couple you hate because they’re always helping each other out when you play a game with them.
Hell, no.
In fact, we have a saying: “I love you … outside the game.”
(In a sign of how seriously we take this, the line made its way into our wedding vows.)
Inside the game, we fight like strangers at best, but more often like neighbors with a long-simmering dispute over that one tree on the property line that no one wants to prune or rake up after.
It’s awesome.
We love playing games with friends, and we’re always thinking it’s been too long since we went to or hosted a game night. (It always is!)
But we also play a lot of two-player games, just us, head-to-head.
That’s how we spent New Year’s Eve, ushering in 2020 at the dining room table over a series of games.
Then we got up and played several more on New Year’s Day, after brunch and while the black-eyed peas were still simmering.
As we were doing this, I decided it would be a great thing to write about, since it’s a subject I haven’t hit on before — at least, not regularly — and I’d been looking for something in the semi-regular feature category that wasn’t just more whisky.
So, here we are then.
First proper post will show up shortly after this one, detailing those games we played on New Year’s Day, then others will follow throughout the year as we play through our collection.
Oh, right. The collection.
We have a lot of games. Like, a lot, a lot. So many that storage is becoming an issue. Thus we’ve decided, with reluctance, to prune out a few.
The only fair way to do that? Play ’em all, of course.
May the best games win.
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