The Game of Things

We used to play board games quite frequently with Rick and Tara and Ryan back when we lived in Pennsylvania.  Here in Myrtle Beach, we don't really have people to play with.  Fortunately, Rick and Tara are visiting this week.  This led us to buy The Game of things for $20 at Books a Million today.  It was the most entertaining $20 we spent this week.

The game is incredibly simple.  It gives you a card with a category, and each player writes down an answer.   After the answers are collected, they are read aloud.  The players then guess who said what.  For example, the category may be "Things you do not say in a job interview".  There is a point system, but frankly, it doesn't matter.  What matters is having fun.  The game's description actually says it is more about laughs.  We, of course, mocked that line, but it turns out to be true.

The game is simple enough that anyone can understand it and play.  It's not meant to be a real thinker, but it made us laugh more than we had the whole trip, thus far.  There was so much laughter that someone may have peed a little, someone may have continually farted, and someone lost a pencil in his belly.

The game can be tailored to the people playing.  If you are going to be playing with children, the game will obviously lose some of the fun that we, as four adults, had playing it.  We were incredibly inappropriate, but that was part of the fun.  The goal became to make each other laugh.  At one point in time, we actually just started making it about making fun of Mark.  Luckily, he's a good sport.

If you have a few friends and want some laughs, pick up The Game of Things.  If you want it to be, it will be hilarious.  Even if you aren't playing with ridiculously inappropriate adults, I'm sure it is still a fun game.  You will get out of it what you put into it.  We are actually afraid of how bad it would have gotten if we were drinking...