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I've created a monster!
Posted on 2005.07.17 at 14:36Mood:
drained
When I moved to Sweden, I didn't bother bringing my any of my games
other than a travel version of backgammon and a deck of cards. For one
thing, I was severely limited on how much stuff I could afford to ship
by boat. And for another, I knew that my favorites board games, Trivial Pursuit and Balderdash, were too English-language and American culture-centric to play competitively with anyone over here other than fellow ex-pats.
I've since had the opportunity to play Swedish versions of both Trivial Pursuit and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" at parties and family gatherings, and the same situation applies in the reverse. Even if I can get past the language issue, many of the questions are very Swedish culture-centric.
Dr. Darling, being in many ways a stereotypical nerdy scientist, didn't own any games when I got here, but to my surprise does enjoy playing Trivial Pursuit...or "TP" as it's commonly called in Sweden. So when we came across the Trivial Pursuit Globetrotter Edition during a shopping excursion yesterday, we had to buy it. The questions, rather than being divided by subject area, are divided by world region...which really levels the playing field.
What I didn't realize when we bought it was that I would have to spend the rest of the weekend playing it. (With only two players...it can take awhile to get all six coloured wedges.) I had to call a time-out to even get a free moment to blog about it. Even losing two out of three games so far does not diminish Dr. Darling's enthusiasm for playing this game.
Somebody save me please.
I've since had the opportunity to play Swedish versions of both Trivial Pursuit and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" at parties and family gatherings, and the same situation applies in the reverse. Even if I can get past the language issue, many of the questions are very Swedish culture-centric.
Dr. Darling, being in many ways a stereotypical nerdy scientist, didn't own any games when I got here, but to my surprise does enjoy playing Trivial Pursuit...or "TP" as it's commonly called in Sweden. So when we came across the Trivial Pursuit Globetrotter Edition during a shopping excursion yesterday, we had to buy it. The questions, rather than being divided by subject area, are divided by world region...which really levels the playing field.
What I didn't realize when we bought it was that I would have to spend the rest of the weekend playing it. (With only two players...it can take awhile to get all six coloured wedges.) I had to call a time-out to even get a free moment to blog about it. Even losing two out of three games so far does not diminish Dr. Darling's enthusiasm for playing this game.
Somebody save me please.
