All in the game

It's not often that I can boast about being good at a game for I'm a complete non-sports person: always short of expertise and stamina for outdoor games. Even with indoor games, I can just about save my face. With the exception of one particular game. It's called Boggle. Have you ever heard of it? It looks like this:

Yes, you guessed it right. It's a word game where you need to make as many words as possible-rules apply-within a stipulated time. There are points assigned vis-a-vis the number of letters in a word. Bigger the word, higher the points. The player with the maximum points emerges winner. A minimum of two players can play; there is no upper limit, though if there are too many then the fun is lost since common words get cancelled out. 

The grid holds the letter cubes and the box needs to be shuffled and placed with all the cubes falling into the grid. The timer is then set and the players need to write out as many correct words as possible.

I've always like word games but this game is my favourite with scrabble coming a close second, not because I've a knack for it (pardon the immodesty, please) but because in my opinion, scrabble is also about chance. You need to be lucky to get favourable set of letters. However in this game, there is equal opportunity present to all. It is a game of quick thinking, attention and concentration.

Over years, the game was introduced and played with a host of friends, cousins, aunts and uncles- a wonderful way to pass time and bond. There are lots of good memories associated with this game. The silly fights and arguments over the validity of a particular word-we'd even sit with dictionaries to prove our point and in the process stealthily look for possible words that can be made, override the timer to scribble in the last few words,  fight over points, oh, the small joys!


Alas! being a good player comes with its share of disadvantages. What's that, you ask? Well, no one likes to lose you see and worse is to have the same person win almost all the time. The winner being, ahem.. yours truly. These people have even boycotted me from playing the game. Jealous people!

So, friends, that's the story of this lovely game, Boggle.  It's been ages that I've even looked at this. Maybe someday, I'll play this again. R might be my new game partner. 
I took this out specially to click pictures of it. Things that I've to resort to, to keep this marathon going!

Have a happy week!