Close to Home by John McPherson for October 16, 2022

I had that game when i was a kid.

Bonus points to anyone who actually tried to PLAY THE GAME, because setting up the Trap to actually work was trouble enough!

And the winner gets paid today.

Meanwhile, three surgeons are across the street playing Operation (another game I never really played by the rules, we just tried to take out stuff)

Never actually played the game. Just built the trap and set it off.

You mean, the winner becomes the big cheese?

There’s the sweat.

For $1.50 I get 2 traps, next some cheese and PB, plaid coat, boots, let the beard grow, gruff the voice, sing a little French song and work the trap lines in my back yard. Sometimes a nail a mouse or a chipper, and take it to my local Hudson Bay store.

We see a mousetrap and think… “mousetrap”…

… a mouse sees a mousetrap and thinks: hmmm, free cheese and a challenge!

If only it were that simple

Hey look “mousie” to me,

You know. I’m liking that management strategy. Just setting that darn game up requires engineering skill and patience beyond most Americans and the actual play and victory are indicative of leadership through little planning, some luck and the unwilling cooperation of others.

Be careful, Bleeb: you’re small enough to be caught in the trap!

Invent a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door, or something like that.

OMG Bleeb, you don’t know where those shoes have been.

Probably not a good place for Bleeb to be, he looks too much like what they exterminate.

Hi Little Alien Dude!!!!!!!!! I’m glad you’re on the floor where you are safe. Observe from a distance, Bleeb!!! :)

Oh I get it. So the next winner of Catan becomes the next Director of Agriculture.

The next winner of Ticket To Ride becomes Secretary of Transportation.

The next winner of Power Grid becomes the next Secretary of Energy.

The next winner of Scotland Yard becomes Chief of Police.

The next winner of Carcassonne will become the Secretary of Interior.

The next winner of Everdell will be the head of the DNR.

The next winner of Dominion will be, well, the next winner of Dominion.

Amatures (or however it is spelled), using only the pieces in the game. When we played, we incorporated Lincoln Logs, Cootie Bugs, Checkers, Chess pieces, Tinker Toys, Erector Set, and other miscellaneous games and toys that happened to be within a 6 room radius of where we were playing. We even used mom’s clothes pins!

And, over at the clock repair shop they are playing a heated game of Crazy Clock to determine the next manager…

Another new game by the McPherson’s!