News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
MEMPHIS, TN – Local man Quinton Parker went to a friend’s house Friday afternoon, ready to finally play a skill-based board game perfect for strategic masterminds like himself. Unfortunately, there was a problem with the game because upon his defeat the board game suddenly transformed into a game of random chance.
“I just don’t understand – all of my decisions were genius and masterful while I was winning,” said Quinton Parker. “But the moment I was defeated, I realized it was just a complicated coin toss, nothing more.”
His opponent said he thought he remembered making multiple in-game decisions that led to his success, but apparently it was “all luck” and “the winner was decided at the start.”
Quinton explained that despite planning ahead and making strategic, tactical troop placements and calculated risks, everyone might as well have been playing Candy Land the whole time, and no skill whatsoever was involved.
“This game is entirely based on luck,” he said. “We might as well have flipped a coin and called it a day.”
At publishing time, before returning the game for being defective at best and false advertising at worst, Quinton was talked into playing the game one more time.
Go here to read the rest. If I win, I am just a shade less able than Napoleon. If I lose, the luck of the dice was against me. When in doubt, always blame the dice.
To be fair, there ARE games that are almost entirely based on luck. A popular such game in my house is Catan.
The article is faulty.
We all know, from federal and state law, that only *womens’* minds are capable of altering reality, such as changing a living child into a clump of her own cells.
Dave Griffey’s family is partial to large and complicated board games. We have a shirt-tail who has been a member of a number of board game circles during his adult life (he is 38 and a new father). I’m remembering the line in the movie Diner uttered by one of a pair of buddies from Baltimore lost in Maryland horse country: “Do you have a feeling there’s a lot of stuff going on we don’t know about?”