You and your opponent, for this is a game for two players only, each take possession of a hand of thirteen beautifully drawn cards. NOW, WHAT EXACTLY IS A SKYPE?Īnyway, this is how the game works. STOP SHOUTING KAREN, I’M TOO OLD TO LEARN NEW THINGS. ‘GOD, just plug the filaments into the clobbergeist and fitzwoodle the flibbity-jibbs, WHAT’S SO DIFFICULT ABOUT THAT?’ All this ‘leading suits’ and ‘trump cards’ nonsense is how I imagine it feels to be a computer neophyte being instructed how to use Skype by an impatient and tech-savvy niece. The truth is that Mrs Meeple enjoys this game considerably more than I do – she took great pleasure in repeatedly crushing me until it became obvious at one point I hadn’t understood a thing that was going on. I’m told it’s a trick taking game but-honestly – how would I know? It’s really weird and it also means I’m not a great person to review the Fox in the Forest. As soon as I stop fixating it’s gone and I’m left saying ‘So, I was playing Hearts with Stalin on top of a mountain, when Superted flew in…’. I can occasionally briefly get a faint sense of comprehension but it’s like a half remembered dream. It’s like my head is a hard-drive with malfunctioning sectors. I suspect whatever parts of my brain that are needed to retain the idea just can’t hold it. And every time I admit to this in public, without exception, someone will rise to the implied challenge and eventually retreat defeated. Occasionally I say ‘Ah, now I get it’ just to make it stop. Every single time it’s like attending a lecture given by Charlie Brown’s teacher. One of my more relevant secret shames is that I have no idea what a trick-taking game is and I have had this concept explained to me a good ten or so times by extremely earnest and helpful people. Hang on – if you’re a cop you have to tell me, you know. I can’t ever tell that story unless I want to spend the rest of my life dead in a Balinese jail cell. Dark, terrible shames that nobody must ever know.
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