board games
Jeremy Vine: Save our cycle lanes
‘Stopping the diary/’ wrote Philip Larkin, ‘Was a stun to memory,/ Was a blank starting.’ I never really understood those…
What are the best pandemic board games?
Dangerous games Sage scientists advised against playing board games at Christmas. Some games to consider if you are feeling subversive:Pandemic…
The dark art of playing world-class Scrabble
How to win at Scrabble
Is Monopoly feminist?
I’ve been playing a lot of Monopoly recently. My son got his first grown-up set for Christmas and, even after…
The best Christmas gift you can give yourself is to learn some poetry by heart
Every Christmas I find I am living in the past. I blame my father. He was born in 1910 —…
Monopoly is fascinating – as long as you don’t try to play it
I knew there had to be a point to Monopoly. The game itself is tedium made cardboard, the strongest known…
