July 20, 2021
As kids, my brother and I had a penchant for wrapping our plastic weapons together with duct tape and tip toeing through our home in search of extra-terrestrial life. “Check those corners,” I would say while clasping my Nerf gun turned pulse rifle, which was attached to a yellow and green Super Soaker turned grenade launcher. At some point, one of us would yell, “Contact!” before leaping about the floor and blasting imaginary Xenomorphs to smithereens. Inevitably, one of us would always get sprayed by acid and (oddly enough) morph into the Alien
King.
Yeah, it didn’t make much sense then, either, but when your 11-year old life revolves around James Cameron’s 1986 masterpiece
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A dice toss to misery: which board game causes most family chaos?
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Richard GloverBroadcaster and Sydney Morning Herald columnist
July 9, 2021 12.01pm
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After a week or two of lockdown, the board games start to emerge. In homes around Greater Sydney, the ominous words are heard: “Maybe we should play something.”
Think again. Haven’t people been through enough?
Playing board games has become a popular lockdown activity.
Credit:Daniel Pockett
First up is the battered box called Trivial Pursuit, rescued from under the bed where it was discarded in the late-’80s. Alas, all the questions are about Bob Hawke,