G… is for… Games

Which games did you play as a child? Monopoly perhaps.

Or maybe Mousetrap, was your favourite board game?

The funny thing about board games is I never got bored as a child. I loved playing games, except… when I lost! I was a sore loser. But, in a very competitive family it made it inevitable that at some stage I might lose.

My mum had an uncanny knack of adding to, amending or changing the rules as the game was in progress and bless her, she still does this, to this day. It does not matter if it is Canasta or Mah-Jong. A couple of weeks ago, after an enormous scrumptious Sunday lunch, we played Monopoly with her grandchildren. They all know her wiles and did not let her escape; the competitive streak runs through all of our family – to be the best and to be a winner.

And the funny thing was…I re-read the rules that afternoon and still learned rules I didn’t know!

When was the last time you lost your competitive edge? Or played a game you lost?