Day Sixteen: My name's Danielle and I'm an Ingeniousaholic

Our challenge yesterday was actually, for us, a relapse. There's this amazing board game, called Ingenious, that my friend introduced to us back in February while we were on holiday together. As soon as we got home, we bought ourselves the game, and played it non-stop, two or three times a day, for probably about a month. We were evangelical about Ingenious, to which anyone who had the pleasure of spending any time with us during that month would bear witness. 

But it was, in all honesty, too much of a good thing. We were obsessed. So we had to break the cycle, which we managed to do (which is a relief because it wouldn't have been long before we were turning down invitations to social events in favour of playing Ingenious, or ignoring the cleaning that needed doing in favour of playing Ingenious, or not eating in favour of playing Ingenious....and where would that end up? Addiction is serious kids.) 

Hence why I said yesterday was a relapse. It was a wonderful, heady experience that made us remember the days gone by, and why we had fallen so hard for Ingenious. It's an.....ingenious game. Perfect for two players (which I find is quite a difficult attribute to come by in games), it also works well for up to four players. It's a sort of dominoes-cum-chequers hybrid whereby you link tiles of matching colours and accrue points based on how many matching colours you arrange in a single row. The ingenious bit is the scoring, though. You're trying to be the first to reach the end point, but also you don't want to be the player who's furthest behind. It's hard to explain on here but basically, it's great! Go and play it right now!