The office Christmas party

Tomorrow night sees our office Christmas party -- entitled Moonlit in Marrakech -- taking place for the second year running at Legoland.

This might sound exciting, until you realise that by Legoland they mean in a big marquee in the car park, rather than in amongst the park rides. The Marrakech theme extends to "exotic" [belly?] dancers, cous cous, coffee, peppermint tea, the chance to win a free carpet and the crowd-pulling Camel Rodeo machine.

Dodgems, casino, disco, leering Morrocan guys behind the free bar, assorted bongs, and crappy coaches, complete the night.

Unfortunately, due to cashflow issues, I'm not going.

Obviously I'm gutted to be missing out on the Camel Rodeo.

...so much so, that I've got the hump.

This season's new board game

According to Facebook's 100 Question Geek Test, I am geekier than 94% of the general population.

That's a fair assessment.

As apart of my Grand Geek persona* I am often tagged as the "board game guy", as I'm the one out of our friend circles to produce -- and demand to play -- new board games at any and all social occasions.

Last year's Christmas board game was GiftTRAP, as recommended by my game designer friend Tony, and it ticked all the right boxes: Beautiful components, easy, fast and fun game play. I think everyone who has played it has enjoyed it, and I think two or three additional copies have been purchased off the back of our sessions.

This year's new party game, purchased after considerable market research, is Wits & Wagers, which seems to be the next big thing in party games and, if you believe the hype, "the best trivia game ever".

I'm looking forward to inflicting it upon friends and family over the coming weeks, and excitedly busted open the box last night to check it out. Looks good, looks quick (20 mins a game), looks simple, looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.




* As opposed to my Grand Puppetmaster persona