Almanac Games: Do you know this board game?

 

 

I come to you, my Almanac brothers, and sisters, to help Denise, my sister and I understand one major concern in our lives.  Here we are, with Denise recovering from her colonoscopy and me being the caregiver needed in these circumstances, playing a game that she picked up in her apartment foyer.  A discarded game left lonely and abandoned until Denise finally relented and took it home.

 

Its first foray into the world of our play is on Thursday afternoon.  After a rest and a few games of rummy tiles, we watched life from our fourth-floor windows the Larwill Studio Apartments in Parkville, people walking their dogs and running up and down the hill outside, and the sky turning from grey, to blue, to pink singed wispy clouds.

 

 

 

With our cups of tea, dried fruit and chocolate, we shifted our attention from outside to  inside a square box.

‘Footy Trivia: A game of Skill and Knowledge’. Yeah, if you were a deep footy fan of the 80’s when it came out.

 

 

There are two footy players on the back, one we know gone in awful circumstances, Danny Frawley and another player (help?). They look totally engrossed in this AFL sponsored game.

 

Maybe they understood the rules.

 

The game has long lost its small footy token.  We are uncertain whether the almond and the macadamia nuts we used as our ‘players’ were meant to be both used, or whether, after laughing so hard I nearly peed my pants, we were meant to use only one representing the ball in a game.

 

 

With 15-minute quarters set on the timer on my phone, we changed the rules several times as it became clear we were hopelessly lost in the rules. Do we move individually, or as one? We had choices, questions A, B or C.  If we moved near to the goals, we could ask a goal question.

 

 

We knew we were hopelessly lost, as we kept changing the way we played.

 

 

So we throw it out to the Almanac community.  How the hell do we play this game?  We tried to Google instructions. Zilch. I know there are enough footy nerds/brilliant minds and insane people that at least some of you may have heard of this game.

 

We will play again tomorrow.  Can you help us crazy gals with the rules?  There are some written but obviously with not enough clarity for we two so that’s why we keep making it up as we go along (because we can, says Denise.)  Thanks in advance people of the mad variety.  All hope lies with you.

 

 

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