When my truculent and die-hard non-vegetarian 11-year-old nephew visits India for about 10 days and stays in the staunchly vegetarian household of his grandparents, the trauma over meal times leaves an indelible expression. It’s only appropriate the family brought me a board game called Tension, from a singularly inappropriately named UK-based company, Cheatwell Games.
As the flight departed and peace prevailed, tension palpably dissipated, and Tension the game, could finally be opened. Two teams compete against each other and a sand timer, to correctly list 10 possible answers to topics that range from “we should have known that” to “there’s no way we could have known that”. When the opposing team draws a card, your team yells out possible answers in quick time. If your answers match the 10 answers listed on the card, you win points.
I managed four of 10 characters from Lord of the Rings. I should have got at least three more. Courtesy Jurassic Park, I knew three of 10 “types of dinosaurs”. Tension is a fabulous game and can be used as a very clever learning device. The game board tracks progress each round, and builds in little twists along the way. For the impossible nephew who sought every opportunity to establish the superiority of the UK over India there is a card of 10 British inventions.
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