Irving Finkel

It works out rather well.

Once I was in California, in the Getty, and I had to give a talk about this with all the information, because there's lots of things to say about it.

The lady who ran the Friends of the Getty had a brilliant idea.

She bought in 20 or so commercial copies of this game, and they had small tables with chairs,

And after the lecture, I was supposed to say to everybody, okay, this is what you have to do.

This is how you play.

Because you can get the rules down in like three minutes like this.

So I said, okay, first you have to do this.

First you have to do that.

So off you go.

So there was silence.

And then after a while, someone said...

I hate you!

I'm never playing this game with you again!

When they'd never played it before, when somebody had escaped at the last minute, cleaned up just when they thought they were going to get... And it provokes that salutary, benevolent fury and rage in the players, which all good board games do.

And they were happily married couples who were, at the end of the afternoon, phoning their respective lawyers to discuss the future, that kind of thing.

I do.

I do, yes.

I think...

I mean, you can say that in communities you have rivalry, hostility, who's the best, who's the fastest, who's the strongest and things.