What do you get when you cross nostalgia-loving millennials with months of social distancing? The answer, apparently, is a new wave of conversation-inducing, laugh-out-loud party games. Amid the ruins of down-sized restaurants, shuttered nightclubs and festivals that all but went extinct, \u201cThe Big Night In\u201d has become the new \u201cout out\u201d and with it, the parlour game is enjoying something of a renaissance.<\/p>\n
Us millennials have a habit of escaping to the past; we collect vinyl records, knit our sorrows away, snap memories on Polaroid cameras and, faced with months of social distancing, play the sort of games our teenage selves would have cringed at. When the world falls apart, there is something reassuring about returning to a simpler time. Party games are to the pandemic what paint-by-numbers is to anxiety or boxsets are to breakups; they are a comforting lifebuoy in a time of crisis. And if we ever needed a distraction from the headlines or an occasion to laugh, 2020 was it.<\/p>\n
Fool The Game, a new card game by Sydney-based party enthusiasts Louis Nuccitelli and Athena Katsogiannis, is designed to be exactly that. It\u2019s a simple format with a large laugh factor; each round, the active player selects a \u201cscenario\u201d and a \u201clocation\u201d card and tries to act and describe the pair to the guessing audience. The game\u2019s strength is in the absurdity of the card combinations; it\u2019s impossible not to laugh watching your friends trying to act out \u201casking for a divorce\u201d \u201cin a mosh pit\u201d.<\/p>\n
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