Thank you Tatler Magazine for opening my world to Linkee. Love this
game!
The concept of the game is clever and really quite simple - it’s a
card game with talking.
On the back of each card is a letter (not the whole alphabet – just
L.I.N.K and E…it’s like that song) and on the front are
four questions. Your opponent draws a card from the set and asks you each
question in turn. Your aim is to (internally or on paper, if you wish) note the
answers to each, with the goal of finding the common link that ties them all
together.
For
example – if your answers were John, Paul, George and Ringo, the
Linkee would be The Beatles.
Once
you’ve got it, you shout out “Linkee!” - which is great fun. (You’ll note from
previous blog posts that I love games that force you to shout silly words.)
You
then keep hold of that card and the winner is the first
player to spell out LINKEE with their cards.
Simple, honest fun.
Well, I say simple but I think perhaps this game is best played with
the younger generation. Not very PC I know, but I introduced Linkee to my
unsuspecting parents at Christmas, and they found the whole thing a bit
confusing and stressful.
Or maybe that was just down to my fast-paced game play – not wanting
to toot my own horn, but I am very
good at Linkee. It’s scary – I think my mind must work in the same way as the
game’s creators. Is there a scientific word for that? Oh who cares – we just
think Linkee!
It all comes in a really gorgeous box. Very satisfying. And it’s all
punky-coloured – which is jolly.
We’ve taken to playing it in pubs – not sure why as it is a bugger
to fit in your handbag and you have to talk aloud. This can annoy fellow pub
goers. But it looks bloody good – you get lots of jealous looks…
Travel Linkee next? Ah – just seen there is now an app for that.
Fabulous.
Testament to its greatness is that Linkee has been made into a TV
game show…which is TERRIBLE! Sorry, but it’s just not for me.
The personality of the creators really comes across in the game, and
I love that. Gives it a bit of edge – a very British board game (aargggh, I
apologise!).
They also actively encourage participation from the general public
(brave? crazy?) to create new Linkees. I feel ashamed to say after all my
boasting that I am yet to create one…all gob and no action.
But I’m very much hoping a version 2 will be released soon, as at
the rate I’m rattling through it I will run out of Linkees before the year is
out. And that would be sad.
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