My family likes to play games, even though we don't play them a lot. I don't know why--I guess we get involved in our own things, kids playing video games or working, me trying to decompress after work. It just seems we seldom find ourselves sitting around a table after dinner to play a game together.
Tonight friends asked us over for a game night. Half of us went. Those of us who did go played a game called, Chronology.
It was a fantastic game.
If you're familiar with the game, you can skip the next part. If you're not familiar with it (as we were before tonight...) it goes like this:
You're given a timeline. You pick a card that has an interesting fact on it. With the fact there's a date. You then pick additional cards and you have to guess if the new interesting fact occurred before or after the card you have. For example, your card says, 1492--Columbus discovered the New World in this year. The next card will say, General Custer was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn in this year. You would answer that the battle occurred after Columbus discovered the New World. You would be right and get the card.
The game gets interesting, and tougher, when when you have multiple cards with multiple dates. And the question then is, did Samuel Morse's discovery of Morse Code happen before 1876 (year of the Battle of Little Bighorn...) or after?
There's multiple categories and a few other rules thrown in. All in all, we had a great time playing that game. It's one our whole family would love, and we can think of a couple of other families that would, too. So, if you're a person/family that loves games, and you see this game out there--snag it! Apparently, it's a tough one to find. We'll be looking out for it because we want to play it again.
