Unconventional Ways to Cheat at Board Games

Eat the Hungry Hungry Hippos marbles yourself Replace all questions in Trivial Pursuit with fill-in-the-blanks from your diary In Cranium, replace your opponent’s clay with a block of granite Substitute your Parcheesi pieces with real tigers Bribe the other Monopoly players with real money Take your Twister board to a reunion for Vietnam veterans Tell your opponent that the Chinese Checkers tournament is taking place in Beijing Replace one of the LIFE professions with “Soviet prison camp worker”

—Staff

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