Monopoly has no end. The rules explain how you can unmortgage a property and when you should build hotels on Madison Avenue but they don’t say, and they should, that the winner is the last player left alive.
And what about Risk? You make a calculation, based on the law of averages, that you can take the world but then you loose because the person you are playing with who think’s he is George W. Bush invades Iceland and it’s game over.
Let me explain why I am writing this. Last night I lost my virginity and, for the first time, played “Guitar Hero.” I was with the wonderful Blum family and young Max Blum was keen to show me his guitar skills. He was simply brilliant as he strummed his way through classic Rolling Stones and Guns n’ Roses classics and mastered songs by bands with names like Slayer and Rat Killers Puke Machine Death Cookie Blackeyed Carrots.
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