Board game with Oscar Wilde

Date: 12/18/2019

I was on my bedroom floor playing a board game with Oscar Wilde, the actors who played Fred and George in the Harry Potter movies, and some other people who I don’t remember. In the game, there was an open book in front of us and we had to place little tokens on top of certain words on the pages. I don’t remember the exact rules, but we were trying to choose words that were as uncommon as possible. The book looked a lot like my AP Euro textbook. At the start of the game there were two teams: me and one of the twins on one team, and the other twin and a boy I don’t remember on the other. Somehow this changed to be three teams: me and a girl I don’t remember, one of the twins and Oscar Wilde, and the other twin and the boy I don’t remember. The girl and I were sitting with our backs against the bed when we were deciding which word to put our token on. I suggested a word (I don’t remember what it was) and she agreed, and we put one of our tokens down on top of that word. Then suddenly we were sitting in front of the closet and Oscar Wilde’s team was against the bed. There was a green quote box at the top of the page (very similar to the ones in my Euro textbook, containing text from a primary source) and I noticed that the quote inside used very flowery prose, like Oscar Wilde’s style. I thought that Wilde would enjoy reading the quote in the box so much that he would get distracted and not do a good job on his turn. Somehow I knew that he had to find a word on the page that was the same as the word we had put our token on, or one that was very similar. He chose a word, and there was some debate over whether or not the word was similar enough to ours. According to the rules, if you choose a word that isn’t similar enough to the last word to be played, you’re out. Oddly enough, he and his partner were arguing that they should be out and the other two teams were arguing that they should stay in. Finally he said “You know what? I’m taking us out” and grabbed all his tokens off of the page.