With siblings now on opposite sides of the U.S., my family is always looking for ways to stay connected. Over Christmas, we not only employed Zoom for sharing the hilarity of opening our gag gifts with each other, we used it to dial in sibling No. 2 as we on the home front performed a budget version of the “Triune Tale of Diminutive Swine.” The video service also came in useful for playing games together, and we managed a round of Scattergories (which nearly ended in a brawl) and some games of Yahtzee (a more congenial endeavor) with our distant relations. What we really wanted to try online though? Wingspan — or, as it’s affectionately called in our home, “the bird game.”
If memory serves, this game appeared under the Christmas tree in 2023, a present to my parents from sibling No. 2 and her now-husband. Being the absolute pill that I am, and in keeping with my dislike of learning new games, I asserted my stubborn streak and refused to learn it for nearly a year.
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