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C-audible.co.uk for terms. I'm a feminist, but last night I played a new game. I'd never

played before called Wordslam, and the idea was you'd get a card that would have a clue on it,

like Hot Air Balloon, and in under a minute you have to clue your partner, but you can only

use words on cards in your deck. So if it was Hot Air Balloon, for example, you could do what I

did and use the word transport, old-fashioned, sky, and they're sort of obviously shouting things

out and trying to guess. And if you're playing with Tom Szylinski, he won't know what that means.

Or you could do what the opposing team did and just use the word up. And with that one word,

they would know that the answer was Hot Air Balloon. Even though that team was not married

and hadn't spent every waking hour of lockdown together, so it should be a little bit more telepathic.

But what are you going to do? I can't think what other things were old-fashioned transport in

the sky, but anyway, it doesn't matter. Lots of rounds forced us into rather binary ways of

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