Games We're Playing
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listeners share the games they play at gatherings of family and friends -- board games, card games, charades, new discoveries and perennial favorites -- and why they work for your group.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNC on WNYC. Shrades anyone. We'll end today with a call in about the |
| 0:10.0 | games you play, specifically the party games that you play with friends and |
| 0:15.2 | family around the holidays. You know when it's cold outside maybe it's better to |
| 0:19.7 | do something than just sit around indoors and talk politics or the state of the world |
| 0:25.9 | endlessly. |
| 0:26.9 | 212, 433, WNYC. |
| 0:30.3 | It's a simple question in a way, does your family have a favorite board game or a card game or a game like charades that requires no props and no purchase products. |
| 0:41.0 | 212 433 WNYC. |
| 0:44.4 | Share your favorite indoor game. |
| 0:46.8 | 212 433 9692. |
| 0:50.5 | It can be a new game or an old game. |
| 0:52.1 | Tell us why it works for you in your crowd. |
| 0:54.0 | 212 433 9692 call or text. |
| 0:59.0 | One of the reasons we're asking today |
| 1:01.0 | is because there was news yesterday that the company Hasbro |
| 1:05.3 | announced that it's laying off almost 17% of its workforce because of a slowdown in the sales of games and especially toys. |
| 1:15.0 | Hasbro makes some of, if not the most popular board games around. |
| 1:19.0 | Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Operation. |
| 1:22.0 | You know that one where you remove organs with wire tweezers, ew, that's a game, and the |
| 1:27.8 | slowdown in sales seems to be because we bought so many toys and games during the early days of the pandemic. |
| 1:34.2 | So did you stock up? |
| 1:36.2 | Did you find a new favorite? |
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