From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's hour of puzzles,

word games, and trivia, ask me another.

I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

Thanks Jonathan.

So okay, a few episodes ago at the beginning of the show, we were talking about how I'm

trying to, you know, we're playing games at home, I'm playing with my five-year-old,

and he is a really hard time losing.

I remember, yeah.

So in response, a bunch of our listeners reached out to me and suggested all these different

cooperative games that are out there that I knew nothing about.

And I was like, okay, this is fantastic.

And I went on, and this was, this was actually right around the holidays, and, you know,

these games were sold out primarily, but I managed to get one called Outfoxed.

Outfoxed, I don't know that one.

And it arrived, and I pulled it out and said, Lucas, you know, we have a new game, which

of course, anything new game, these are magic words right now, magic words.

Yeah, I mean, I feel that for sure, yeah.

And it's sort of like, you know, it's sort of like clue, I guess, a little bit.

Oh yeah.

It's a cooperative game, so we all figure it out together.

And then when we've decided who we think the culprit is, we say that name, and he does

the reveal.

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