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show begins. A few years ago now,

a friend of mine introduced me to something called the Huger game, which I think was the

first time that the concept of Huger was introduced to me, although I think it was explained to me in one

offhand sentence as some kind of Danish tradition, meaning coziness. In fact, I think actually

at the time my friend might have said that it is the

Danish word for cozy. And so I accepted that in hand and happily played the game for the

evening.

And what was interesting about it is it wasn't really a game, so to speak.

It was a set of cards, a deck of say, I don't know, 60 cards each with a question on that was designed to simply stimulate a conversation.

But a really particular kind of conversation, you know, if I can try and draw up some examples of these questions,

it was things like, would you rather be rich with no friends, or have many friends but no money or something like where is one place in the world

you wish you could go but haven't had the chance yet.

Or maybe something a bit more interesting, like,

is there any time in history that you'd most like to go?

Is there any words you'd like to say to a loved one that you haven't seen in a while? Now I'm making these up as I go along, I'm pulling them from the air.

The questions I think were a little more delicate, a little more thought through than that.

But I think you get the idea of the atmosphere that this kind of conversation drew up and some of them were a little more serious than others a little more heartfelt thought-provoking.

Others seemed designed to be a little bit chovial, a little bit silly.

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