Battle of the Sexes

Did I forget to mention that Matt and Jenn hosted an excellent potluck/games night last week?

The highlight of the night is when we pulled out the game Battle of the Sexes. Now, knowing me as you all do, you know that I get a little more competitive when games turn into competitions of guys vs. girls. Classic examples of this are Disney Trivial Pursuit circa 95-97, Christmas Party ’05, and…well there’s a lot.

The game Battle of the Sexes involves each team starting on opposite ends of the board and they get to move one space forward for every question they get right. There are also spots on the board where you get to pick up a wild card (like Community Chest in Monopoly) where they can take spaces away from you, or give you spaces to move forward.

The game was a little intense. Personally, the boys felt that the questions were a little skewed towards the girls favour for the sole fact that girls know a lot about guy stuff by the sheer fact that they are inundated with it throughout our society. Anything about television is not male specific, it is gender-neutral. Anything about movies should be gender-neutral. So, while the ladies got the questions about movies and music and TV, we got questions like “What do you put on first, lipstick or lip liner?”. Good lord.

Anyhow, we were 20 spaces behind and the girls only needed one more spot. While the rest of the crew that we were done for, I noticed that we were one question away from hitting the WILD CARD spot. “Guys, let’s play it out.” I proclaim. “We haven’t played this game before, perhaps there’s an ‘advance to the end of the board’ card tucked away in there.” While most of the guy outright dismissed me, Matt picked up the top wild card to see if it would be possible and the look on his face was sheer amazement. He didn’t say a word but from the look in his eyes, I knew we had it.

Sure enough, the question comes, we answer correctly and then pick up a wild card. I believe the card said something to the effect of “Your wife is 8 months pregnant. It’s 3:00 in the morning and she wants pickles so you drive out to the grocery store to get some. Bravo! Advance to the end.”

Once again, the cheers to the tune of “Na na na nah…hey hey…goooddddbye!” appeared in our lives as we danced around living in the victory once again. The girls dismissed our win as pure luck, but in my books, a win is a win. If the girls wish to say we don’t have talent because we win by luck…so be it. That’s how millions of dollars are won in a lottery. Who’s laughing now?

Ahhh…I can’t wait for the big trivia contest at Christmas. I predict some big wins once again.