When I was a child, my mother and I didn't have heart-to-heart talks about the eternal, we didn't discuss world problems, my mother didn't tell me how things worked, she didn't lecture me at length (if she did scold me, she did it briefly and succinctly), but I had the feeling that we were constantly in dialogue. Already as an adult, I tried to remember what we talked about? What did we discuss when we spent forty minutes getting to the music school and back three times a week? We weren't silent, I remember that for sure. What did we talk about during our frequent walks in Sokolniki Park? And when we walked along the Crimean embankments every summer in the evenings, we also chatted about something, didn't we?
I remembered! We played it all the time, I loved it, and I think my mom enjoyed it too! The first thing that comes to mind is the game of cities, or words. Although trivial, it expands your vocabulary and knowledge of geography. I haven't played this game for ages, but I remember that, oddly enough, the first words that ended with "A" were the ones that started with "A".
One of my favorite games is danetki, riddles that take a long time to solve, asking the host leading questions that can only be answered with “yes,” “no,” or “it doesn’t matter.” These riddles usually had a detective plot, preferably with a corpse. This created a mysterious atmosphere and tickled the nerves. “A man’s body was found on the edge of the forest, wearing only swimming trunks, flippers, and a mask. The nearest body of water is 5 km away. What happened?” “After receiving a letter from her husband, a woman realized that he had died. How did this happen?”
In the mid-90s, under the impression of the charming Valdis Pelsh, we ourselves started playing "Guess the Melody". Well, the rules are clear: hum - guess. And then we decided to diversify our musical exercises and began to guess a word for each other, for which we had to remember a song. For example:
- Remember the song that has the word "darkness" in it!
- Splash some magic into the crystal darkness of the glass...
On hikes with classmates we often played, of course, the beloved "Contact" with guessing words by letters. It was friendly. We also played "Gardener", that was more heartfelt.
But my favorite game from school years is “Anything for the soul, all gifts are good!” This is the most girly of all word games: the host names some item of clothing or accessory, and the other participants try to think of it and describe it in detail so that the host chooses it from all of them.
- I want a ball gown! - said the presenter.
This was in the 90s, so it usually started like this:
- You will have a fluffy pink tulle dress with lace along the hem, a bow on the corset and roses on the sleeves.
- You will have a tight short dress made of turquoise and pink sequins with an open back and one sleeve.
- You will have a golden dress with a two-meter train and embroidered with precious stones.
The presenter faced a difficult choice...
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