Bored Games - board games - Capital Collections

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

39823

Title

Bored Games - board games

Description

The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'BORED GAMES'

'What luck? None, scientists would say
but every Christmas at Monopoly
my brother rolled dice, getting
double sixes beyond statistical possibility.
In later life he gained and lost a job each year
became a father and husband by accident.
We reap what we sow. Snakes and Ladders
the name of the game of life
the difference between
stupidity and serendipity in Scrabble.'

By Douglas Thompson

Image: Ker Plunk 1970, Monopoly Edinburgh Edition 2000, Snakes & Ladders 1936 & Scrabble for Juniors 1973

Date

1930

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.

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