So today I spent a lovely Cardiff afternoon indoors playing the board game of the tv show Battlestar galactica. If you don't know the tv show, or indeed the concept of the game, the idea is you each control a character on board a space ship with the remaining human population. Through the game, and the show, bad things happen to the ship and the people, such as loss of water supplies or broken weaponry. To make matter worse, one of you is an undercover Cylon, a robot disguised as a human, whose job it is to sabotage the ship and the efforts to avoid disaster on the ship.
The game in really good fun, and knowing that one of you is constantly plotting against everyone else makes for some great debates and accusations. Crisps doughnuts and cookies may be provided to improve the quality of the game, but they are optional.
In the end, after about 4 hours of playing the humans managed to snatch victory at the dieing moments of the game (literally, our population was nearly dead by this point). Spending an afternoon playing board games may be seen as a bit of a waste by some, who would prefer to go off and see the world, but I think an afternoon spent with friends having fun is just a a good!
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