Nothing says holiday fun more than sitting around a table, crammed in with your closest friends and family playing board games…and winning. Yeah, yeah, it’s not about competition, it’s about having wholesome family fun…but in my family, a simple game of Candyland can turn into a battle of wills between two grown men…with everything on the line.
So this year, when your family starts to break out that shoe-box full of card-games and the ratty old 1980s edition Trivia Pursuit (which I’d totally rock, by the way), how’s about you introduce a new game?
The second edition of A Game of Thrones: The Board Game from Fantasy Flight Games just went on sale on Amazon. It pits 3-6 players against each other as they vie for control of the Iron Throne in the wake of Robert Baratheon’s death using things like ports, garrisons, and siege engines. For $42.83, you can crush your really annoying cousin who claims to be “Grandpa’s favorite,” or that uncle with halitosis that just loves to tell you how his hair plugs are really coming in…every chance he gets…right in your face.
Hey, why not obliterate your Meemaw in a war between the ancient and noble Houses of Westeros? Meemaw can be the Lannisters, and you can be the Starks, and finally get revenge by hosting a Red Wedding 2.0…”YOU CAN SING THE RAINS OF KISS MY ASS, NANNY!” Sorry. Gametime at my family’s holiday gathering gets quite competitive.
Oh, and if Game of Thrones board games aren’t really your thing, then step it up, Scrooge, and buy the real thing.
This is an Iron Throne prop made for a commercial, and it is for sale. This totally comfy loveseat is being sold on Ebay, or you can message the owners at Info@montanaMen.be. Per the owners, the “prize could also be negotiable for the true fans.” Interesting.
So, for roughly $2,800, you can watch Season 6 of Game of Thrones on an actual Iron Throne. Hey, you could play the Game of Thrones Board Game from your newly purchased Iron Throne and then you’d literally be playing the Game of Thrones…I think that’s how it works.