MIND THE GAP
In thinking about which old game might be appropriate to review for the Holiday issue, I started researching which board games were popular gifts in years past. Not surprisingly, the evergreen classics such as Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble, Life, and Candy Land have been traditional December gifts over the decades.
Closer to our time, in 2015, Codenames became a blockbuster holiday hit. It’s an easy and addictive game in which two teams vie to guess code names given one-word hints. The initial release price was $20. But owing to its scarcity and enthusiastic reviews on sites like Reddit and Yelp, the game sold out and rare
