Phase 1) “You know what — I don’t give a shit. I’m buying the Family Fortunes boardgame.”

Phase 2) “Oh my god, this is literally the best boardgame I’ve ever played. I’m definitely playing it every day from now on!”

Phase 3) “Hang on… look how thin these answer pads are! There’s probably only about… 50 sheets. That’s only 50 games!”

Phase
4) “OK, OK let’s not panic. Maybe I could get in touch with the people
at Milton Bradley — maybe they sell the stationery separately. But
then what if you have to buy the whole game again just to get the
little pads? I’ll email them tomorrow and find out. Or… what if I just
photocopied one of the sheets? Then I could run off thousands of them
and I could play forever. Trouble is, they wouldn’t be bound in little
notebook form. Unless, I got a quote from the printers for adhesive binding. Can’t cost that much…”

Phase 5) Six months later: it’s in the loft.

JON