How would you describe your ability to focus at work during the holidays? How would you describe your knowledge of different names for Santa Claus? How would you describe your love of The Muppet Christmas Carol?
These are just some of the prompts you could come across in the holiday expansion for I’m Kind of a Big Dill. If you want to read more about the rules of I’m Kind of a Big Dill, you can read our review of it from a few short weeks ago.
The holiday season is something unique when approached from a tabletop gamer’s angle. On the one hand, holiday parties are a great opportunity to play games with new people. On the other hand, good luck finding a game that will attract gamers, casual gamers, and non-gamers alike.
Unless you want to play mass-market games like Monopoly and Scrabble, or basic playing card games (no hate), one of the better options is likely going to be party games. I’ll leave it to you to curate what party games are appropriate for your family or friend groups, but the Holiday edition of I’m Kind of a Big Dill is a pretty safe choice for just about any group. The box comes with an extra two “Dill Meter” player boards and dry-erase markers, bringing the player count up to 12 people max. The 60 prompt cards are more than enough to handle that size of group for several games of fun. But here’s another fun fact: You can play I’m Kind of a Big Dill as a cooperative two-player game. That means that if you don’t intend to play with a big group, you just need this single stocking stuffer sized box to play.
When asked, I tend to say that I celebrate a secular, commercial Christmas. The inclusive Christmas that is about Santa Claus and snowflakes, rather than any of the numerous cultural and religious winter holidays. I respect everyone’s beliefs and their right to celebrate as they wish, but I also want to be able to include them in my own holiday fun. That’s one of the things I do love about this game. It mostly avoids any religious landmines in favour of white elephant parties, Festivus, and finding the Christmas Pickle. (As an aside, I have no idea how that became a thing, but it legitimately is a thing. They didn’t make it up as a Big Dill joke. Although I guarantee that’s how it made the cut to be included in the game.)
How would you describe your desire to eat the chocolate from an Advent calendar? Honest answer, I can restrain myself and would be just as happy with a dice Advent calendar as a chocolate one.
Is that an honest answer? (Yes, it is.) Am I downplaying my chocolate obsession? (Maybe a hair.) Am I exaggerating my love of dice calendars? (Our YouTube Channel says I am definitely not.)
Do you know me well enough to know how I would describe my desire to visit the North Pole? I have some seriously Christmas-crazy friends, and I’m not sure I could tell if or how they possibly could be exaggerating their ability to spread Christmas cheer to all who are near.
In short, whether you are playing a partner or a party, I’m Sort of a Big Dill Holiday Edition is a dill-ectable treat. (Sorry, not sorry.)
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[David Chapman]
There are plenty of Christmas Pickle songs I could have picked from, but most of them are mediocre. So today I chose an amazing stop motion video: The Carol of the Christmas Pickle. Be sure to read what the first page of the story says…