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Sibling Rivalry: A Game For All The Family

A game for 2–6 players (No it’s not) Yes it is) (That’s not fair, you always take her side)

dan brotzel
The Haven
Published in
5 min readApr 26, 2024

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Photo by Jessica Da Rosa on Unsplash

Object of the game

The object of the game is to covet and secure as much of your parents’ attention as possible, ideally at the expense of your brothers and sisters. You do this by collecting Brownie Points and successfully deploying Attention-Seeking Missiles to win you as many Badges of Approval as possible. Once you win a Badge, you stick it to the school jumper of your chosen animal figurine’s school jumper. Badges include: ‘Mummy’s Favourite’, ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’, ‘Chip Off the Old Block’, ‘#1 Child, Son and Heir’, ‘Dream Daughter’, ‘I’m The One (They Secretly Like Best)’, ‘You’re the Milkman’s’, and so on.

You can also win Badges of Approval by taking on challenges and answering questions as you go round the board, but beware! Your siblings are out to get in your way and will stop at nothing to steal the ones you’ve already got. And that’s OK because you’ll be doing the same back to them… (Ow! Get off.) (You started it!)

Getting started (No — you started it!!)

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dan brotzel
The Haven

Funny-sad author of The Wolf in the Woods (Bloodhound); order at geni.us/wolfinthewoods | Hotel du Jack | Slackjaw, Pithead Chapel, X-Ray, The Fence | Pushcart