Boomers and millennials should wipe the floor with us in gameplay season – and we will never match gen Z’s fine motor skills. But still, we are winnersPhotograph: Lucy Lambriex/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Lucy Lambriex/Getty Imageseneration Z ask a lot about what life was like in the olden days, and a lot of their questions are stupid.
I can make no comment on the relative intelligence of each generation, since most games aren’t really about intelligence . There are often elements of strategy , and millennials take these pretty damn seriously, but what they would know if they were older is that, where luck is a component, you should cast yourself wholesale on it – victory will be sweeter and defeat not bitter at all.
There is always one name that comes up multiple times: this year, it was Harry Styles. Nine of us playing, 10 separate Styleses; cue a lecture from me to the youngsters about how you must always bring your A-game to the name game. Then it turned out it was me who put him in twice – got distracted, I guess. A lot of glee was derived from establishing that fact, none of it mine.