There are several board games that can occasionally get your goat, and who hasn’t turned a chessboard over occasionally from the shear frustration of being lured into an unfortunate trap that you just didn’t see coming? But chess can be quite difficult to play well. A beginner will never sit across from you, and dominate you like you have never played the game. Aggravation on the other hand…

This is such a simple game. Anyone can play, and anyone can win, but as anybody knows that plays this game for any length of time, some people will find a way to win far beyond that allowed by the law of averages. They will rip victory right out of your hands and you will be damn lucky to finish second. Right on the front of the box, it warns of being a choking hazard,and correctly so. Aggravation is the wrong name, and Hasbro needs to rectify this abomination now. I have a few ideas.

Give Me The Damn Dice.

You’ve Been Trying To Roll A One For How Long?

I’ll Get You For That Last Move.

This game will teach you quite a bit about how life works, and should be taught for credit in school. Things like…

We all start out with an equal opportunity

Some will leave the gate like a sprinter, only to fall back at some point, and never recover.

Some will take forever to get rolling, but once they do, they are very formidable.

Some are just happy to be in the game. ( At this point, I fall into this group.)

Once the game is over, we have a winner, and unless you’re four years old, you don’t run around crying like somebody loaded the dice.

I’m certain that there are no Aggravation players huddled in safe spaces, holding puppies in their arms to avoid meltdown, because they have learned to live with bitter disappointment… like me, still waiting for a one.

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