With board games, puzzles and almost indoor entertainment backordered, let’s follow the example of Kelli Russell and Melissa Studdard and create our own games in this time of isolation and panic.
Create your own version of traditional games—gather duplicate photos of your friends for a game of Memory or use birthday cards, holiday cards, and invitations as a personalized deck of cards for Solitaire. Print out photos of flowers and landscape or crowded city streets from your last trip or group selfies from meeting with friends for coffee or drinks or going out to the movies and then cut puzzle pieces out of all of them and mix them up. Try to put your world back together.
Play the game you have made and write about the experience. Did you win?
Bonus prompt: choose one of the poem’s Bingo spaces that you have recently landed on and write about it. Remember to go easy on yourself. Let yourself win this round.
