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Christmas is a time for games. Card games and board games. Monopoly used to be a favorite, then Settlers and Rummy took over.
Untill this year that is.
On the morning of Christmas Eve Ingrid and Marta had occupied our two comfortable armchairs. Wrapped in their duvets they were ready for hours of watching television. All the films which are sent every year only on this day. A tradition not to be broken.
I was busy in the kitchen, and from there I had a good view over to where the girls sat. To my astinishment they both were busy with their cell phones, and from time to time looking at each other laughing.
I was curious: "Hey, what are the two of you doing?"
"Mamma, we are playing Wordfued, which is like Scrabble played on our android phones"
Playing games on the phone? A phone is for calling, for texting, and these days also for photograhing, for skyping, for reading emails, sometimes even for blogging. But playing games? No that´s not for me....
.....or rather, that WAS not for me.
I have started to play Wordfeud, and though I´v lost every single game I´ve played so far, I am hooked!
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At mass on Christmas Eve I sat together wth three young men, all of them unknown to me, all of them busy with their phones before mass started. I loooked at the one closest to me, and couldn´t stop saying: "I see you are busy playing the same game as my kids do". The young man looked at me, smiling; "Yes, we are playing Wordfeud. Everyone does these days. I even have a friend who plays Wordfeud on his mobile with his grandma. What do you say about that?
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Which games do you play at Christmas?
