The best way to win at Monopoly? Soak it in lighter fluid and drop a lit match on it.

Then go find Acquire (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5) if you like the property collection.
or I'm the Boss (boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/115) if you like the wheeling and dealing.

Interestingly, both games were created, decades apart, by the late great Sid Sackson.

And, while Scrabble is ok, needing knowledge of arcane two-letter words to win is a drawback. What has Sid Sackson got for us? Buyword (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8920/buyword). Plays 1-4 players in less than an hour. Almost no downtime as all players play somewhat simultaneously. The man was a genius.

There is a whole world of board games that you won't find on the shelves of Wal-Mart. Settlers of Catan is sort of the granddaddy of them. There have been other good games before it. But Settlers was intentionally designed to be the opposite of the crappy games you see in big box stores.

This is a non-commercial site that has all the resources you need to find out about them:

www.boardgamegeek.com

Skittles do taste different. The five original flavors were all sweet fruit flavors. Then they decided to change green from lime to green apple. So now you've got 4 sweet flavors and one bad sour apple version that leaves a chemical aftertaste.

The rainbow is ruined.

Fantastic selling point. I like the bit where the knitting group feels a strange energy in a room full of swords, as opposed to being totally comfortable in a room dedicated to things designed to kill people.

There's a city called Worcester in Massachusetts. Whenever you hear advertisements that use the name, you get all sorts of different pronunciations, with war-sess-tur being the most common. But in Mass, they call it Wis-tahhhhh.

Loved the Monkees as a kid. Saw them play in the 80s, without Mike Nesmith, and it was great fun. Whenever I hear a Monkees song, I then have the overwhelming urge to find an episode of Banana Splits. I don't know if it is because they are similar comedy, or if they were on consecutively when I was a kid.

The jacket doesn't "essentially absorb most of the light from the flash". It reflects the light back so that the camera's automatic exposure thinks there is a lot of light and reduces the exposure.

Pro Photography Tip: If you are taking a serious picture, while you are framing your subjects, check for douchebags.

I put my nipples where, exactly?

School pictures make tens of thousands of dollars for a school. Don't like what they're doing, stop buying them. The policy will change quick.