Play The Sock Game this Christmas

This Christmas families up and down the country, after Christmas dinner and Christmas pud and mince pies have been consumed, the sherry sipped and the first King's first speech has been watched, will be playing The Sock Game!

Invented by a pair of very competitive brothers called Jono and Nick back in 2015 (the back story involves a pair of their Dad's 'borrowed' walking sock and a whole host of other paired items that they found all over their family home.)

Over the years the boys have refined the game with what they describe as "the perfect sock" and they assure us that their Dad did, eventually, get his pair of walking socks back.

So, what happens? You get your special extra funky, colourful official monogrammed socks, two sets of 30 game items, two scoring counters a spinning score board and the instructions.

Before play commences put one identical set of 30 game items into each sock, then attach the spinner to the spinner score board. (Merely describing the bag of game items will not do them justice. You'll have to buy the game to learn the delights of the bag!)

How to you play it? Divide everyone into two teams. Each player must take a sock of items. Select a scoring counter and place it onto the allotted starting place on the spinner score board.

Choose a player from each team to go first and twizzle the spinner to choose an object. 

Call out the name of the chosen object then GO!

The first player to remove the object wins a point.

And then the game continues!

It's a fantastic game and can be as fast or as slow as you are comfortable with. And it's suitable for either two players or for two teams of multiple players, you decide! 

It's aimed at everyone from age eight to 108 and we feel certain that this will be a firm favourite with every family who receives one in their Christmas gifts this year. And at every family party for the rest of time. It's the kind of game that helps make family memories. 

It's available from https://www.asmodee.co.uk at £19.99. 

(I had planned on working a reference into this piece to the expression "Sock it to me" which was common back into the 1960s and early 1970s, used by Aretha Franklin in her 1967 version of the song "Respect" and also in the comedy show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, 1968 to 1973, but as most readers are probably too young to understand those references, I decided not to bother!)