Emily got home, having also picked up a bake-at-home pizza. Jimmy, her eldest at fifteen, was playing video games, while Sara, the youngest at ten, was doing her best to ignore him and read a book. Her husband Joe, recently laid off, was sitting on the sofa in a frump, reading the paper.
"Okay," Emily said, "I've got something fun for 'Family Togetherness Night.' I picked up a board game at the mall."
Jimmy and Sara both looked uncertain. It was hard to get a game appropriate for a child but that would still interest a teen.
Joe put down the paper. "Well, it beats Mah Jhong."
Emily put the pizza in the oven and the family somewhat reluctantly got to the table and looked at the boxed board game.
"A Game of Change," Jimmy read. "Revised and Expanded." He took the lid off and they looked inside. There was game board with a standard track to the center, along with four spots for decks of cards, red, blue, gold and green. There was also a pair of dice and a set of pawn.
"Well," Emily said, "I think I got a good bargain. This looks really nice for only $15."
"It's probably lame," Sara said.
Jimmy looked at the inside of the box. "It's pretty straight-forward. You roll the dice and go that many spaces forward. You land on a colored space, you take a card of that color. You roll doubles, you get to go again."
"Well, okay then," said Emily. "Let's play. Jimmy, you can go first."
Jimmy shrugged. "All right."