This week’s game was Ladies and Gentleman. In this game, you are split up into teams of two people each. One person is the lady who has to shop for the dance and has to deliver the “goodies” she wants to her husband. The other person is the gentleman who has to collect money from the stock market in order to buy things for his wife. The game is interesting in the sense that the lady and gentleman are playing two separate games in order to achieve the most points by the end. The hardest part of this game is the lack of communication that is present in this game. When I was the lady, I had to find a way to manage what I really wanted and strategically plan out what was important in order to get the most elegant dress possible. As the gentleman, I had to get the best stocks possible to provide the most money for my lady while also helping her out with the numbered tokens. In both scenarios, I had to learn how to play my own game and not let my team down while also prioritizing what was important at different times.

The leadership skills are very evident in this game. The idea of working together to complete two completely separate objectives is very important in this game. As a leader, you need to focus on your own tasks while making sure that your team objective gets done. In addition, you need to prioritize what is important and when to act (ladies need to prioritize when they get certain clothing and gentleman need to prioritize when they get certain resources). This task management over the course of the various rounds is very important because of things like holding an item or waiting to complete a stock until it gains more money on it.

Someone that would really like this game is my mom. She would enjoy the simplicity of focusing on one thing and the ability to “shop”. In addition, she would enjoy the fact that it is short and the fact that she would have a teammate. My mom enjoys games that don’t deal with too much strategy and this would be right up her alley because you don’t need strategy in this game to have fun.