30th March, 2009 - Ten Toys I Remember #6

I loved and still love the board game “Diplomacy”. That, along with “Risk” are probably the only two games from late childhood that I carried into adult life (if you exclude Dungeons and Dragons, which – as you should all know by now – is not a game at all, but is a perfectly acceptable and quite adult form of entertainment akin to reading classic literature or watching the films of Frederico Fellini).

Diplomacy was a curious mix of war and politics set in Europe at the turn of the century. It rewarded backstabbing and back room manoeuvrings. I think that anyone who works in a large corporation would benefit from mastering the game of Diplomacy. Promotion would be theirs for the taking.