Essays

I like many indoor games. They are a great help on rainydays and also on hot summer afternoons when schoolsare closed for holidays and my friends and I am leftwithout any new ways of passing the time.

When I was younger I used to play snakes and ladderswhere one's luck was all that mattered. One had to move ones coin according to the number secured on the dice. Ludo was another game that I have always loved to play.

However as I have grown up I have developed an interest in other games too. Monopoly is one of these. This is a game of business where luck and calculation are equally involved.

Fake money is used to build hotels and houses and theone' who ends up with the maximum monetary gains wins the game. This game is great fun to play as it leads to a great deal of competition. One can feel like a kingwhile playing this game (if one happens to win all thatmoney).

Scrabble is the game that I can not only play with my friends but I can play it with my parents too. They love to play Scrabble as this helps to increase one'svocabulary and helps to sharpen one's intellect. It keeps the mind alert and one learns to think fast and makewords with the help of letters that are picked at randomfrom the lot.

This is in fact my most favourite game and I alwayslook for company to play Scrabble with. The newspaper also has a section of games on Sunday mornings. These have word building games and they are similar to the kind of exercise we perform while forming words whileplaying scrabble.

I do hope that some enterprising bright people wouldinvent some new indoor games. I have just added a game called Pictionary to my collection of indoor game and I am eagerly waiting to play it with my friend', during my next long vacations.