by zuzusdad
Every year my friends and family get together and participate in a hockey pool. I’ve been doing that for more than 20 years now and it’s a fun tradition that adds some excitement to a long NHL season but last year it was made more special when I was able to add Star Wars Queen’s Gambit to my collection because of our hockey pool.For almost a year before this I had family members on full alert, complete with print-outs of the box cover, looking for this game at yard sales and rummage sales all over Ontario and had been diligently monitoring and bidding on auctions on eBay, trying to think of a way that I could justify the cost of this, my favourite game.
The NHL playoffs are in full swing right now and we’re approaching my 1 year anniversary as a lucky Owner of this game and I thought it might be a good time to share the wonderful story of how I finally got my hands on a copy of the game thanks to overwhelming generosity of my good friend (BGG user Locarno).
You can read all about it here: http://apieceofme.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/the-saga-ends-and...