Xmas is almost here, so it's time to play Skeal

Ba-ya-ya, ba-da-da-da-da-da, ba-ya-ya

The nights are heavy, the prima is frail. The upland moans its hunger. The rivers are frozen scars and the trees are go hard flashes of achromatic lightning. Bells haunt the upwind and peculiar bearded men look successful the fireplaces, to beryllium chased distant with pies and brandy. The roses, strangely, are successful bloom.

Put connected your slippers. Stoke the embers. Pull up a chair. It is clip to remember. It is clip to renew. It is clip to succumb to a increasing addiction. It is time… to play Skeal.

If you’ve played Skeal with america before, determination is nary request for further words - here’s a nexus to the browser version. If you’ve yet to play Skeal, further words volition lone spoil things. Go on, it’s free.

Playing Skeal has been an RPS wintermas contented since Alice O declared it truthful successful 2017. After Alice O returned to the oversea successful 2024 - rumour has it she whitethorn so present unrecorded successful a greying operation - Graham took up the torch. Now Graham is gone, and I proceed the contented successful their stead. Am I making you sad? Excellent – this is the due temper successful which to play Skeal. But it’s the bully benignant of sadness, the sadness of release, the sadness of… genuinely unspeakable puns.

Skeal is benignant of a acquisition successful however you tin alteration a flimsy cringe into a teary-eyed guffaw by dragging retired the punchline and committing to it whole-heartedly. It shouldn’t marque maine bawl but it does. I americium going to get my sister’s spouse to play it this holiday. He’s astir the aforesaid property arsenic maine and I’m beauteous definite this volition marque him weep too.

Then I volition amusement it to my nephew, who volition look astatine maine similar I’ve conscionable offered to provender him a vessel of toothpaste. The cardinal happening is that emotions volition beryllium had. I anticipation Skeal makes you person emotions too.

Once much with feeling: Skeal is the enactment of Nick Cummings, who besides makes games astir laundry separation, hermit crabs and racoonomics. St Nick, we should telephone him. Merry Decemberween all.