Friday Give-Away! Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Cheese Touch Game

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Who has the cheese touch?


So I really almost never respond to pitches from PR people.  Mostly that's because PR people tend to pitch me stuff like the cat potty training system.  (If you go back and read that one, please note that it means that I have been banging my head against a brick wall attempting to potty-train Little Dude for well over a year now.) 

Other stupid pitches I have gotten were for a phone app for "the definitive luxury lifestyle brand" (whatever that means) and more recently, for a damn toilet cleaning product.  That last one just proves that the PR chick didn't read my blog at all, because on the tab that says "Contact / PR / Ads" there is this picture:

Even more disturbing was that the Toilet Cleaning PR Chick expected me to video myself doing a dance while cleaning my toilet.  Um, no.  I spend enough time in there trying to potty-train Little Dude without adding to the weirdness.  However, if and when Little Dude actually does become potty-trained, I will video myself doing a victory dance to LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" and post it on YouTube for all to see.  How about that?

Any way, you'd probably like me to shut the hell up now and get to the part where you could win something free.  I got a pitch to review the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Cheese Touch Game and was all, giddyup.  Because first of all, my kids freaking love those books, and second of all, it's an actual, non-digital, non-electronic, old school board game.  Remember those?  From back in the Stone Ages when we were kids?

Also, we've been trying to make Sunday night into Family Game Night, and we've played Headbandz so many times, we've all gotten a little too good at it.

I love board games.  I especially love board games that our entire family can play without anyone having a meltdown, and those, my friends, are hard to come by.

First of all, you don't have to have read any of Jeff Kinney's awesome Diary of a Wimpy Kid books (or seen the movies, or listened to the audio books in the car, like we have) to play this game.  It's actually a game designed to get to know people in your family better.  There's also some goofy acting and movement involved, all the better for those of us whose attention spans aren't so focused on weekends when we're off our Adderall.

Wait, what was I talking about?  Right.  The game.

The Cheese Touch Game is for ages 8 and up, so we did make a few modifications for our 5- and 7-year-olds.  One of the activities is acting out some adverbs, and they didn't know all the words, so when that happened, they just picked a new card.  We also ignored some of the rules about how many you had to get "right" to move on.

Another thing we liked about this game is that it's quick.  Seriously, my kids can't sit still long enough to play a long game like Monopoly.  This game was quick and interesting enough that we got through one game and the kids immediately wanted to play it again.

So ... who wants to win a free copy of their very own Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Cheese Touch Game? 

Instructions:
To enter to win, leave a comment at the end of this post and answer this question: What's the last NON-VIDEO game you played with your kid(s)?

And dude ... I can't give the game away to "Anonymous," so leave some kind of name or something, mmkay?

I'll pick one winner at random tomorrow morning!