Archive for February, 2011

The Most Clever Christmas Gift I Ever Gave

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

This is Six:

Six a humanoid Cylon played by Canadian actress Tricia Helfer in the remade Battlestar Galactica series.

And this is also Six:

Six is also a board game where players take different-colored hexagons to make either a six-sided ring or a triangle made from hexagons or a line of six hexagons in a row — and try to prevent their opponent from doing the same.

So last Christmas, I got for my cousin Stefanie (who I knew was a fan of the remade Battlestar Galactica) a copy of the board game Six, but wrapped like this:

Clever, eh? (The gift, and the way it was wrapped, was a big hit.)