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An advance of Lock’s Foodie Fight arrived yesterday, just in time to happily distract four of us from a deadly boring meal at Il Fiasco (review pending). You’re right. This is even nerdier restaurant behavior than taking digital pics of your pasta, but we didn’t actually pull out the boards, game pieces, and dice. Once begun however, we couldn’t stop quizzing each other from the question cards, which are divided into six categories: food people; world cuisines and food places; food on film and in print, movies, and art; party planning etiquette and wine pairing; food science; eating out; and cooking techniques. Good times.
The object is to answer three questions correctly in each category, thereby filling up an individual game card with tokens. There are more than 1,000 questions with a healthy range of difficulty, likely to challenge the expert without without destroying the confidence of the dilletante. The game’s release date is set for August 30.
