What do you get when you cross nostalgia-loving millennials with months of social distancing? The answer, apparently, is a new wave of conversation-inducing, laugh-out-loud party games. Amid the ruins of down-sized restaurants, shuttered nightclubs and festivals that all but went extinct, “The Big Night In” has become the new “out” and with it, the parlour game is enjoying something of a renaissance.
Us millennials have a habit of escaping to the past; we collect vinyl records, knit our sorrows away, snap memories on Polaroid cameras and, faced with months of social distancing, play the sort of games our teenage selves would have cringed at. When the world falls apart, there is something reassuring about returning to a simpler time. Party games are
