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Trouble: The Fun Pop-O-Matic Game

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Pop-POP!

Some memories I’ll take with me to the grave: The song on the radio during my first kiss (It was “Tears of a Clown”); when my wife said, “I do;” and the sound made by the “Pop-O-Matic Bubble” from Kohner’s infectiously addictive board game, “Trouble.”

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A lot of summer nights were spent playing this game, and I can still hear my father cursing under his breath as I hit 6 after 6 after 6 after 6. There wasn’t much to the game outside of dumb luck, but there always seemed to be that one player whose luck never seemed to run out.

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That was me, and I was happy to rub it in dad’s face every time I leapfrogged him on the board.

I guess you could say that Pops was…Pop-Popped!

*crickets chirping*

I’ll show myself out now.

 

 

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