At The Cabin: Jelly Belly Bean Boozled

The Iowa cousins brought a Jelly Belly Bean Boozled game.  If you haven’t had the experience of playing (or the absolute delight of watching) before, the box is filled with real honest to goodness jelly beans.  Half of them are normal, like banana, or coconut, or blueberry.  Half of them are terrible, like grass clippings, dogfood, rotten eggs, spoiled milk or dead fish.  Each excellent jelly bean has a visual matching nasty jelly bean, so you don’t know which you are going to get.  The rules are loose, but a spinner is involved.  We followed the recommendation of having a trash receptacle nearby at all times, and that was a good move.  There was a good deal of spitting (although not by Mr. SP who could keep a straight face and keep chewing through the worst flavors).  There was also quite a bit of dry heaving, especially from Mr. TOF, who abandoned his cautious nature to the wind in hopes of getting an excellent bean rather than a nasty one.  He did end up with rotten eggs at one point, and spent the next four hours politely inquiring how he could get rid of that taste in his mouth.  Toothbrushing and a snack just didn’t quite do the trick for him.  “It’s still stuck on my teeth, Dad.”

This game was loud, wild and crazy, and a ton of fun.