How to win games and beat people

Defeat and demolish your family and friends!

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Are you fed up losing at family board game nights? Do you want to learn how to destroy the competition?

Get the inside tips from preposterously overqualified experts on how to win a range of common family games, board games and more.

* A mime artist tells you how to do the best charades
* A mathematician tells you how to win Connect 4
* A professional racing driver tells you how to take corners in Scalextric
* A Scrabble champion reveals his secrets
* A game theorist tells you what properties to buy in Monopoly in order to bankrupt and embarrass your competitors.

This is a must read for anyone who takes games too seriously and for bad losers everywhere.

“It sounds utterly brilliant”
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About Tom Whipple

Tom Whipple is the science writer and special correspondent at The Times, and the presenter of Inside Science on BBC Radio 4. He covers everything from archaeology to zoology. During the course of his job he has visited the tunnels below Cern and the top of Mont Blanc above it. He has seen the inside of the world's hottest sauna and the world's most irradiated nature reserve. He has interviewed Stephen Hawking and Jedward. He has been arrested in three different countries.
As well as The Times, he has written for the Guardian and The Economist. He has been twice named science journalist of the year, including for his coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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