1974 / Connection board game / 2 players / Chinese version
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Cheap, international-postage-discount padding for the birthday pile, before being deemed not worthy of saving up for the day and giving it early to try to wean her off dropping things down the radiator.
She'll get a proper version one day, if she likes it or when this inevitably breaks. It's not a game that begs for a travel version, since you'd just lose the fiddly pieces, and I remember stacking the yellows and pretending they're gold being one of the main appeals from my own childhood.
I enjoyed the blurb calling it an 'exploited wisdom game' as a euphemism for intellectual property theft.
