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Here’s a Christmas gift tip from a typically rubbish bloke who has often left shopping too late.
Yes, firstly, the sheer size and audacity of the jelly bean collection is remarkable, and that will make up for many failures.
Secondly, for a gathering of gamers, jelly beans become a currency and part of a festive dare.
I’ve used them as mana in games of Magic: The Gathering and witnessed matches that were lost, not won, because a planeswalker decided to snack on their health.
A few years later, I was an archer in a New Year’s one-shot in which jelly beans were used as monsters on battle maps, and once (if!) your character got the killing hit in, you got to eat the jelly bean.
Honestly, the idea of awarding the meta loot to the last hit was more controversial than the idea of playing with jelly beans on printed maps.
I’ve lost count of the number of times that jelly beans have been used as rewards for appropriately coloured jewels in Splendor.
Lastly, and I’ve never done this, but I think the idea of pairing a bucket of jelly beans with something like a skull cocktail bowl as a gift combo is a power move. I don’t think you’ll get the skull on Amazon Prime as easily as the monster jar of jelly beans.
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Do you have any better ideas or examples of using candy as tokens or parts of tabletop games? Let us know in the comments below, and you can join the ranks of helpful heroes during the great gift panic.
