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67. Santa Cookie Elf Candy Snowman (avg score:1.5) - A glorified slapjack, where the players place cards down, having to recite the mantra, "Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV"... or, um, "Santa. Cookie, Elf, Candy, Snowman", and if a card matching the word the player is saying happens to be placed, then you slap the deck to give the cards to the other player. Goal is to get rid of your cards first. There's no real strategy, and nobody in the family likes this game, so we half-heartedly played it for a bit, and will undoubtedly be donating it at the end of the year.

68. Santorini (avg score: 8) - Fun little strategy game where each player has two movers on a 5x5 board, attmepting to get to the top of the towers they build after moving. After we played, Silas mentioned that this is a lot like Connect Four, but more spatial, and I guess that's the case, but I still really like this game, and want to play it more in the future.

69. Scattergories (avg score: 6) - Everyone's got a list of categories. A letter is rolled on a giant letter die, the timer is set for like 2 minutes, and you have to write down answers that match the categories starting with the letter rolled for htat round. Then, everyonoe reveals their answers and if your answer is the same as anone elses (or is invalid somehow), it doesn't count.  Fine enough game, although I think it's probably more fun with more people.

70. Scrabble (avg score:6.5) - Uh. It's Scrabble, yo. You build words with your letter tiles, and certain spots on the board are worth extra points. 

71. Scrambled States of America (avg score: 5.5) - Simple little children's educational card game where each player gets five state cards in front of them. Each card has the state name, the capital, and the state nickname, as well as a cartoon drawing of the anthropomorphized state. You then have to be the first to match one of your states to a card that has something on it. Things like, "Capital starts with an A, B, or C" or "State does NOT touch the ocean" or "State not showing teeth in it smile". At the end of the deck, player with the most cards wins. (Ironically, we both ended up with 24. ...I'm not sure where the remaining two went.) Anyway. It's purely luck, and not a super deep game, but it was fun enough. 

72. Set (avg score: 6.5) - Card game where you have to find sets of 3 cards where each "thing" (color, shape, number of  shapes, and solid-ness) is different (or the same). I like this game, normally, but, just wasn't feeling it when we played yesterday, for whatever reason. One of those games I think you have to be in the right mindset (heh) for.