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Category : My Life in Cairo, Oh, Egypt

Today we went to Carrefour.  It’s a huge store and it’s usually crowded and loud and crazy.  (Remember Brandon’s video of me looking lost and confused in the maze of shopping carts and families at Carrefour last year?  Click here to see it on his blog.)

Today’s best Carrefour find had to be this game:

Defile

Let’s analyze this, shall we?  First off, nice use of the Disney font and diacritical marks.  I am not exactly sure how you would pronounce this with the accents on both e’s, but either way, I think it still says defile, which is just a little weird if you ask me.

And isn’t that the Lucky Charms leprechaun flying in on a rainbow above the game name. I have no idea what this game entails, but somehow it seemed strangely familiar.

…Made by Nilco.

Nilco… Nilco.  Where have I seen that before?

Oh yes, the DeLux Scrabble.  Remember the letters? It was beyond our wildest expectations.  Incredible.

But wait, there’s more.  Here’s another game we didn’t buy.

Cannibals: The game where you eat ’em to beat ’em.

I guess that one explains itself.  Haha.

Fun for 2.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess it’s not that fun for one.

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I can’t decide which one I’d rather play.

I guess it really depends on who else is playing.

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