Cally Trench: Board Games

Cally Trench, Board Game (2006)

Cally Trench, Danger Money (2009)

Cally Trench, Vegetable Thieves (2010)

Cally Trench, Shopping Spree (2011)

Hitched is a game of strategy for two players; each piece travels across the board to find a partner, returns home and can never move again.

Board Game is a game for two to four player, in which members of your family walk through the woods trying to avoid falling into toxic ponds and being attacked by their neighbours.

In Danger Money, players control a small troop of soldiers that they can place on the board in positions of greater or lesser danger; however, they are rewarded financially disproportionately well for soldiers placed in greater danger.

In Vegetable Thieves, rival thieves try to steal beds of vegetables and load them onto their lorries while taking potshots at their competitors.

Shopping Spree is a complex game of chance in which players are compelled to buy large numbers of consumer goods, risking debt; their lives are controlled by chance events.

These board games have been played at various events and exhibitions, including Sherborne House in 2004; Matt's Gallery (London), South Hill Park (Bracknell), and Penny School Gallery (Kingston) in 2007, and at Liquid Studios (Hackney Wick) during the Hackney Wicked Festival in 2009; during At Play 2 at South Hill Park, Bracknell in 2010; and during the Games of Money and Death salon organised by Island Projects as part of the This Is Not A Gateway (TINAG) festival in 2010.

Three games were played on 4th November 2009 as part of The Home Delivery, an event organised by ArtWash. See ArtWash

All five games were played in 2011 at a live music venue in Brixton (The Windmill) and in a pub in Oxford (the Port Mahon for an OVADA Stammtisch).