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Vegetable Thieves

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In Vegetable Thieves (2010), an original board game by Cally Trench, rival thieves try to steal beds of vegetables from an allotment and load them onto their lorries while taking potshots at their competitors.

Vegetable Thieves by Cally Trench

Players are sometimes presented with a choice between theft and attempted murder, and most players make their choices without compassion, playing to win. Only once has a player objected to the rules of the game; on one occasion, a child of four or five asked if we could just steal the vegetables and not shoot each other. I agreed. The violent and illegal nature of the actions in the game contrasts with the beauty of the drawings on the board, which are uncovered as the beds of vegetables are taken away.

Vegetable Thieves by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Vegetable Thieves
in The Effort Presents a Puzzle
at The Windmill Brixton, 10th July 2011

Vegetable Thieves by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Vegetable Thieves
in At Play 2012
at New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

Vegetable Thieves by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Vegetable Thieves in Floraphilia
Vestry House Museum, Walthamstow
1st September 2012

Board games by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Vegetable Thieves
in In Dialogue, Primary,
Nottingham, 4th October 2014

Board games by Cally Trench

Cally Trench, Vegetable Thieves
at OVADA Stammtisch, Joe Perks & Co., Oxford
24th November 2016

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