Searching Through a Mess

While wanting to reminisce about the good old days in which I played Boggle with my family, I went searching for the game in the house. It was not to be found on my floor, on my bed, in the closet, on my shelf, on my sister's shelf, or anywhere else I thought I might have put it. So, I found a massive pile of junk in my sister's room and started digging through it with the help of my father.

Almost immediately, I found the base and cover and he found 11 of the 16 letter cubes. They were on the floor near the mess pile and a shelving unit which contained even more messes. Knowing that the game set had been spilled there, we continued moving all kinds of interesting (and painful to sit on) things, uncovering 4 more cubes. Some of those items were:

• Scissors
• Glue sticks
• Pencils
• Pens
• Photo album
• (No longer) edible bracelet
• Lip balm
• Mousetrap (the game) parts
• Pawns
• (So many) loose cards
• Gloves
• Socks
• Outgrown clothing items
• Discharged flashlight
• Basketball
• Bouncy ball
• Window caulking kit
• (Real) broken pumpkin stem

We never did actually turn up the last one cube, but it was really a lot of fun to go through a giant pile of old stuff that had been forgotten and ignored for years. I will probably take similar opportunities to perform archaeological operations in other living spaces, if possible.