Discover Your Lover is a game from the good people at Tease & Please. Like many of the adult themed games on the market it is designed to help you enjoy a fun and passionate evening with your significant other.

The game is played on a board, following a path of 55 numbered positions laid out as a pentagram. No, I don`t think you do have to be a master of the occult to play and enjoy this game but following the rules does require a little concentration so I`d recommend you bone-up on them before your soirée de l’amour.

The game is billed as one where anything is possible, with the consent of your lover. But then if your lover is so consenting why do you need a game? Well, you don`t but games like this always add the random element to your love-play and that`s a great thing. My main criticism of this game is that the rules are so complicated that understanding them when your mind is, shall we say, elsewhere, is quite difficult.

The tasks you are required to perform range from the intimate and sensual to very naughty. So if you`re not quite at the stage where you`re comfortable with your partner this game may not be for you.

The other criticisms I have are that the question cards tended to be a bit monotonous and a large proportion of those we drew during our playing of the game were from a US survey commissioned by Durex. All of the questions were interesting, but they were not in themselves very erotic.

The questions that we found most interesting were those asked by one partner, posing a question about themselves to the other. That is, for example, “Where do I like to be kissed?” or “Would I recognise your penis in a line-up?”

Then there`s the colour coding of the game squares and the question cards. It`s very difficult to see in low-light, so playing by candlelight is very difficult.

That sounds like a lot of criticisms of a game that in all fairness has a lot of good points.

At the start you tell your partner your ultimate desire, the winner gets their ultimate desire fulfilled by the loser. Suze told me hers and I told her mine. Suze then pointed out that I would have difficulty persuading Sarah Beany and Kirsty Alsop to turn up at such short notice. And quite where they and Suze would find nurses uniforms at that time of night was a further complication.

Anyway, having adjusted my ultimate fantasy to one that Suze alone could fulfil we began the game.

Asking each other questions and following the instructions on the task cards is something that we both found fun and rewarding. The questions make you think about sexual situations, including the one you are in, playing the game and the tasks force you to pay attention to your partner in a way that you otherwise might not. It`s all too easy not to take that extra time and make that extra effort in a relationship, especially after you`ve been together a while. As with all games this one encourages you to make that extra effort.

No matter how familiar you are with your partner you can always find out more about them. While I don`t think Discover Your Lover taught me anything about Suze that I didn`t know already it did make us talk about sex, laugh and relax in a way that we don`t always give ourselves time to do.

I have to admit that we didn`t gather together the list of items that the instructions stated we might need to play the game. These included shaving foam, a razor, fresh fruit, cream … but don`t worry if you haven`t got these items the game advises you to move on to the next task for which you do have a prop.

I think improvisation is the key to enjoying a game like Discover your lover. To play it to the letter of the rules and follow every instruction word-for-word would be very involved, and not so much fun. We found that with improvisation to get around the tasks we couldn`t perform and embracing the tasks that we could carry out made for an enjoyable evening.
The best advice I can give is to take the rules as your guide, and not to follow them slavishly, relax in a comfortably warm room and let the game enhance your evening of love.

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Another first for us today, reviewing a board game. The game in question is Monogamy. It`s been around since 2002 so you may have seen it in your local adult store or online, as we had. We never considered buying a copy as I suppose we viewed the game as a means for a couple to spice up their love life, and ours is spicy enough already.

If we hadn`t been sent a copy to review by the manufacturer Creative Conceptions we would never have known …

A quick synopsis of the game: Two players, over the age of consent move around a board up to six times using a single dice to dictate their moves. Each position on the board is marked out indicating whether the player should take a Monogamy Card (see below), have a drink, kiss the other player, remove an item of clothing, nibble an erogenous zone, give the other player a massage or use their imagination to stimulate their partner. Oh sorry, I forgot, you need to keep a little rude food to hand too because some of the squares require you to eat this from your partner`s body.

After each circuit of the board by your phallic little counter an extra ring is added to its shaft (hehehe) and you pick up a Fantasy Card. You retain up to two fantasy cards (you choosing which one to discard when you pick up the third) until the end of the game. The first person to complete the six circuits of the board (two at each level) gets to choose which of the two fantasy cards they retained is acted out.

The whole concept sounded a little too contrived to us when we viewed the game in-store. It isn`t, for two reasons. First the cards instruct you to indulge in/talk about activity that is highly arousing, without describing it in a gratuitously pornographic way. Secondly it`s not all about actual sex, you`re encouraged to talk about what you like and dislike, what turns you on.

As a couple who are notoriously open with each other and the rest of the world we were surprised at the way in which the game made us talk to each other about things that we simply hadn`t discussed in ages. We talked about group sex, oral sex, where our ultimate fantasy location to have sex would be and what essential sex toys we`d take on a weekend break. Suze also ended up riding me like a naughty little cowgirl at one point too!

The Monogamy Cards are grouped into three levels, intimate, passionate and steamy. Each progressively more intimate and sexual. The deeper into the game you get the deeper into each other you`re required to go LOL.

It was while Suze was nibbling and licking my ear that it came to me just how wrong we had been about this game. It can be played by couples still getting to know each other and relatively early in a relationship to break down the barriers and broach (random) sexual topics without having to deliberately bring them up. In doing so you can advance your relationship, open up to each other and avoid the awkwardness that a deliberate discussion of anal sex for example might cause. But even in a relationship as well established and honest as ours the game reminds you to revisit sexual themes and activities that you no longer indulge in, in our case because we`re always trying something new.

A nice feature is that some Monogamy Cards are meant to be retained for use days after the game has completed. These are the “Treats”, and describe special things you can do for your partner to keep the passion burning, it can be as simple as taking them for a meal or as complex as arranging a fantasy scenario for them in secret.

We didn`t play the full game, indeed the manufacturers claim that people rarely finish a full six circuits of the board before the passion takes over and naughtiness ensues. You don`t have to play the full game to get hot and steamy. You can play a speed version, jumping straight in at the steamy level if you`re both almost ready for action, or even quicker, pick a fantasy card at random and act it out.

The game (in its full version) does take a long time to play, the 90 minutes claimed on the box is wildly inaccurate. I`d say about 3 hours. And you`d be into each others pants well before that time. You have been warned.

One criticism I have of the game is that the board, because it`s printed in dark, sensual reds and purples, can be difficult to read in low light. The cards too can lack contrast, being black lettering on a flaming red background. It`s hardly romantic to have to turn up the lights just to read your instructions, kind of breaks the flow.

Something we are going to do is retain and act out all four of the fantasy cards we accumulated. We will of course let you know what happens when we act them out on AlexSuze.com.

Monogamy is available from your high street and online from adult retailers such as Bedtime Heaven. It`s the perfect gift for any open minded couple at any stage in their relationship. So take the phone off the hook and enjoy the naughtiest board game we`ve played.

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