MadWish Girls Edition: We Have Been Friends for Eight Years. Apparently, We Still Don't Know Each Other

A couple of my friends and I decided to organise a proper girls' night. Nothing special: snacks, music, food and a chance to catch up because everyone had been busy lately. There were six of us, and one of the girls brought MadWish Girls Edition. We thought we would play a few rounds before putting on a film.

The first cards were pretty harmless. We answered questions, laughed at some of the suggestions and disagreed about a few answers. Then we reached the Point Out cards, and the atmosphere changed almost immediately.

The questions made everyone look at one another differently. People started pointing out habits, personality traits and little things the rest of us had apparently noticed but never mentioned. Some answers were predictable; others caused an entire table of people to defend themselves.

What surprised me most was how involved everyone became. One of my friends, who is normally incredibly quiet, turned out to have a surprisingly strong opinion about almost everyone at the table. She also seemed to remember every embarrassing detail anyone had ever shared.

Things became even funnier when questions about past experiences brought up stories I had completely forgotten. Other people remembered the same situations differently, and a few moments made it obvious that someone wished they could take an answer back. The cards gave us a reason to talk about things that probably would not have come up during an ordinary catch-up.

At some point, we had stopped following the order of the game because everyone was too busy discussing the previous question. We eventually realised that the film we had planned to watch had been sitting on the television menu for nearly three hours.

Nobody really cared. The next morning, our group chat was still full of references to the previous evening. I think we learned two things: MadWish Girls can make a familiar evening feel different, and eight years of friendship apparently is not enough to prepare you for your friends' opinions.