A Simple game of UNO Stacko can become extremely complicated when there are 3 Engineers from the School of Environmental and Civil Engineering.

Here we were, a group of 7 girls.

3 Engineers, 3 Accountants and 1 Political Scientist.

The game started out fine.

Then as the stacked-up blocks were becoming unsteady, Engineering jargon was spewed.

One Engineer said, “Watch the foundation, its getting very unsteady”.

Another contributed with, “If you are gonna take that block out, its gonna be unstable”.

The third one suggested that the fan, an external element be shut off cos it was affecting the stability of the Stacko.

But seriously, i was more interested in making the stacko fall noisily. I thought that was the fun element in the game. So due to my utmost desire to curtail the playing time, i was banned from touching the UNO Stacko unnecessarily. Furthermore i was instructed by the Gurus of structures on which block i could take out in order to keep Newton’s law of gravity at bay.

I am sure if it was given a while more, steel reinforcements would have secured our Stacko.