It also highlights the growing urgency of the question of who will follow the current Dalai Lama, 86, a globally acclaimed figure whose death is likely to trigger a succession crisis that is already drawing in world powers. Last year the US made it a policy to impose sanctions against any government that interfered with the selection process.

It is up to that player to describe that rhyme to their team, without saying any of the words on the card. Their team can make as many guesses as they please (of course, the sillier the better) and when the right answer is shouted out, the player simply takes another card and tries to describe that rhyme. You have 30 seconds to guess as many rhymes correctly as you can, gaining a point for each correct guess! It doesn’t end there however! You can read NSO Group’s full statement here. The company has always said it does not have access to the data of its customers’ targets. Through its lawyers, NSO said the consortium had made “incorrect assumptions” about which clients use the company’s technology. It said the 50,000 number was “exaggerated” and that the list could not be a list of numbers “targeted by governments using Pegasus”. The lawyers said NSO had reason to believe the list accessed by the consortium “is not a list of numbers targeted by governments using Pegasus, but instead, may be part of a larger list of numbers that might have been used by NSO Group customers for other purposes”. They said it was a list of numbers that anyone could search on an open source system. After further questions, the lawyers said the consortium was basing its findings “on misleading interpretation of leaked data from accessible and overt basic information, such as HLR Lookup services, which have no bearing on the list of the customers' targets of Pegasus or any other NSO products ... we still do not see any correlation of these lists to anything related to use of NSO Group technologies”.Following publication, they explained that they considered a "target" to be a phone that was the subject of a successful or attempted (but failed) infection by Pegasus, and reiterated that the list of 50,000 phones was too large for it to represent "targets" of Pegasus. They said that the fact that a number appeared on the list was in no way indicative of whether it had been selected for surveillance using Pegasus. In Obama Llama 2, players split into two equal teams. The game scales perfectly to any player count and players who don’t want to have the limelight on them can play as the guessers. On your turn, you are running through one of three types of cards as fast as you can. Trying to get your team to guess the rhyme. This can be either ‘Describe it,’ ‘Solve it,’ or ‘Act it.’ This is determined by the roll of a dice. The possible scrutiny of Tibetan spiritual and government leaders points to a growing awareness in Delhi, as well as in western capitals, of the strategic importance of Tibet as their relationships with China have grown more tense over the past five years.

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Secondly because it is Alexa-based it can evolve over time with new types of questions – based on customer opinion – rather than you having to wait around for a new edition to come out. For describe cards, you simply need to describe the phrase without using any of the words featured in the phrase. With act cards, your team can see the celebrity on the reverse of the card whilst you do your best to act out what the celebrity is doing. For example Orlando Bloom using a broom. Personally, the easiest cards for players with little celebrity knowledge are the solve it cards. These cards just feature sentences which are read out. Your team just has to guess the rhyming phrase from the sentence alone.

Anyway, inspired by friend Peter Jenkinson over at Toyology, I thought I’d take a look at two of the latest board games: When in Rome which is is certainly one of the first, if not the first, Alexa-controlled board game and Obama Llama which is kind of like a modern take on Snap (it is currently being updated to Obama Llama 2 in time for Christmas). When in Rome AddThis sets this geolocation cookie to help understand the location of users who share the information. YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Chris Price takes a look at two very different board games, the Alexa-powered When in Rome and the brilliantly named Obama Llama… Tempa Tsering, right, the chief representative of the Dalai Lama in Delhi, speaks to the media alongside his wife, the Dalai Lama’s sister Jetsun Pema. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images

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Find two Rhyming Pair cards that rhyme to keep them. The team with the most pairs at the end of the game wins.