Get to know your flatmates with this fun new game designed by students

08 Nov 2019
By Ellie M., Post-grad at University of Glasgow

This year I’d managed to get a flat with some friends, but I couldn’t help but feel a little nervous about it. I knew these guys, and I had known one of them for quite a while, but I didn’t actually know the others that well.

It got me thinking; how can we get to know each other in a fun way? How can we turn it into a game or activity for the whole flat? How can we find out about each other’s favourite films and families without having to do the typically awkward and overtly obvious, ‘so, what’s your family like?’

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Crafter, casual gamer, and future forest ranger. I'm Ellie and I graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2021 with a degree in Film Studies and Theatre. I grew up in rural Aberdeenshire and am still trying to figure this ‘adult’ thing out.