It’s too late now. Your holiday cards may as well stay in their boxes because you have already lost the card game. This is a game that is widely known but rarely mentioned – the Holiday Card Waiting Game, otherwise known as Call My Bluff. It is a game for mature players, a friendly game of social rivalry. If you are too young and electronically sophisticated to send paper cards through the mail, this is how the competition works. Each player has his or her own list of friends and relatives who are or might be in the game. On the list they record the cards sent and received during the holiday season, noting the relevant dates. This year’s list is still incomplete, of course, and that’s the point. The object of the game is to avoid the embarrassment of an unequal exchange – receiving cards too late to respond – and at the same time embarrassing as many of your friends as possible by sending them cards at the very last minute, when they have failed to send one to you. The rules of the