www.montereycountynow.com OCTOBER 9-15, 2025 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY 25 Do you still have it and play with it? I do, occasionally. Do you get competitive? Oh, yeah. Have you ever been caught cheating on a game? Accused of, never caught. Are you a sore winner and/or sore loser? I’m a super boastful winner and a bad loser. But I played with my brother. You always want to beat your brother. Nick Pasculli County of Monterey Administrative Office What was your favorite game growing up? Trouble. Why did you like it so much? I suppose I am competitive in nature and like it because it is completely a game of chance and requires strategy…which I relate to my professional career journey. Do you still have it and play with it? Oh yes, often with friends on a Friday or Saturday night. It is a crowd favorite. Nicola Reilly Monterey Symphony President and CEO What was your favorite game growing up? Scrabble and charades. Why did you like it so much? Scrabble was the only thing I’d do with my mom and I became really competitive with it in school. We would play charades every Christmas Eve with the entire neighborhood and it became a profound childhood memory for me. Do you still play them? Yes, I get so excited whenever anyone wants to play charades and I’ve made it a point to teach my kids how to play Scrabble. How competitive do you get? I get really competitive. Whenever we play Taboo, I take it seriously because it’s about working with a team. And you have that competitiveness for only a moment. Have you ever been caught cheating on a game? No, I’ve never cheated. That’s not fair to cheat. Are you a sore winner and/ or sore loser? I’m getting better at being a loser. All I want to do is have fun. That’s my general philosophy about life right now. Magnus Torén Henry Miller Memorial Library Executive Director What was your favorite game growing up? Soccer, or football as it is known where I come from. Why did you like it so much? Hanging out with friends with a ball that is round is just the best. Do you still have it and play with it? Not really. I have a soccer ball laying around, but part of the problem with a soccer ball in Big Sur is that you just lose it all the time. It rolls down the hill and it disappears down into the canyons. There’s not enough flat areas. How competitive do you get? With soccer, when you play a match it’s all about winning. So then you get very competitive and play very hard. The more the team coordinates among each other, the more fun it gets. When you’re like 12 years old, you don’t like to lose. Have you ever been caught cheating on a game? Well, many, many, many times the referee has blown his whistle and caught me cheating, I guess, but also oftentimes it was involuntarily making the mistake of the ball bouncing up on your hand or felling some competitor unintentionally. But there have been times too where an intentional quick bounce with the hand has happened and I have gotten caught. That happened many times. I don’t get sore except from riding horses. -Zoe Lofgren, U.S. Representative, District 18
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