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04-14-2011, 10:26 AM
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I can't remember the game we just played at bro and sis-in-law's house. Some kind of category game. Played guys vs girls and had ALL age groups represented and the men kicked our butts. We surmised that women are more likely to be like "you know, schnauzer is one answer but maybe even better would be collie, what do YOU think?" while the men blurted us out of the water!
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Bookshelf games were fun.
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04-14-2011, 10:48 AM
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Ha d a Monopoly-type game, which used all the peices from Monopoly, called Heads and Feds. It had a pot theme.
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04-14-2011, 10:50 AM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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04-14-2011, 10:31 AM
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monopoly is a sucky game. http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/...aming-evening/
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04-14-2011, 11:13 AM
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We don't play Monopoly often, but we have fun when we do. I guess it must depend on your mindset going in? For a "luck-based" game with an "inevitability" factor (if those aren't mutually exclusive), it is surprising that some people always seem to do well regardless of their starting position/position early in their game, and some do not. I'm guessing perhaps you and the article's author are not two of Monopoly's winners? I rather think that if one needs to read detailed blogs about how to hold a gaming evening, one is almost automatically doomed to failure. maybe I'm gameist.
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04-14-2011, 10:46 AM
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Backgammon
Monopoly (I also have the Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and QVC versions) Battleship Risk (I sucked at it, gave my board to a friend's kid when I moved) Chess (not a good chess player, but I'm smart so I think I should play this. I do fairly well at chess problems not so well at actual play) Scrabble Parcheesi Pente I never had a lot of the really well-known games as a kid, only played Sorry, Life, and Trouble at other kid's houses, but I did have Toss-Across. I'm sure there are tons of others, but I can't think of them right now.
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04-14-2011, 10:47 AM
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*snort*
Alrighty then...mudderplucking sassafrassa crap shit board games. I SPIT on you. I SPIT on you all. Here's a game you might like...stand right over.........THERE. |
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04-14-2011, 10:50 AM
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I still like battleship.
Looking for Feely Meely. Stage II trivia...all the answers lead to another answer. |
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04-14-2011, 11:02 AM
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chutes 'n' ladders = snakes and ladders
parcheesi = ludo
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04-14-2011, 11:11 AM
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04-14-2011, 11:22 AM
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Oh wow, this is awesome! Thanks monster, for years I wondered what the game was but just now was prompted to look for it online.
I had a detective game when I was a kid, where I actually kept records of everything, who was the culprit how the clues worked out. Documenting that like I did, it's not surprising I landed in a field where it's all documentation all the time. I was pretty young as I recall, when I had the game. I tried to google it and I'm sure this was the game! What memories. I played this one by myself a lot. I wish I still had it. http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4969/manhunt edit: it came out in 72 so I was like 8 or 9. |
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04-14-2011, 11:32 AM
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Clue = Cluedo for those completely unbilingual, btw. Hebe loves this game once we taught her how to play. I used to be totally crap at it, right into adulthood, then beest pointed out he couldn't understand why -it was just a huge logic problem of the type I love to do for fun and that was a lightbulb moment! I have no idea why that never occurred to me as a kid. I just thought everyone had some superintuition I was missing. I now suspect my dad deliberately kept me in the dark about that so there was one game he could still win....
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 Never played Clue much. |
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