Board Games

[Nuzzolese]

Whatever happened to board games? In the circles I travel in, no one even thinks of board games. I think they're fun and I happen to love them. No one plays them and I think they must be seen as extremely dorky or maybe just for children. I've played them with my family and have had great memories with Clue, Monopoly, Scattergories, Balderdash, and Taboo.

I used to be a big Fireball Island Fan but that dropped off the radar, same with 13 Dead End Drive and The Great Museum Caper, and Wagon Wheels to Oregon - see we had these generic crap games no one's ever heard of.

As a kid we had so many games and they all lost valuable pieces so eventually I might open the box to find regular pieces with a few odd objects mixed in, like a bottle cap or a shrunken dried Cheerio. Apparently that had become the new gamepiece, even though one might think we could just grab a new object the next time we played.

I never much liked the games that required a ton of setup before you get to play, like Mousetrap or some shit. If I wanted to build something I'd get out the leggo.

[cosmo105]

Cranium owns.

[beastieangel01]

not really a "board" game, but I like Apples to Apples.

[Nuzzolese]

I love how some people really come out and show who they are with board games, it's the best way to get to know people. Like one time when we were playing Balderdash (I think) and one girl yelled out a guess like it was a fire alarm or something and we all collapsed into laughter at how she'd gotten so into it. And then people can be such devious cheaters and smartasses and you trade cards when you're not supposed to, and bend the rules because it's just a game anyway and who cares?

[Nuzzolese]

There's always one person though who tires of the game before anyone else and they're the one rolling around on the floor moaning "just take your turn already" and they keep getting up to do other stuff, they give you all their cards and fake money, they make deals with you - even that's funny because they're so bored.

[TAL]

My circles play board games a lot. Not sure how it is in other parts of the world but here they have boardgames at a lot of pubs that you can ask for to play while getting a drink.

[Freebasser]

I'm more of a pool man myself.

And one time snooker. Oh how shit I was.

[zippo]

^
hey, yea, board games arent forgotten, theyre still there. i play them every once in while with my friends. or cards, how about cards. poker? how can you not feel like a badass when youre playing poker and the beer in your hands. and it cant get any better than a long game of canasta.

[Nuzzolese]

Now that I think about it, I think you can do that in some pubs here, I just never see anyone do it. I suppose Chess and checkers are played more in public than most games. I never learned to play chess.


Stratego was fun though! And Risk, or Castle Risk, or whichever you want. Those are good too. The game of World Domination. I just love all the colors.

My mom was/is the Scrabble queen of our family. She beats everyone.

[ToucanSpam]

I'm more of a pool man myself.

And one time snooker. Oh how shit I was.
Pool is fun.


Snooker is challenging.


Whenever I go to Britain, you and I will have to have a game. That, and some Guiness.

[Nuzzolese]

Life is pretty fun, you get the little blue or pink pegs in your little car and choose college or a career...

Connect Four, LOVED it. Huge Connect Four fan, always have been.

I don't think I've ever played Parcheesie (sp?)

[Freebasser]

Pool is fun.


Snooker is challenging.


Whenever I go to Britain, you and I will have to have a game. That, and some Guiness.

Or perhaps some Guinness instead? ;)

Pool is the game of gods but I have no time for snooker. It requires an element of precision that I just don't have when I'm bladdered.

[Lindsey_1535]

Candyland is NOT a good time. I have no idea how to even play it. But I kow the game we tryed playin with the board is not good, very pointless. ANYHOW I get really into games I yell and cheat.

[TAL]

Connect Four, LOVED it. Huge Connect Four fan, always have been.
Me too!

[cosmo105]

not really a "board" game, but I like Apples to Apples.
we've had that game for a few years now (i think it was a christmas gift) and have never sat down and actually played it. my friend is housesitting for my mom and said she started a game of it with her boyfriend and it was the most fun and challenging game they've ever played. i'll have to give it a shot.

[ToucanSpam]

Or perhaps some Guinness instead? ;)

Pool is the game of gods but I have no time for snooker. It requires an element of precision that I just don't have when I'm bladdered.
Pool it is.


And no I meant Guiness.

[beastieangel01]

we've had that game for a few years now (i think it was a christmas gift) and have never sat down and actually played it. my friend is housesitting for my mom and said she started a game of it with her boyfriend and it was the most fun and challenging game they've ever played. i'll have to give it a shot.

it's good times :D especially if everyone has a sense of humor about it. Rockin (y)

[zippo]

its not a boardgame but it relates.
last year we played hide and go seek at this friend of mines house thats big and creepy with the lights off. there was lots of big mirrors in the upstairs part so in the dark, youd see shiny shadows and then realize it was you. and thered be dark closets youd have to dig your hands into to confirm noone was hiding there. and the creaks and the cracks and not wanting to go by yourself because it was so godam scary. this was about one of the funnest times ive had in a while. one of my friends even hid inside a fucking freezer, those that are huge and you usually put meat or something in it? and he closed the door (the freezer wasnt connected ofcourse). how claustrophobic though. you just have to find a big, ancient, house to play in and turn the lights off.

[voltanapricot]

I like playing cards. Eveyone loves cards and it's always fun teaching people new games and being taught yourself.

The only board games I have truly loved are Monopoly and Scrabble.

I CALL THIMBLE!

[Nuzzolese]

its not a boardgame but it relates.
last year we played hide and go seek at this friend of mines house thats big and creepy with the lights off. there was lots of big mirrors in the upstairs part so in the dark, youd see shiny shadows and then realize it was you. and thered be dark closets youd have to dig your hands into to confirm noone was hiding there. and the creaks and the cracks and not wanting to go by yourself because it was so godam scary. this was about one of the funnest times ive had in a while. one of my friends even hid inside a fucking freezer, those that are huge and you usually put meat or something in it? and he closed the door (the freezer wasnt connected ofcourse). how claustrophobic though. you just have to find a big, ancient, house to play in and turn the lights off.

That happened on an episode of Punky Brewster and Cherry almost died.

[cosmo105]

anyone remember that show on mtv, FEAR? i used to love watching that late at night, laughing at the guys screaming like little girls when they'd hear chains being rattled or something.

[voltanapricot]

That reminds me of that God awful board game Atmosphere with the videotape.

[Freebasser]

I wasn't screaming, I was perfecting my singing voice :mad:

[cosmo105]

have you gotten that role in the off-Broadway production of Beauty Shop?

[Freebasser]

Not yet.

The director said I was too screamy :(

[CrankItUp!]

A pinball machine is the ultimate big toy to own ! I've got three - KISS , Evel Knievel , and a BMX one . It's SO COOL to turn out the lights in the room and have all three turned on at the same time ! Crank up some cool music and break out the cold beer with some babes over - and I'm in heaven at least once every week ! (y)

[cosmo105]

5, 6, 7, 8, and twirl! and crimp! and twirl! and crimp! and pirouette and double kick and step, and step, and TEASE! and TEASE! let me see those pedicures! half-turn, half turn, oh-no-you-di-int and 3 snaps and RUNNING MAN! and RUNNING MAN! and blow-dry and SCENE!

[Freebasser]

T&T?

[CrankItUp!]

Battleship was a great game as a kid. (y)

[Nuzzolese]

anyone remember that show on mtv, FEAR? i used to love watching that late at night, laughing at the guys screaming like little girls when they'd hear chains being rattled or something.

Me too. But even more than that I think I loved the new agey kids who felt bad vibes and evil energy as soon as they stepped out the door, and they'd quit before going on any missions. Their cameras never picked up anything, that was disappointing.

[cosmo105]

watching that show late at night with all the lights out was pretty scary. then i'd lie in bed with all the lights on staring at my ceiling, clutching my sheets until morning.

[CiaoBellaXO]

I was a fan of Mall Madness, Hotels, and Girl Talk with the fake pimples. Monopoly always took too long and I was stuck in jail half of the time.

[Documad]

I belong to a few "game night" groups. One I put together with older female friends of all kinds of backgrounds, and some that sprang from that. My groups are small and large.

Apples to Apples kicks ass with a large group, and it works well as an ice breaker if the people you invite don't know each other well. You take turns being the judge and the judge lays down an adjective or adverb like "horrid" and people have 7 cards in their hands with nouns (some proper) and they race to slap a card down (the last person doesn't get to lay a card down and doesn't get a chance). We play that you can lobby for your card, and explain why "ants" are more horrid than "a high school bathroom" but you also play to the judge so you win if I'm the judge and you put down "Madonna". Any number can play.

Catchphrase (the electronic version) is a real favorite but you need an even number and 6 is ideal. The movie game that comes with DVDs is fun. We also have people who have really old and silly games like Masterpiece and things they pick up at garage sales and we'll try anything. We mostly laugh and abuse each other.

[ToucanSpam]

I belong to a few "game night" groups.

Immediately I thought of Dungeons and Dragons for you. :D

[Documad]

Immediately I thought of Dungeons and Dragons for you. :D
I have a feeling that if I had been exposed, I would have gotten into it. When I was of the right age, parents thought it was EVIL.


I think games do bring out the best and worst in people. My family plays very cut throat. So do most groups of my friends. It's simply painful to play some games with people who aren't smart or who have no exposure to pop culture. So Apples to Apples is safe.

With Cranium, I have lots of bad memories because of friends who insist on playing but I wind up with partners who don't know School's Out, so I can hum it perfectly till I turn blue but they're never getting it. Ditto for Back in Black. I mean, what's the point? P.S. I have no artistic ability so the drawing games are hilarious.

[cosmo105]

Cranium got my grandpa rolling up his pant legs and dancing, trying to get his partner to guess Tina Turner. and my grandma did a great Mae West impression. it was a lolocaust and a half.

[instigator7022]

I love rummy

and does anyone know about the game imaginiff? that game can get pretty funny if your playing with the right people.

[sheesh]

Board games are fun if you've got enough people. Most of the friends we used to play with just sort of faded away. I have a friend that used to come over with his wife. He was always really drunk so that made playing games with him an exercise in frustration. I've still got most of my old games from the 70's and a Monopoly board from the fifties. It's about ripped to shreds. Though it still has all the pieces.

[cookiepuss]

It funny this subject should come up because I actually got out my old parker's bros games and played "the uncle wiggly game" yesterday with a friend. (Yeah it's really a board game you perverts.) it's for ages 5-11. The goal is to get your uncle wiggly to Dr. Possums house. you draw cards that tell you how many hops you can take. Some the cards have a little rhyming dialog, but every so often you draw a card and they didn't bother to rhyme it. it's like they just got too stoned and couldn't think of anyway to rhyme.

the names of character's in the game are pretty colorful, "the bad Pipsisewah", "the skeezicks", "jumpo kinkytail the monkey boy", "jimmie wibble wobble the duck boy", etc, etc.



We think we've figured out a way to make a drinking game out of it. (y)

[zorra_chiflada]

Now that I think about it, I think you can do that in some pubs here, I just never see anyone do it. I suppose Chess and checkers are played more in public than most games. I never learned to play chess.




i saw some canadian guys playing "jenga" in a pub a little while ago.
they were quite drunk, and when the pieces fell down they would fall into their beers.

[Documad]

i saw some canadian guys playing "jenga" in a pub a little while ago.
they were quite drunk, and when the pieces fell down they would fall into their beers.
I suck at that and pickup sticks and anything that requires a steady hand.

[Medellia]

Has anyone else ever played Spoons? Yeah I thought not. :(

The only games I really like are Scattergories and Balderdash. Oh and chess. I used to be so good at chess. If I kept it up I could have easily been one of those annoying chess champion kids, but I just stopped. But I'm usually one of those people Nuzz mentioned that gets bored and keeps asking if we can finish playing, giving cards away, etc. :o


5, 6, 7, 8, and twirl! and crimp! and twirl! and crimp! and pirouette and double kick and step, and step, and TEASE! and TEASE! let me see those pedicures! half-turn, half turn, oh-no-you-di-int and 3 snaps and RUNNING MAN! and RUNNING MAN! and blow-dry and SCENE!
Hahahahaha!!! :D

[zorra_chiflada]

Has anyone else ever played Spoons? Yeah I thought not. :(


i played spoons. if we're thinking about the same thing

[Documad]

i played spoons. if we're thinking about the same thing
We used to play something called spoons, but I think my mom made up a lot of the rules.

I ROCK at things that involve playing cards fast. ;)

[zorra_chiflada]

We used to play something called spoons, but I think my mom made up a lot of the rules.

I ROCK at things that involve playing cards fast. ;)


we played it in high school, we sat in a circle and put spoons in the middle (one less than the amount of people there were)
and then we passed cards around quickly and the first person to get a combination of four had to pick up a spoon, and then everyone else had to quickly scramble to get a spoon to not miss out.
the person that missed out had to pick a card out of the deck, and another person dealt out the whole pack until they got to the card.
all the suits represented something, eg, diamonds meant a pinch.
so if you had 5 diamonds cards before you got to your card, you got five pinches.
it was a fun way of beating the crap out of people.

[Documad]

Yes. Our version involved grabbing spoons, and like musical chairs, there weren't enough of them, but I can't remember any of the rules of the actual card game part. I'm getting it confused with slapjack because I think that playing a jack was a big deal.

I once went away to some kind of Christian girls camp and played a card game where you were paired off against one person and played cards in stacks and you could play cards up and down in sequence. Anyhow, I used to play this game with my best friend all the time and at this stupid camp, they had a counselor who you could play and if you beat her you got a prize. The set up was that she was supposed to be so good that you couldn't beat her. But I beat her every single time so they had to make me ineligible. The point of that story is that I would really love to know the name of it so that I could look up the rules.

(I'm also really good at shooting things at sideshows. :rolleyes: )

[Medellia]

we played it in high school, we sat in a circle and put spoons in the middle (one less than the amount of people there were)
and then we passed cards around quickly and the first person to get a combination of four had to pick up a spoon, and then everyone else had to quickly scramble to get a spoon to not miss out.
This is exactly what I was talking about! I don't know anyone who does the beating the crap out of other people though.

[zorra_chiflada]

This is exactly what I was talking about! I don't know anyone who does the beating the crap out of other people though.

haha! i think it was just the school i went to! it was really frustrating, and we had to release our anger somehow!

[DandyFop]

Seriously, board games are one of the best past times ever. It's cheap and you actually get to talk to the people you are hanging out with. It's always hilarious, in my case. My friends and I always do it.

We try to play LOTR RISK once every few months...because in between we forget how much it makes us hate each other.

Cranium is a favorite.

Plus of course, my Star Trek Interactive VCR Board Game where you have to respond to the Klingon on the TV by hitting your communicator and yelling "yes captain kavok!".

One of the best ones is my friend Cory's "Group Therapy" where the cards challenge you to "sit in someone else's lap. Rock back and forth and make the appropriate noises" or "choose someone in the group who doesn't like you and tell them why it's their problem". Then the group votes on if you actually did it with feeling.

For the funkiest board games I suggest yard sales. I've found some gems. But don't get something just for the kitch because I bought a sorta expensive ALF board game and it's so boring.

[Medellia]

We try to play LOTR RISK once every few months...because in between we forget how much it makes us hate each other.
This reminds me, at a party I went to Nov. 2002, when Bush was first threatening war with Iraq, my friends and I drunkenly made up a board game called Nuke-U-Lar (W)Risk. We never got around to actually playing it though.

PS-LOTR Trivial Pursuit pwns LOTR Risk. :p

[Lindsey_1535]

HOLY SHIT!! Did I miss out on the Spoons talk? :(

[Medellia]

HOLY SHIT!! Did I miss out on the Spoons talk? :(
No! We can still talk Spoons! Maybe we should make a special Spoons thread since it's not really a board game.

[zorra_chiflada]

No! We can still talk Spoons! Maybe we should make a special Spoons thread since it's not really a board game.

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT (!)

[Documad]

You really just need to invite friends over and bring out the games and see what happens. Invite married women who don't usually get out without the spouse, whatever.

One bad story: I used to belong to a women's dinner club where we didn't know each other well. We were put together by someone who knew us all. The dinners went pretty well, so someone suggested getting together to play games. We got together, all brought food and booze, and settled in to this woman's fabulous basement in the suburbs somewhere. We played Cranium in three teams. After the first game (which featured very mild rivarly compared to my regular groups) one of the women who was usually very outgoing stood up and announced, "I'm uncomfortable with this and it's changed the way I feel about the group." It broke up that night's fun and the whole dinner club. But everytime I get together to play games now, one of the people will mock her and make that speech which is very funny when you're been drinking.

[Lindsey_1535]

SPOONS THREAD!! :D