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Decisions, decisions! Who gets to decide which game we get to play?
 
And, with the decision of who picks comes the inevitable decision of who's rules will be used since few people actually stick to the original rules of the game anyway. according to some, that makes the game boring.

Wrangling over the options makes everyone look bad to the authority figures in the room since no one wants to wake up the sleeping giant in the recliner who watches out of the corner of one eye until time to dispense attitude adjustments.

So since everyone can't pick the game we play, how do we decide?

Draw straws? Roll with loaded dice? Shuffle and cut for the high card?

Or just wear down the opposition with incessant whining?

And when the game begins, how do we protect what is ours without encroaching upon another or loosing our valuable pieces in the process?
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Should I rofl.gif ? This is in humor, but I don't get it.

Have you ever played Fluxx, Bama?


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I'm afraid I don't see the humor either. Is this some kind of cryptic message? I'll go ahead and laugh, though, cuz something must be funny. rofl.gif

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The rooster crows at midnight.

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I guess you never have played with children.

Don't know what Fluxx is. Never heard of it, Hiccups.

But I have played Phonetic Scrabble and Strip Old Maid.



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Strip Old Maid. Hmmmm. That would be interesting to try online. laughing.gif

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yeah, but who would moderate our honesty in 'taking it all off'?



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The webcams.

I am not, however, suggesting this as it would be against my religion, ahem.

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giggle.gif

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Well ok, how about Pit? It's a fast-paced game of trade. Just be sure to don't get the bear or the bull. Although some people like to use the bull as the last card needed to get the corner on the market.

I once played this game with my brother and a friend of mine and my friend didn't even deal the bull or the bear she sat on them throughout the game. My brother automatically gave her -40 points for it.

-- Edited by Poncho29 at 11:17, 2008-01-03

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webcams are only against religion when you're caught. hee hee

and no I have never played Pit.

the only card games I am any good at are most definately off the plan around here 'cause they use face cards.



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Since when are face cards back in the dog house? I thought that was an early-eighties fad no-no.

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Well, then what are we going to play?

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Canasta?

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Euphrasie wrote:

Since when are face cards back in the dog house? I thought that was an early-eighties fad no-no.





I didn't know that face cards were ever a no-no. What 80's thing was that about?

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My sisters and sisters-in-law have tried to teach me Yukre. (Did I spell that right?) But I still don't get it, can anyone explain it to me?

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I think it was just made up. You know, how people like to make up stuff? Cuz like, there's not enough rules anyway? Caffeine... (hoss could fill some stuff in here... i'm drawing a blank)

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Yeah, a bunch of people said that face cards shouldn't be allowed because they were used to play gambling games. It was pretty much made up, with a possible tangential support by BRM, I think.

I think you're talking about Euchre, Poncho? It's really hard to explain in any terms more specific than a 'partner-based, trick taking game.' Like Pinochle or Bridge, you just have to spend some time playing it.

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My favorite games are things that make you think.

I don't enjoy playing games that depend more upon luck than skill. And yes, that would be because I don't do well in them.

That's why we do all the stuff we choose, because it's something we understand and do well in, right.

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I knew I wasn't spelling it right. Yeah, that's about all I have been able to decipher out of it that it is a game where you have a partner and you try to bluff or trick each other or something.

I've seen some people who are masters at it. I used to know how to play it, but I forgot sometime a long time ago.

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If you're good enough, you can overcome the bad luck, though. I think all games have some element of luck... confuse.gif Maybe not checkers.

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Now Cranium, that's a fun game to play.

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I like hide and go seek although that isn't a board game. I have successfully taught our various dogs to play it. The seeking part was quick. teaching them to hide without wagging their tails took time.

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I like cranium, too. Four-player pinochle's fun, too.

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My mild mannered brother-in-law and my 9 year old daughter at the time we played it teamed up together (because our birthdays were January, February and March) and we kicked butt when we played Cranium.

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People hate playing Cranium for me. Apparently the game was optimized for me... art/trivia/vocabulary/spelling/Pictionary... One time a like-minded friend and I went through the whole board before anyone else got a chance to play... they had to seperate us. :)

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btw, I hate Pit, and when forced to play it, I'll quietly collect one of every different resource so that the game gets drawn out forever... biggrin.gif

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That's evil. I like Pit though.

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That collect some of everything method is how my oldest punk plays Monopoly. Then he slowly drains the lifeblood out of every player until he wins.

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rook yet. Yeesh, and you call yourselves Mormons? wink.gif

I could be wrong but it's my understanding that face cards started to be frowned upon when some early Saints got so obsessed with playing Bridge that they were neglecting their families, and the Brethren told them to be more careful. It evolved from there into seeing face cards as "evil", which is one of the reasons why Rook became so popular.

In Southern Alberta it's almost the fourteenth article of faith that you need to play Rook, and play it well. It's a blood sport down there.

Personally, our favorite game right now is Balderdash. Sons 1 and 2 are getting really good at it, and the games are getting closer all the time. My all-time favorite definition made up during one of our games is one by 12yo son. "A Jamaican insult questioning gender." That boy is almost too smart for his own good.

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I won Monopoly once by pure luck. Everyone thought I'd be the first to go. I was the one with the least property or money, but somehow I managed to avoid landing on everybody's spaces who had all the property and big bucks (I kept getting off cheap by landing on spaces like "the luxury tax") they duked it out to the death and I was left standing with my railroads and waterworks! Oh, I did have Boardwalk and Parkplace. But, that was it! biggrin.gif

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Rook is hubby's game.

He and his family would miss meals, skip baths and stay up till all hours of the day and night playing, if I allowed it. ha ha ha


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totally reminds me of my childhood making homemade bombs, blowing up fireworks in mailboxes, launching siblings into orbit with homemade flying machines that inevitably required a trip to the E.R. for stiches. . .

(I lived in a neighborhood with a boy-girl ratio of 10/1)

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btw, board games and card games we're playing most right now.

Card Games:

Incan Gold
Bang!
And It Came to Pass
Rage
Coloretto
Hand and Foot
Descending Rook

Board Games:

Ticket to Ride (boardgame, with many expansions...)
Pirateer
Settlers of Catan
Scrabble/Upwords/Boggle
Blokus
Sequence

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card games for hubby are ROOK, Mormon bridge, Shanghai, Tick and Phase 10.

board games for me are trivial pursuit, scrabble, boggle, and yhatzee.

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alabamabelle wrote:
Mormon bridge,

confused.gifdescription please...  Never heard of Mormon bridge...

Personally, we LOVE Canasta, but the couple friends we have taught to play keep moving with other job opportunities.  Dang economy!



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since I don't play card games all I know is that hubby's family plays it and it's a card game.

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