monkeygirl Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 So, do you play board games? Or games that are like board games?Two of my recent faves aren't really board games but I LOVE them and what to know if you do, too?SALAD BOWL: I learned this on the Girl Trip some years back. Teams of 2 compete-you keep your partner throughout the game.the game is 3 rounds of guessing single words at a time. Everyone gets little pieces of paper. Somehow, thegroup chooses a letter and everyone writes single words on the papers that start with that letter (same as henumber of persons playing). All the papers get tossed in a big salad bowl-hence-and you choose scraps and makeyour partner say the word. First round-you can say or act anything out as long as you don't use the word.Second round is like $10.000 pyramid-you can only say one word-no gesturing and the 3rd round is charades.This is especially hilarious to play with someone who cannot talk without gesturing. Tommy got to playthis with us the year he visited the GT. The table was like 3/4 lesbians and the letter was S. Tommy chose SODOMY.It was a hilarious fail.LEFT, CENTER, RIGHT: Dice game you buy-special dice with star, L, R and dot on the sides. Game uses tokens, we use dollarbills. Three rounds, you bring 3 ones. The more people that play, the more you can win. Each person rolls thethe number of dice that correspond to the number of bills they have-everyone starts rolling 3, if you only haveone dollar, you only roll one die. Money is directed by the dice to the person to your left, your right in thecenter (star) to build the jackpot and a dot means you keep your money. You don't roll if you're broke but youstay in the game in case someone rolls money to you. Last person alive with at least $1 wins the jackpot. We carrythem over so only one person wins the big one.Even if you don't play now-were you the STAR of your family/friends at a certain game?And finally-DO YOU CHEAT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaycie Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 My family plays a vicious game of monopoly each reunion and yes there's rampant cheating/modification of standard rules. I didn't even know how to properly play the game until I was a teenager. It mostly involves a lot of literal "under the table" surprise business mergers and weird **** like that. I haven't personally participated though as I haven't been to a reunion really since reaching adulthood (they are every four years I think) and the age limit is strictly set to 18 and over. This isn't a board game but like your stuff it's still a game! My friends and I played cross country spoons while at summer and winter retreat each year. Basically you play Spoons but instead of the spoons being on the table they were all the way across the camp grounds. There were a lot of injuries involved in that game and you really can't cheat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Cards Against Humanity is the obvious best game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Noah really likes board games. So we regularly play Sorry!, The Game of Life, Spider-man/Star Wars Monopoly, Blockus, Sequence for kids (we need to buy the grown-up version), Disney Pictopia, checkers, and, of course, chess. We also all really like to play the card games Uno and Set. At our family reunions we play dominoes. Mostly 42. That's the only time I really get to play because Trevor isn't a big domino guy. I should teach Noah how to play. Katrina set up a great Cards Against Humanity game online the other day. That was a lot of fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I would basically be a hipster if I was cool enough, so I drink a lot of IPAs and play board games. I'll break them up into categories:Party Games: The Game of Things - fun, often starts out pretty tame and then quickly turns perverse. Only limit is your imagination.Balderdash - Always fun, a classic Word Games:Bananagrams, Appletters, Pears in Pairs - All pretty much the same type of game, all fun games that my wife enjoysScrabble - My wife loves it. I hate it.Strategy Games:This is my favorite genre, so I'm just going to mention a coupleSettlers of Catan - This is the strategy game that everyone plays. Not my favorite game, and you can typically tell within the first three rounds who's going to winLast Night on Earth: The Zombie Game - The best, most thematic strategy game I've played. I could play this game on a daily basis, but haven't had an opportunity since August.Card Games:Poker - Only for money. I'm better than most of the people I play with, so I generally win. That helps me enjoy it. I frequently intentionally lose, though, so people don't hate playing against me.Euchre - People get intense about this, even without money involved. Simple, fun.Fluxx - Simple card game for kids and adults, but everyone I've played against has enjoyed itBang - Western-themed card game that involves trying to kill people.Dominion - The granddaddy of my favorite genre of card games - the deck building game. Not collecting, like Magic, but building your deck from a centralized pool. Not my favorite of the genre (Resident Evil wins) but fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Driver Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I award likes to Fozzie for knowing the difference between board, party and card games. TAMI YOU CANT CALL THE THREAD BOARD GAMES AND THEN NAME GAMES WITH NO BAORDS. Also, points to Reese for Set, because that game is the most equally fun/infuriating game ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerina Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I ****ing LOVE SET!!!! My 5th grade teacher had it and I would do nothing but play that game every chance I got. And I'd almost forgotten about it, but then spotted it at a booth of "educational" games at a home school conference and nearly came unglued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Pit is another fun card game. Old school teaching kids about capitalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoLA Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I love board games! But no one I know ever wants to play them. Favorites are Clue, Monopoly and Life but none of them hold a card to an old board game I inherited called Cloak & Dagger, based off of an old movie from the 80's! I kill at that game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Krawlie Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Oh. Get drunk and play battleship. That shits awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mara Jade Skywalker Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 We have Cards Against Humanity parties a lot. It's pretty much the perfect game. I found a Disney version online and want to make a Star Wars version. We also have Poo and We Didn't Playtest This. There's a game called Slash, which is basically a fanfic game, and we'll be buying it as soon as it becomes available again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 OMG YTOUI GUYS! You''re naming games I have never heard of I can't wait to try!!! yeah-Seth-sorry_ thought about that. HOW DO I CHANGE THE TITLE? I award likes to Fozzie just because of sheer VOLUJME I've never learned to play chess-have always liked watching others play. I'd like to have filmed some of Jaycie's family's games of cut-throat Monopoly. I LOVE families/people who take games SRSLY. LOVE. Simple as it is, I still adore Chutes & Ladders. Still like a good game of Backgammon, too and have always wanted to learn Mah Jongg just because I love the tiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I also played a game called Pandemic last night, which involves trying to stop diseases from spreading. It's a co-operative game, and can be pretty stressful and easy to lose. But I'm awesome so we won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kurgan Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Axis and Allies was one I liked. My father and uncle played Third Reich, a meticulously detailed old school war game that took hours to set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I want to play that some day, but I don't want to own it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good God a Bear Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Imaginiff is an awesome game. It's a board game where you roll the dice and where it lands on someone's name you ask a question and everyone has to choose from the multiple choice the best answer about the person. The choice with the majority of the votes wins the round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms. Spam Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 So, I don't play a lot of board games. I did play DnD a lot in high school. If I would be pressed for a board game it is Scrabble. Mostly we play card games. I love Apples to Apples or Grace - which is similar to Gin Rummy but you play in large groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kurgan Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I played a fair bit of D&D in Jr. High, and again just out of high school. I also played Magic: The Gathering in the late 90s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kurgan Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I want to play that some day, but I don't want to own it. Another one put out by the same people who did Axis and Allies was called Fortress America. A product of mid 1980s cold war paranoia to be sure, the game featured an invasion of the US from the Soviet bloc along the east coast, the Chinese/North Koreans along the west coast and a loose alliance of revolutionary Latin American governments from the south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest El Chalupacabra Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Does operation count as a board game? I like the classics: Monopoly, Sorry, Checkers, Dominoes, Stratego, Battleship, & Scrabble. have to be in the mood for chess. I ****ing LOVE SET!!!! ??? Are you a Set worshiper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Human Torch Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I used to play a lot of bored games. Life and Monopoly were standards. Balderdash became popular for a while, but I grew tired of it when I realized my lie was never discovered unless I wrote it in a way it was easy to spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I used to play a lot of bored games.[. . .] but I grew tired of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDog Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 The website itsyourturn let's you play some of this stuff at your own pace worldwide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashmere Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Man, lots of great ones mentioned so far. I want to hang out with Fozzie when he has spare time again! I will have to find my photo of my game closet to post. I own or regularly play 90% of the games already mentioned and I have tons more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 I should take a pic of our games. The area is messy because we still haven't gotten our act together after moving, but who cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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