Board Games

[infinite monkey]

Trivia games (I miss the old Trivial Pursuit with the Art and Lit category. Mom killed us in history, but we teased her that it was because she lived through it all.)

Rummikub

Husker Du with my nieces

So many others I can't think of. I love games. When my family and I play a new game, we decide first if it's a "blurter" game or not. For example, you can't just keep blurting out answers in Trivial Pursuit until someone goes "THAT'S IT" you have to settle on one answer or shut up. Some games are all about the blurt.

As much as I love wordplay (like cryptic [british] crosswords) I've never been very good at scrabble or boggle...anything with making words out of a set of letters. Weird.

monster: my friends and I play yahtzee a lot and I make them put their name and the date at the tops of their score cards so we can look back at scores and who won when. I'm competitive too. Well, also, we can see how badly we mess up the cards after so many beers.

[Spexxvet]

Growing up we played most of the usual: Shoots & Ladders, Candyland, then Monopoly, Clue, Chess, Stratego. As a late teen, I played a lot of Risk (even triple-board Risk), and a (I think) little known game called Careers. As an adult we usually got the new games and played with family and friends: Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, Blurt, Taboo. BTW, drunk and stoned Memory (ages 3 and up) is a challenging blast. But mostly we were and are a card playing family. I was playing Pinochle and six-handed Canasta when I was about 10 years old. We still play Hearts and Oh Pshaw Bridge fairly regularly. In our early teens, my brother and I would go through Hoyles and learn new games. Learned Cribbage that way.