Board Games I own
Submitted by spoky on Mon, 12/16/2002 - 13:52
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- Sequence : This is a very fun board/card game that my sister gave me as a Christmas present a few years ago now. The game play is very simple: two(three) teams try to make 2(1) sequence of five by taking turns placing chips on the game board that matches one in their hand. The more people that are one your team the less cards each individual has. Jacks are wild (one-eyed removes any chip, two-eyed place a chip anywhere) and the game is played with two decks. It is a very simple game but really is a lot of fun. Since my sister got this for me; me or someone else in my family have given Sequence as a present to someone at least 3 times.
- Scattergories : This is a pretty standard game that I am sure a lot of people have heard of. You roll the die to get a starting letter and then each person has to fill out a list of words starting with that letter in a certain time period (90 seconds??). This one is much more fun with more people.
- Tri-Bond : This is another one am sure most people have heard of. Works along the lines of here are three things tell me what they have in common. Some of the questions are very easy, others have very obscure connections. If you play it enough you quickly go through all the questions and start getting repeats which lowers the enjoyment a little. We did that last summer so we haven't played it much lately. Hopefully we will have forgotten the answers by the next time we play.
- Chess (Regular, Electronic, Travel, Chess Clock) : I won't bother describing this one, even if you do not play most people recognise chess when they see it. Instead a story of my chess life. I was really into chess when I was in junior high school. I regularly played in tournaments both school sponsored and otherwise. I was even a member of the Canadian Chess Federation for about two or three years. I forget what my chess rating was but I didn't stay in it long enough to get a very high one. My best chess results were in grade eight (I think, it might have been grade 7), I won the regional chess tournament for my age group and came second in the provincials. I pretty much stopped playing other then the occasional game when I hit high school and discovered AD&D. As you might have guessed I was not really in with the "cool" crowd when I was in school, chess and rpg's!
- Backgammon : Another I think most people should recognise I stole this from my father when I went away to university, I am not even sure if he realises that I have it still. I didn't get to play it as much as I would have liked, but my roommate and I brought with us a few times to a nice little bar in town where we could sit down with a few drinks and play a few games.
- Cribbage:
- Beyond Balderdash:
- Blockers:
- Rummoli:
- Oxford Dilemma:
- Cranium:
- Play on Words:
- Fluxx:
- Coda:
- The Lord of The Rings Risk:
- Blokus:
- Set:
- Settlers of Catan (Seafarers, Cities and Knights)
- Moocho Sudooko
- Apples to Apples
- Scrabble
- Carcassonne (Big Box plus the River, Abbey and Mayor)
- Bendominos (Toddler version)
- Puerto Rico
- Pente
I was going to clone this list when I remembered you can't clone stuff in "custom" genres. I really must fix that some day. Anyway, here's my version. Always nice to meet a fellow gamer.
Oooh, I LOVE Beyond Balderdash...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs