What Games Amuse you

[Diamondback]

Absolutely! Chess is, after all, a headgame - making your opponent play worse will get you a similar result to you playing better .

It also helps that the crowd I run with, technical skill is the only thing we respect--the distractor and the guy who just bought a bunch of cherrypicked singles off evilBay or various vendors and wants to "buy the victory" are equally subject to scorn, and the only reason I get a pass on my high-powered assets and powergaming tactics is that I have a long time collecting and a considerable amount of tactics-analysis I've made available to everyone else in my background. The fact that it's WWII, and everyone knows I practically eat, sleep and breathe WWII, may buy me some slack too...

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Now playing: Bill Conti - St. Cyril's Monastery
via FoxyTunes

 

[zetwal]

I wonder if flirting would be considered a tactic..

Remember this scene? Before Austin Powers there was -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA8YpHQHBd0

 

[Darhling]

Remember this scene? Before Austin Powers there was -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA8YpHQHBd0

Actually, that clip was EXACTLY what I thought about..

 

[zetwal]

I was able to liven up a fairly tense dinner party with the dictionary game. A good dictionary is required. I find old English dictionary's contain lots more rarely heard of words.

Each player is handed a piece of paper and a pencil for scoring. The first person has to read out a word selected at random from the dictionary and say what the word means. The player has the option of fabricating the description, but must think on their feet.

I love this game too! We always called it BALDERDASH.

 

[olive bleu]

the 2 mainstays in my house were FLINCH and CROKINOLE

 

[RC]

I've inherited my grandmothers gorgeous set of inlaid wood folding game tables, a year's worth of different specialized card game linens and cocktail napkins, and seemingly a million decks of cards. Now, if I just actually KNEW how to play bridge or had any buddies that did!
lol

 

[Sarge]

Being born and raised in Indiana, Euchre has always been in my blood. I can remember many an evening, as a kid, playing Euchre around my grandparent’s kitchen table. I’ve always loved Euchre but being from Indiana I don’t think I ever really had a choice.

 

[Dexter'sDame]

Backagammon anyone?

Sarge, believe it or not, some of us originally from Indy did actually go the no-Euchre route. Countless late evenings waiting for my parents to "just finish this game" so we could go home did it. (The love of Indy car racing stuck, however.)

Backgammon, anyone? ;-) Sorry for the typo in the title-- I'm not sure how to edit that!

 

[Geronimo]

Monopoly, Axis & Allies, Risk. Blackjack's the only card game I remember the rules of.

 

[Tiller]

My family mostly plays card games. Euchre being the chief among them.We also play tons of different poker games, as well as other games such as "screw your neighbor", follow the lady, jack an better trips to win, 31, and hi-low, among others. Of them I find follow the lady to be one of the most challenging since the wild cards are always changing.

As far as board games there is chess, checkers, Monopoly, Apples to Apples, and a few others. Me and my cousin used to play Risk with each other all the time, until we were about 19-20. At the time we played a game the last about eight hours in total, we have never played the game since lol.

 

[Spitfire]

Not really into cardgames.

But Risk and Axis & Allies are fun.
Though I easily gets bored with naval warfare and invasions - so I always try very hard not to play USA. Too much water to sail around in

The game Besserwizzer (invented by a dane by the way) is also GREAT fun and so much better than Trivial P.

 

[Diamondback]

Spitfire, on A&A, you might check out the ground-game side of the Miniatures line--the boxes are a little pricey at US$13 a pop and addictive like crack, but it lets you take command at a company or battalion level without the wet-side stuff.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

A favourite of Mrs. B and I is Articulate. Great fun although we don't together as much as we did as we have so many in-jokes we almost have our own language. lol

My very favourite game is one called Rich Uncle.

A trip to my Grandparents was never complete without a game.

 

[Spats McGee]

Let's see . . . Risk, Axis & Allies, Yahtzee, darts, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit. I haven't quite gotten my daughter, who is 6, to play many of those, but her time's coming, I'm sure. She'll play checkers with me, but that's the only boardgame she'll play.

 

[Missy Hellfire]

I do enjoy a game of Gin Rummy (Or Runny Jim as I used to call it as a child!). Very fond of Knockout Whist - a trick based game and I do love a game of scrabble or Trivial Pursuit although I am very bad at the sports questions!

 

[Shangas]

I enjoy Mahjong, not for money obviously, it a wonderfully loud gregarious game.

YAY! Another Mahjong player!

Annoyingly, Mahjong does have a terrible reputation when it comes to gambling. But that has not helped to diminish my love of it at all. Although some of my friends used to say that without the gambling, it gets boring. It sure is LOUD, though, I'll say that much. The clattering of tiles and the shouting makes Mahjong a very loud (and enjoyable) game. They say the noisier it is, the more fun people are having.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

I work Down town and, thankfully, we have a garden, I'm Going to suggest we play croquet, for the older staff members, my organisation does pilates, for the 20 somethings, I want my civilised croquet, its only fair do admit?

 

[Shangas]

I always thought of croquet as a sport of the 18th and 19th centuries. Was it still popular in the "Golden Era", between ca. 1900-1950? When did it finally die out as a popular/fashionable pasttime? Did it ever?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

http://www.croquet-nsw.com/?/clubs-sydney.html

"Its still rather large"

 

[scottyrocks]

The first card game I learned how to play as a child was Casino, and I grew up with Scrabble, Monopoly, Life, Uncle Wiggly (yeah, I know . . . )

One board game that I still get a kick out of was called Frustration then, and then Trouble later on. 'Pop-o-matic, pop the dice, pop a six and you move twice. Chase you men around the track and try to send the others back.'