Board Games

**Just KC** · 07-02-08, 01:17 AM

Do any of you have family game night at home?? What is your favorite board game?? We try and do it weekly. Kids just love it! Today I bought dominoe's and Scrabble. I love Scrabble and first time I have owned the game. Another one of our favorites is Blokus and Pictureka! We have cabinets full of games......

**Autumn2009** · 07-02-08, 01:18 AM

When I was growing up, if you brought a board game into the house my mom would shoot you. She hated them. Thus I have been scarred for life.

**Ender** · 07-02-08, 01:26 AM

Trivial Pursuit here. I am the champion of facts that are useless unless watching Jeopardy! or playing Trivial Pursuit.

Sometimes I even piss people off with the random stuff I know. My ex g/f did NOT like playing against me. Then again, she had an "I'm smarter than everyone, every time," kinda complex. Same reason she wouldn't play chess with me

**Just KC** · 07-02-08, 01:26 AM

Seriously, Autumn?? Why..how did she hate them?

**Just KC** · 07-02-08, 01:28 AM

LOL Ender......i have never learned to play Chess. It looks so complicated and I hate games that take hours to play.....like Monopoly lol

**Willowdared** · 07-02-08, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by Ender

Trivial Pursuit here. I am the champion of facts that are useless unless watching Jeopardy! or playing Trivial Pursuit.

Sometimes I even piss people off with the random stuff I know. My ex g/f did NOT like playing against me. Then again, she had an "I'm smarter than everyone, every time," kinda complex. Same reason she wouldn't play chess with me

Ahhhhh - a fellow sexual intellectual!

aka

Effin Know-it-All

**Willowdared** · 07-02-08, 01:33 AM

We don't really have a "family" night, but we do like to break out the board games.

Scrabble, Clue, Yatzee, Masterpiece, Uno and Michigan Rummy...to name a few.

With my friends....Trivial Pursuit, and Pictionary...Taboo is fun too.

**Autumn2009** · 07-02-08, 01:53 AM

Originally Posted by Just KC

Seriously, Autumn?? Why..how did she hate them?

Cause she's crazy? Lol.

**keith720** · 07-02-08, 02:29 AM

When my kids were home, I loved to play "Monopoly." I still like to play "Trouble." When my Mom had cancer and I was in High School, we used to play that all of the time, so I relate it to good times I had with her. Like Ender, I love to play "Trivial Pursuit" as I also know a lot of useless facts!

**armsmaster270** · 07-02-08, 02:39 AM

Kids are gone now we play 4 or 6 handed Canasta with friends and family

**Ender** · 07-02-08, 03:46 AM

Originally Posted by Just KC

LOL Ender......i have never learned to play Chess. It looks so complicated and I hate games that take hours to play.....like Monopoly lol

Chess is truly a game you can learn in an hour, and take a lifetime to master. The rules are pretty simple.

The history of the game is pretty amazing also... for instance, in the Middle East there is no Queen in chess...because women should never have power of any sort--the Queen is replaced by some high ranking army type guy, iirc. Bishops, which can move along diagonals any number of spaces, used to only be able to move 3 spaces at a time, and could not 'jump' pieces, only capture on the 3 space mark...etc etc)

VERY cool game. I played a buddy tonight. He won the first game, where I was up a LOT piece wise, after I made ONE stupid move. I spanked him in the second game, and the 3rd game I was up quite a bit in both position and pieces, made one stupid move, and triumphantly stalemated the game at the end.....hmph

**Wolven** · 07-02-08, 08:23 AM

When we were younger..Monopoly. We would set up a game and play it for days at a time. Got really nasty too.

But it was a lot of fun.

As an adult..Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary are my favs. My sister and I used to also play a lot of chess...but we haven't played in a long time (probably because she lives 3000 miles away..but I am trying to fix that!)

**Shoestring** · 07-02-08, 08:42 AM

Chess is my fav.

scrabble, monopoly, etc. are all fun too

ohh

Apples to Apples
(This game is fricken great, you have to check it out, great for all ages)

**JAYBIRD33081** · 07-02-08, 09:17 AM

me and the ex would play with friends monopoly trouble life clue. Loved playing battleship when i was a youngster

**lewisipso** · 07-02-08, 12:54 PM

Sorry... That's the game, not the apology.

**Ducky** · 07-02-08, 01:07 PM

I'm the same boat with Ender on Trivial Pursuit. People also hate watching Jeopardy with me.

I tend to play the games that offer insight into your friends' psyches. Outburst, etc.

**Buttercup** · 07-02-08, 04:48 PM

Trivial Pursuit, Trivial Pursuit Silver Screen edition, Scrabble, Monopoly, Yahtzee, and Taboo are probably my favorites. I enjoy board games.

**CTR man** · 07-02-08, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Shoestring

Apples to Apples
(This game is fricken great, you have to check it out, great for all ages)

Great card game, you can set it up for as many or as few as you want but the more the merrier.

**Cidp24** · 07-02-08, 10:48 PM

I used to love playing Risk at the fire station - chess is a blast but I suck at it.

**Just KC** · 07-02-08, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by Shoestring

Chess is my fav.

scrabble, monopoly, etc. are all fun too

ohh

Apples to Apples
(This game is fricken great, you have to check it out, great for all ages)

MY 12yr old is begging me to get Apples to Apples...we are going to pick it up this weekend!