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What games do you play?

17 years ago

I got hooked on Marbles and a few others over the summer thanks to Monoblair,need some new games for the long winter that is sneaking up on us real fast. What are your favorites?

June

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wanda_va
17 years ago
My favorites are on Shockwave--jigsaw and word puzzles.
izzie
17 years ago
I have played this w/ family for years, we called it 10,000, thats what you have to get to win. All you need is 6 dice and a cup to shake and paper to keep score. I saw they sell in the stores now, Farkcle, or something like that. You can have as few as 2 or as many players as you want. Lots of fun. I found the instructions on-line: http://members.aol.com/dicetalk/rules/10000.txto find instrustions o

To clarify: You need to decide to keep points or keep rolling. If you make a roll and don't get any (points)Pointers you loose all points. If you get 1,2,3,4,5,6 (in one roll) you get to keep those and roll all the dice again to keep getting points, even if you get nothing on the 2nd roll of all dice.. Ones and fives you can accumulate over a series of rolls. The three of a kind must be done in a single roll. If you have any questions I will try to answer them. There is something I'm forgetting, havn't played for a while.
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Lily, I would play with you too! Maybe you can find a source of games in your community. A venue in my area has Game Night once a month, attended by people of all ages. Some of the games look rather intense and seem to require a lot of thought (Pandemic is one), but I've played lighter games there with a friend. If you're close to my age you could probably find games at a local senior center. You could also poll your friends to see if there's any interest. Who knows--some may be silently yearning for a fun game. Fran, I was thinking about bridge recently. I haven't played since the 1960's, but I'd be willing to read up on it and see if I could join a group. However, I remember my husband was not thrilled with my bridge playing. He was a serious duplicate bridge player, and I like to chat while I play. Chances are the local groups would feel the same way my husband did about my playing style. LOL Foggy, I looked up Telestrations, and it sounds like great fun. But I wonder if the two artists in my group would spoil some of the fun. They are very good. Playing Cranium on my team recently, one of them had to draw a saddle with her eyes closed. It was perfect. Socks, thanks for the tip about Hoot Owl Hoot and Peaceable games!
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dorio_pa
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Scrabble and Uno are our families favorites. We have a scrabble dictionary, which makes it fun to learn new words.

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Chemocurl zn5b/6a Indiana
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Racko,
Flinch...am not sure if it is still available
Mancala...GF and I are hooked on that one!

Connect 4 is a good one if playing with children, even those who are quite young. Each game takes about 5 minutes, so they will stay with it for more than a game or two, particularly if you let them win about 1/2 the time until they get good enough that they can truly beat you. I enjoy the hand held battery one that I can play by myself. It is good to take on a long trip by car for anyone to use and enjoy.

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Dee1
17 years ago
Sue, you can still buy Flinch. I just bought a new game about a year ago. My granddaughters play it with me. Another one they like is Miles Bournne. Not sure if that is spelled right. It's an auto race game where you try to give your opponent flat tires, speeding tickets, etc. The first one to reach 5000 miles wins the game. It's fun!
budster
17 years ago
Mexican Train....in fact I just bought a set of double fifteen dominos to add more to the game. I also play scrabble, upwords, boggle and bought a new word game recently called Bananagrams. We also have spill and spell (an oldie but goodie) and I came across a miles bourne game at a thrift store last year. Seems I misplaced the one we had in the 70's. If the game is cheap enough I will purchase it on speck at a thrift and so far we have been lucky and gotten complete games. One store even lets you check things out to see what is missing inside. For cards we play crib and that is about all besides solitarie.
dorio_pa
17 years ago
Forgot about Rummikub we love that one too! Amazon has quite a few sets and they are inexpensive. We also enjoyed Apples to Apples last winter.

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Vickey__MN
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Pit (Based on the stock market) is my favorite. Hard to find, but it is fun!

We just spent the weekend with my brothers family and broght out Jenga, hadn't played it years, it was the hit of the weekend! We bought it about 15 years ago, played it once, didn't like it. Played it at a friends about a year ago, and found out it WAS fun, then played it all weekend!

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We play cards quite a bit - gin rummy, spades, hearts, canasta, Uno, go-fish with Chloe.

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