Because it's fun! Because last year we had a Storyline thread going, where we made up a story. There were regular contributors on that one. To see what people know. (I was stuck on the museums) To see how long we run out of ideas to ask. Oh, oh, I did. To see if we can always come up with 5 answers. Name 5 places you've LIVED.

Haven't played LRC in years but that's a classic and very do-able. Bananagrams is a family standard and I know my niece has it and could bring it for their visiting time. The only problem with card games is remembering the rules! Not sure where all our decks went...... I'm sure I moved at least one. I used to love Heads Up! Forgot all about it but it's time to get it again.Amazon has newsprint pads so that's perfect for Pictionary. Great ideas one and all - thank you!

"I can use Google apps on my Apple iPhone, and sync that iPhone with my Microsoft laptop running Windows." Apple products are still less, not more, interoperable with third party products. A friend of mine, a pretty consistent Apple products user, has to maintain a Windows PC to use three very common financial products - Turbo Tax, Quicken, and Quickbooks. One of the three-maybe Turbo Tax - has a Mac version but my friend says it sucks compared to the Windows version. I think two of the others aren't available at all in Mac versions. These are widely used programs, with tens of millions of customers. As far as Apple compatibility with other standard products, well, duh. Maps are another good example. The iPhone map app has struggled, playing catchup for years and years and (according to iphone users I know) still isn't there yet. They could easily encourage use of the Google Map app to give users a more useful capability but they won't do so. My immediate thought concerning what lars was talking about when he said "I prefer to have more choices than what Apple offers". is how in the Apple world, there are few user configurable options and no alternative sources of equipment manufacturers (which keeps prices somewhere in check). As an example of inflexibility, I use Itunes as a "podcaster" or podcast aggregator. In it I choose what podcast series I want to receive regularly and when I trigger an update, it does the download. Itunes has this annoying feature that it periodically unsubscribes me from podcasts I've set up to have downloaded. . I called Apple support and asked why. The support guy asked "Do you ever listen to the podcasts on your PC?" I said "No". He said "That's one of the most useful features - when you haven't listened to the podcast in (I think he said) 2 weeks, we know you don't want it anymore so we switch the status to "not subscribed". I said - "No, not at all. I download the podcasts to the PC but then transfer the files to two different portable players that I use to listen to them. In doing that, I never listen on the PC. How can I change the setting so that it doesn't keep unsubscribing me". He replied- "You can't change that setting, it's made that way to be most useful to our customers" I got what I should have expected - a BS answer akin to the joke from long ago in the consumer-market software industry - No, that isn't a bug, that's an intentional feature. WIndows PC and Android device users are accustomed to being able to choose configuration options so that the devices behave as they prefer. I understand that at first pass sometimes for beginner level users, this can provide some difficulties and frustrations but all of it is well documented and can be learned. Apple products often don't offer options.

nerdlegame 108 4/6 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛🟪 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟪🟩⬛ 🟪🟩🟩⬛🟩🟪🟩🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Interesting challenge. I had to make a guess to make sure I was going in the right direction.