What are your favorite games? If you talk about video games, I will have no idea what you are talking about. I really like backgammon. I've taught plenty of people to play here, so that I have some partners. I would like to get back into cribbage. Cribbage is a great game, but I've no one to play with at the moment even though I have a board and a printout of the rules. I used to play chess back in my uni days, not that I was any good, but I had a computerized board to practice on and that helped keep me in form a bit. Also, I have a card game called Set that is quite excellent and addicting. A bunch of my Japanese friends wanted to get their own cards, but it's not sold here and Amazon won't ship any games overseas. Copyright issues, I imagine. I had to send them to my folks' house and have them forward them to me. It's a pretty new game, I guess. Has anyone else played it?
i used to play spades a lot where i used to work. at first there was just one game going on, then it seemed like a few others would race up to get there first to play. next thing i know, there's tournaments and damn-near fistfights. it got pretty intense, but way fun. lots of yelling and screaming (think "dominos, muthafucka!!!!") and throwing stuff. after a while, it got too much for me though, just a bunch of dudes looking to fight about something. oh well. love UNO too GTWT :XXhippylove:
Water Polo, don't play many non-physical games, cept "apples to apples". I played polo every year in HS and then a rec team. Gonna do it again next year. Tough and really keeps you in shape. Plus I am left handed and have a lot of muscle that I inherited from my "freshman year varsity football" father. With the left handed thing everyone is so off since their muscles and moves are all backwards. Hell I even suck at defending other lefties since our whole bodies are used to doing everything the other way. I play the "hole set" position right in front of the goal in the middle and often use my left handed backhand. They also use me on the right side so we can launch double attacks. I played real hard in HS and did swimming during the off season. Our coach was tough and we didn't just train in the pool but we often did bleachers for our leg muscles. Love the sport, you can release some serious rage, you turn into a shark when the whistle blows. I have played in pools where you can watch the game from underwater like an aquarium. It is vicious! We have to wear strong thick bathing suits because people are always trying to rip your suit off, elbow, kick, pee on you, ect. One bitch nearly ripped my eyelid off! And contrary to popular belief, the treading water is the easy part, it's the constant swimming back and forth that is the tough part!
I like to play Settlers of Catan more than any other board game. Its a strategic game based on expanding your roads and building towns, in order to get more resources, which allow you to build even more roads and citites. You can play with 2 - 4 players, or you can get the expansion packs for bigger games. The great thing about it is the fact that it only takes 45 - 90 minutes tops, and even a first timer can pick up on it right away. Ahhh, I remember the good times we had back in college (man I sound old, but I'm not), smoking blunts, drinking Honeyweiss beer, and playing Settlers.
I used to play a lot of spades too GTWT, more by default than choice . As a guest of the county several times, there wasn't much else to do but play, eat, breathe, and fight over spades. I've seen some fucked up shit happen over that game, as in beat downs and shankings when money's on the table. I can't play any card or board games today, feels too much like doing time :roffl: asssit:
I play cards when i can. Most games Spades,Canasta(sp)aka 2 deck rummie,Poker of all sorts. I do play a mean game of candyland or Shoots and ladders with the kiddies. I used to play chess a lot till i went to the pokey and this one older dude would force me to play buy just asking and asking cause i was the only other one that did more then try to get the pawns across the board from the word go. Chess takes me back to 30 minute games with him ranting about strategy and "it's all in the mind". No shit douchebag you can't count strategy on your hand. Anyhoo that's all the games i know other than MW2...Steelcity Water polo interesting.I have seen it played but i was always a swimmer/diver so i had to go shave while yinz were finishing up in the pool.
That reminded me of a strategic board game called Diplomacy that some friends of mine play and I played a few times with them. The only draw back is that it takes a long time. I really whooped everybody's ass the second time I played. It was a combination of taking advantage of some unguarded territory and a few strategic doublecrosses. Also, forgot to mention scrabble earlier, a really excellent and interesting game. Reversi/Othello is quite popular in Japan. Someday, I'd like to get into Go. It's popular like chess is in the States, with past games explained in the newspaper. They even have games on TV on Sundays. Looks pretty tough, though. Edit: Connect 4 is also quite fun. One time in Amsterdam, we had a Connect 4 tournament at the hostel. It was basically Americans vs the Brits. My buddy from my hometown won the thing against a guy named "skins" from Liverpool. Ahh, good times, good times.
Love chess. Backgamma I haven't played in a long time. Any game that makes me think. Checkers is fun and a good way to kill time. On the computer I like to play Free Cell. Good card game. Peace....
I like cribbage, cannasta, spades, hearts. I like poker, but suck at it. Usually if I have money I'll keep going for the river card. Hey, anything can be turned over.lol. Used to love Stratego(sp) and battleship. Water polo always looked like fun. When I was a kid, my brother and I were on a swim team. We played just about any sport we could. Water polo always seemed like I'd end up drowning. I can tread all day, but like Canna said, the swimming will kill ya. Nobody will play monopily or stratego with me anymore since I'm a ruthless prick.:roffl:
Cool finally a member that's down with my games, if you wanna play sometime, my XBox Live name is CheeseKillsYou. Hit me up and we'll rage on the noobs!
Rock, paper, scissors is pretty popular here in Japan. asssit: Edit: Here is that game Set I mentioned in my first post. It's all about recognizing visual patterns. Usually people either love it or hate it. SET! How many sets can you find? I see three. Features of the Cards Rules The object of the game is to identify a 'set' of three cards from 12 cards laid out on the table. Each card has a variation of the following four features: (A) Color: Each card is red, green, or purple. (B) Symbol: Each card contains ovals, squiggles, or diamonds. © Number: Each card has one, two, or three symbols. (D) Shading: Each card is solid, open, or striped. A 'Set' consists of three cards in which each feature is EITHER the same on each card OR is different on each card. That is to say, any feature in the 'Set' of three cards is either common to all three cards or is different on each card. For example, the following are 'Sets': All three cards are red; all are ovals; all have two symbols; and all have different shadings. All have different colors; all have different symbols; all have different numbers of symbols; and all have the same shading. All have different colors; all have different symbols; all have different numbers of symbols, and all have different shadings. The following are not 'Sets': All have different colors; all are diamonds; all have one symbol; however, two are open and one is not. All are squiggles; all have different shadings; all have two symbols; however, two are red and one is not. The Magic Rule If two are... and one is not, then it is not a 'Set'. Quick Start For a quick introduction for anyone playing the card version, and especially for children under six, start with the small deck (just the solid symbols). This eliminates one feature, shading. Play as indicated below but only lay out nine cards. When you can quickly see a 'Set' with this 27 card mini version, shuffle the two decks together. You can try the quick start in this link. Here we eliminate the feature of shading, and test your skill in finding 4 'Sets' from a layout of 9. The Play The dealer shuffles the cards and lays twelve cards (in a rectangle) face up on the table so that they can be seen by all players. The players remove a 'Set' of three cards as they are seen. Each 'Set' is checked by the other players. If correct, the 'Set' is kept by the player and the dealer replaces the three cards with three from the deck. Players do not take turns but pick up 'Sets' as soon as they see them. A player must call 'Set' before picking up the cards. After a player has called 'Set', no other player can pick up cards until the first player is finished. If a player calls 'Set' and does not have one, the player loses one point. The three cards are returned to the table. If all players agree that there is no 'Set' in the twelve cards showing, three more cards (making a total of fifteen) are laid face up. These cards are not replaced when the next 'Set' is picked up, reducing the number to twelve again. If solitaire is being played, the player loses at this point. The play continues until the deck is depleted. At the end of the play there may be six or nine cards which do not form a 'Set'. The number of 'Sets' held by each player are then counted, one point is given for each and added to their score. The deal then passes to the person on the dealer's left and the play resumes with the deck being reshuffled. When all players have dealt, the game ends; the highest score wins.
