Cthulhu's Librarian
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Fluxx, Apples to Apples, Carcassonne, Trivial Pursuit, Cranium, Chrononauts, Star Munchkin, Pirates of the Spanish Main (although, like TB, I can't get any more ships)
what non-RPG/non-video games do you play?
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MonsterMash
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Let's see
Munchkin, Ogre/GEV, Squad Leader, Up Front, Backgammon, scrabble, the old Games Workshop Judge Dredd boardgame is great!
Munchkin, Ogre/GEV, Squad Leader, Up Front, Backgammon, scrabble, the old Games Workshop Judge Dredd boardgame is great!
Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
Group games: Monopoly (LotR version), Risk
Card games: Go Fish, Old Maid and Dora the Explorer Uno Jr. (all with my daughter)
Favorite games for two: Quarto and Quixo - variant tic-tac-toe style games that can be quite challenging.
Card games: Go Fish, Old Maid and Dora the Explorer Uno Jr. (all with my daughter)
Favorite games for two: Quarto and Quixo - variant tic-tac-toe style games that can be quite challenging.
Sado
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Don't have a whole lot because the ones I want are really expensive. I have Wizard Kings from Columbia Games, LOTR Risk (which I keep trying to use to lure my girl into gaming since she liked the movies), Classic Dungeon (love that old game), Buck Rogers Batle for the 25th century (a great Axis and Allies type game). Also have copies of Starfire and Star Fleet Battles around here spomewhere. All thin in addition to more mainstream stuff like chess, scrabble, yahtzee, Trivial Pursuit, etc
BTW, does anyone think they got a little ridiculous with the LOTR merchandise? I saw LOTR Backgammon, for crying out loud!
BTW, does anyone think they got a little ridiculous with the LOTR merchandise? I saw LOTR Backgammon, for crying out loud!
The Grackle
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Iuz said:I love Cosmic Encounters !
CE is one of the finest games known to man. Especially if you play a multiple alien power game. Mesmer/Vulch rules the school!
Back when I was first learning AD&D from my best friend's uncle, his group would play Cosmic Encounters in the late afternoon to work up their blood lust for the night's hack-and-slashing.
Pielorinho
Iron Fist of Pelor
My wife's not a gamer, but we play plenty of games. Her parents got us into Cribbage, which we play pretty often, and are pretty evenly matched at. I'm better at words than she is, so I tend to win our games of Boggle and Scrabble, but she plays anyway to be sweet. She's better at facts than I am, so she tends to win our games of Trivial Pursuit, though I play anyways to be sweet 
.
Those are our main games. At parties, we play a game called variously Pol Pot or The Hat Game, a type of charades that's immensely fun. The rules are as follows, if anyone's curious:
1) Everyone gets three scraps of paper, on each of which they write the name of a famous person or character. I always explain before the game that Frodo might be famous, but Elrond isn't; that Reagan is famous, but Paul Wellstone isn't; that Hercules is famous, but Ariadne isn't. Still always someone thinks they can get away with a Richilieu or a Ned Stark, and we mock them for it.
2) Fold up the slips and put them all in a hat.
3) Divide into two teams.
4) In round one, a player from team one has thirty seconds to draw as many slip from the hat as possible and describe the person on the slip. They can motion, sing, speak, whatever, as long as they don't say the name. If they pass on a name, they lose a point; otherwise, they gain one point for each name their team correctly guesses.
5) Play then passes to the other team, and back and forth until all the names have been drawn from the hat. If a team draws the last name from the hat and has some time left on the clock, take note.
6) Round two begins with the team that drew the last name continuing their turn, with however much time they have left on the clock. This round, when you're describing a person, you're limited to saying one word, although you may still gesture.
7) Once all the names are drawn, move to round 3 the same way you moved to round 2. In round 3, it's entirely charades: no speaking at all.
It's a tremendously fun game, great for parties.
Daniel
.Those are our main games. At parties, we play a game called variously Pol Pot or The Hat Game, a type of charades that's immensely fun. The rules are as follows, if anyone's curious:
1) Everyone gets three scraps of paper, on each of which they write the name of a famous person or character. I always explain before the game that Frodo might be famous, but Elrond isn't; that Reagan is famous, but Paul Wellstone isn't; that Hercules is famous, but Ariadne isn't. Still always someone thinks they can get away with a Richilieu or a Ned Stark, and we mock them for it.
2) Fold up the slips and put them all in a hat.
3) Divide into two teams.
4) In round one, a player from team one has thirty seconds to draw as many slip from the hat as possible and describe the person on the slip. They can motion, sing, speak, whatever, as long as they don't say the name. If they pass on a name, they lose a point; otherwise, they gain one point for each name their team correctly guesses.
5) Play then passes to the other team, and back and forth until all the names have been drawn from the hat. If a team draws the last name from the hat and has some time left on the clock, take note.
6) Round two begins with the team that drew the last name continuing their turn, with however much time they have left on the clock. This round, when you're describing a person, you're limited to saying one word, although you may still gesture.
7) Once all the names are drawn, move to round 3 the same way you moved to round 2. In round 3, it's entirely charades: no speaking at all.
It's a tremendously fun game, great for parties.
Daniel
talinthas
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yesterday i played Puerto Rico. God i love that game =)
other mainstays for my crew include Cities and Knights of Catan (can't play the original anymore =), Fluxx, Risk 2210, Civilization (the new one), and carcassone. I think Puerto Rico's gonna take over though. It's just that good.
other mainstays for my crew include Cities and Knights of Catan (can't play the original anymore =), Fluxx, Risk 2210, Civilization (the new one), and carcassone. I think Puerto Rico's gonna take over though. It's just that good.
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