Board games

[Pentegarn]

Speaking of Munchkin, my friend says he might be getting the Munchkin board game for x-mas, I saw a glimpse of it at the 2007 Origins convention (it was a Steven Jackson hosted sneak preview IIRC) and I liked what I saw so I can't wait for him to get it so we can learn to play it

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Every christmas eve I get together with my dads side of the family and we usually play a board game. We played catchphrase last night

My word was action figures so I said to my team: "Okay, so a girl will play will dolls. A boy will play with..."

and my Uncle Don yells out "A wuss!"

dammit

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by 10,000 Volt Ghost

Every christmas eve I get together with my dads side of the family and we usually play a board game. We played catchphrase last night

My word was action figures so I said to my team: "Okay, so a girl will play will dolls. A boy will play with..."

and my Uncle Don yells out "A wuss!"

dammit

[SLjimbolian]

Now this was one hell of a game.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Like Chinese Checkers?

[Zhukov]

I played my little brother at chess the other day. He slew me

[OxBlood]

Shogi is a nice change of pace if you like chess-like games.

[OxBlood]

Yeah, there´s the Broodwar-Expansion but since I haven´t played the main game even once yet, I´m not even thinking about that

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Played Scattergories last night. The letter was E and I think we were on card 9 which had FRUITS.

I couldn't come up with anything so I put EGGFRUIT, my girlfriend couldn't come up with anything either. No points for us.

My roommate had a big smile on his face because he put Elton John. Points for him.

[Pentegarn]

And that is why Scattergories is so freaking awesome.

One time we had 'bad habits' and the letter was K.

My brother put 'kicking nuns'

I laughed so hard I insisted he get points for that

[OxBlood]

Got my eyes on Thunderstone. Seems to be a variant of Dominion, only with dungeoncrawlin instead of townbuilding.

But, of course, it´s not available over here, at least not for a reasonable price...what the heck is up with that anyway? Senji is 40€, Thunderstone is 40€, I mean, it´s not freaking Starcraft in terms of box-content, so make me a better price, you Boardgame-people.

[lumpisan]

does anyone remember the goosebumps board games? the thing was 3d and i got it when i was 6 took my mom 8 hours to put together and was in a graveyard.... they had another one with a ferris wheel.... i seem to remember the game being really complicated but fun

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I kind of remember the goosebumps BG. It reminded me a bit of 1313 Dead End Drive.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Scattergories last night and it came up with Letter G and fictional characters...so I used Grisly Gus and got two points.
We need to play scattergories online sometime.
Letter W with languages....no one got any points but I at least tried with "Wah Wah Wee Wah"
Letter K with signs of affection. They wouldn't give me a point for "Konging"
Letter G for Crimes. I got points for Gary Busey.

[Zhukov]

You know I once got the word 'cunt' in boggle. I have a photo somewhere.

God damn it was about 8 years ago.



Also, I made up some great words in Scrabble. You just have to say it confidently and be playing against uneducated bonces. Bit me in the arse when I tried 'qualia' and nobody (not even spell check, it seems) believed me that it is a word.


Please tell me what 'Konging' is meant to entail.

[Pentegarn]

Originally Posted by 10,000 Volt Ghost

Scattergories last night and it came up with Letter G and fictional characters...so I used Grisly Gus and got two points.
We need to play scattergories online sometime.
Letter W with languages....no one got any points but I at least tried with "Wah Wah Wee Wah"
Letter K with signs of affection. They wouldn't give me a point for "Konging"
Letter G for Crimes. I got points for Gary Busey.

Grisly Gus is as real as it gets

We do need to play Scattergories online somehow

For languages 'W' you could either have went with whistling and sited the robot owl from Clash of the Titans who used whistling to communicate. or 'Dubya' and said he spoke some kind of strange foreign language with words like 'strategery' and 'governmentalate'

[Grislygus]

CHAHNESE CHECKERS


and yeah, scrabble rocks, along with putting money on cribbage

[Pentegarn]

^^^

See? Real.

[LordSappington]

My girlfriend got me hooked on Scrabble. It's a little frustratin online, though, because of all the cheap words people can use. My least favorite two are easily 'za' and 'qi'. Apparently, 'za' is short for 'pizza'. A guy got 33 points for some bullshit word like that, and I only got 11 for 'codeine'.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Scrabble online is kinda bullshit because you can use a dictionary/online searching. I mean....I wouldn't but I know stupid fucks would.

[LordSappington]

There's a mode you can play where you can put down 'quhawz' or any other bullshit you feel like, but the other person can call you on your words.

[Zhukov]

Za? Fuck off with your short for pizza bullshit. I would throw the board across the room for that one; pizza does not need shortening.

[executioneer]

abbreviations don't count in real scrabble, wtf

[Zhukov]

I read somewhere that a child prodigy (at scrabble, probably considered a lower tier prodigious act by other youngsters) got the most points possible in scrabble on the word 'conquistador' running down the top left-hand side.

I would find evidence to back this up but I am lazy.

[LordSappington]

I would punch that smug little shit back into the womb.