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There's a man who comes to this library several evenings a week to give chess lessons to children. I've noticed all his students are foreign, mainly from India, about equally split between boys and girls. Most are between ages 8 & 14.
There's a man who comes to this library several evenings a week to give chess lessons to children. I've noticed all his students are foreign, mainly from India, about equally split between boys and girls. Most are between ages 8 & 14.
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That the students would be from other countries, unfortunately. I've casually asked around among the teenagers with whom I come into contact, and I'm amazed how many have never held a pack of cards or played any games. The cheapest, most flexible game concept the world's ever known, and they have no clue. It's really sad to me.
That the students would be from other countries, unfortunately. I've casually asked around among the teenagers with whom I come into contact, and I'm amazed how many have never held a pack of cards or played any games. The cheapest, most flexible game concept the world's ever known, and they have no clue. It's really sad to me.
We used to play cards on Saturday nights when daddy was home. He liked Rummy, Tonk, and Rook. Later on we liked Uno.
Have played many games of Sorry, Touring, and Backgammon growing up.
At our house, dominoes is the game of choice these days, chicken scratch and Mexican. Lots of good times!!
At our house, dominoes is the game of choice these days, chicken scratch and Mexican. Lots of good times!!
Anyone for Monotony?
I love playing board games. A favorite that a friend and I like to play is called Park and Shop. You draw cards of items you have to buy, then you have to park your car in a garage, go to the various shops to buy the items on your cards, make your way back to your car, and get back home. My kind of game!
twintubdexter
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I was trying to find one that challenged my intelligence
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">...but I guess Mr. Potato Head doesn't count as a board game, not even the one from my childhood that used a real potato.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">...but I guess Mr. Potato Head doesn't count as a board game, not even the one from my childhood that used a real potato.</span>
Washabear, I had forgotten about Park and Shop, I loved it.
cornutt
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We had several home versions of TV game shows. Concentration and Password were popular ones. In fact, I've still got a Password set somewhere.
Some oddball ones:
King of the Hill was a child's game. It came with a board shaped something like a volcano. There was a path that wound around it, with indentations for the playing pieces, which were marbles. Some of the spaces were holes; if you landed one one, your marble dropped into the hole and re-emerged somewhere further down. The idea was to get to the top and drop your marble into a crown-shaped thing. One thing I recall was that instead of a spinner to determine how many spaces to move, it came with a small tip table.
Dealer's Choice was a sort of card game, around the theme of used cars. You could buy and sell cars with other players, inflict them with various sorts of calamities (crashes, theft, fire, etc.), and buy insurance. I don't recall what the object of the game was.
Tripoly was sort of a cross between spades and poker. It came with a vinyl mat marked with various sorts of hands (such as a flush, a straight, etc.). You dealt a certain number of cards, and anyone who had a certain type of hand got to claim the pot for that, from off the mat. Otherwise, it carried over to the next round.
Oh Hell is a simplified version of bridge. You deal cards, and then each player bids how many tricks you think you can win with those cards. You can bid any number including zero. The tricks are then played. If you win the exact number of tricks you bid, you get 10 points plus your bid, unless you bid zero, in which case you get 5 points plus the total number of tricks in the hand. The first hand is played with each player being dealt one card, the second with two cards, and so on until the last hand, which uses the entire deck. My mom still has a set of the cards, and we play whenever we go visit her.
I also recall having a three-dimensional Aggrevation game. There were two levels, and pieces could jump from one level to the other at certain points. The top level also rotated.
Some oddball ones:
King of the Hill was a child's game. It came with a board shaped something like a volcano. There was a path that wound around it, with indentations for the playing pieces, which were marbles. Some of the spaces were holes; if you landed one one, your marble dropped into the hole and re-emerged somewhere further down. The idea was to get to the top and drop your marble into a crown-shaped thing. One thing I recall was that instead of a spinner to determine how many spaces to move, it came with a small tip table.
Dealer's Choice was a sort of card game, around the theme of used cars. You could buy and sell cars with other players, inflict them with various sorts of calamities (crashes, theft, fire, etc.), and buy insurance. I don't recall what the object of the game was.
Tripoly was sort of a cross between spades and poker. It came with a vinyl mat marked with various sorts of hands (such as a flush, a straight, etc.). You dealt a certain number of cards, and anyone who had a certain type of hand got to claim the pot for that, from off the mat. Otherwise, it carried over to the next round.
Oh Hell is a simplified version of bridge. You deal cards, and then each player bids how many tricks you think you can win with those cards. You can bid any number including zero. The tricks are then played. If you win the exact number of tricks you bid, you get 10 points plus your bid, unless you bid zero, in which case you get 5 points plus the total number of tricks in the hand. The first hand is played with each player being dealt one card, the second with two cards, and so on until the last hand, which uses the entire deck. My mom still has a set of the cards, and we play whenever we go visit her.
I also recall having a three-dimensional Aggrevation game. There were two levels, and pieces could jump from one level to the other at certain points. The top level also rotated.
lordkenmore
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Anyone for Monotony?
An interesting video on why one should NEVER play Monopoly. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say "never"...but the video makes some good points.
An interesting video on why one should NEVER play Monopoly. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say "never"...but the video makes some good points.
Someone was anxious at ca$hing in the Hatchimals trend, to make a board game out of something that after the only fun of it is when (sometimes IF) it hatches, just to become an ordinary stuffed animal...
So, unlike that, this is something to endlessly play, but maybe, me, being several decades older than my daughter, just couldn't see any fun in this...
I had found the directions misleading & after me being too withdrawn to figure out how to play this, she accordingly lost all interest, as well... (So, BORED game is what you call this!)
Doesn't help that we lost the die, (which we found) and after the photo was taken, I found a couple more cards, and I believe we are now short a token...
-- Dave
So, unlike that, this is something to endlessly play, but maybe, me, being several decades older than my daughter, just couldn't see any fun in this...
I had found the directions misleading & after me being too withdrawn to figure out how to play this, she accordingly lost all interest, as well... (So, BORED game is what you call this!)
Doesn't help that we lost the die, (which we found) and after the photo was taken, I found a couple more cards, and I believe we are now short a token...
-- Dave
lordkenmore
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Mr. Potato Head
The Mr. Potato Head concept has met the digital age in KTuberling. Although I'm guessing most people here won't be able to run it, since KDE software is designed for "Unix family" computer operating systems. I've run it with Linux.
Still, some might enjoy seeing this page about it. Quote:
KTuberling is a game intended for small children. Of course, it may be suitable for adults who have remained young at heart.
It is a "potato editor". That means that you can drag and drop eyes, mouths, mustache, and other parts of face and goodies onto a potato-like guy. Similarly, you have other playgrounds with different themes.
The Mr. Potato Head concept has met the digital age in KTuberling. Although I'm guessing most people here won't be able to run it, since KDE software is designed for "Unix family" computer operating systems. I've run it with Linux.
Still, some might enjoy seeing this page about it. Quote:
KTuberling is a game intended for small children. Of course, it may be suitable for adults who have remained young at heart.
It is a "potato editor". That means that you can drag and drop eyes, mouths, mustache, and other parts of face and goodies onto a potato-like guy. Similarly, you have other playgrounds with different themes.
I'd wrongly spoken too soon--my daughter has a friend here, who's sleeping over this whole weekend, so before & after a trip to the mall, the Hatchimals game has been going non-stop:
Regarding Monopoly: Wasn't it invented in a sort of Rockefeller-ian era? I don't believe there needs to be any criticism on the "game of chance nature" much as I can see the young man's point in his philosophy, after watching that video... A good perspective, but it can't be much of a game, if it isn't at least PLAYFULLY trading on Property Trading and turning what is only INCIDENTALLY under control or beyond control into something I always although LONG a board game that I'd thought was "soon much fun!"...
-- Dave
Regarding Monopoly: Wasn't it invented in a sort of Rockefeller-ian era? I don't believe there needs to be any criticism on the "game of chance nature" much as I can see the young man's point in his philosophy, after watching that video... A good perspective, but it can't be much of a game, if it isn't at least PLAYFULLY trading on Property Trading and turning what is only INCIDENTALLY under control or beyond control into something I always although LONG a board game that I'd thought was "soon much fun!"...
-- Dave
