We are getting together with some friends tonight to play games and have some fun. It made me start thinking what everyone's games are or were. It doesn't have to be a board game. We have a lot of fun playing Farkle. ( dice game ) What's your fave game??
On New Year's Eve we played Chauvinist Pigs. It's a great game when you have guys and girls. You have "men's" questions (tools, guns, sports, etc.) and "women's" questions (sewing, cooking, fashion) and then you earn chips for answering correctly. We also played Moment of Truth (like the TV show, but the questions are WAY more tame). It's a good game to get to know other people.
we played Chauvinist Pig one time, what does it mean when the girls could better answer the men questions????!!! We aren't a bunch of manly girls but we are not girly girls either. It was a lot of fun.
My favorite is Balderdash - you don't even need the actual game, just a dictionary, some pens, and paper! You need at least 4 people to play, but not too many, either, as it can be hard to keep all the definitions straight. Very fun!
Trivial Pursuit. I love getting a big group of people together and playing these with partner groups. But we haven't done that in a while. Right now, we're mainly into Candy Land.
We don't play games very often any more since the kids got older, but we do pull out the tried and true on occasion. Trivial Persuit (we have three editions), Monopoly (two editions), Sorry, and Battleship. We also enjoy our Seinfeld edition of Scene It. I am the only one that likes Scrabble, so I usually play on the computer.
Spoons (careful this game can get crazy - but oh so fun and I don't care for card games)
*you have one less spoon than people playing (put spoons in middle of table). Shuffle a deck of cards. Dealer passes out 4 cards to everyone. The object is to get 4 of a kind. Dealer picks a new card off the remaining deck (he can trade it or pass it on - you always only have 4 cards in your hand). Once you get 4 of a kind, you grab a spoon and everyone has to grab a spoon soon as one is taken. One person will be out each round.
I enjoy Scattergories, Phase Ten and Canasta (both are card games), Parchessi, and Aggravation. I also like Racko, Apples to Apples etc. I really do like group games.
I like playing this game. It's easy and it can be fun. I didn't read through all of the website's post - maybe it's in the variations section - but we also have a person who plays cupid, a person who plays the witch, and two people who play the lovers. It's cool game.
We had a game night for NYE and one family brought Ticket to Ride which I've never played before and now I want to buy it.
And, another family introduced us to Through the Desert which is also quite fun.
We own and like:
Sorry
A-Maze-ing Labyrinth
Backgammon
Parcheesi (I probably misspelled it)
Mancala
Yahtzee
Uno
Set
Herd Your Horse
Take Off
Narnia (Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe)
Journeys of Paul
Scrabble (I like playing "Speed Scrabble" aka "Take Two")
Boggle (the 5 X 5 "Master" grid is much more fun)
Upwords
Othello
Double Trouble (more fun than Trouble, which I also like)
Mexican Train Dominos
Pictionary
Hugger Mugger
Everyone draws three cards (the phrase and noun ones). You remember your three but put them in a big stack with everyone else's.
Then you sit in a circle with teams alternating (ABABAB, etc.) First person up takes the stack and attempts to get his/her team members to say the word or phrase by using "Taboo" style methods. (describe or give examples but don't say any form of the words on the card)
Each person has 30 seconds to get as many cards as possible. When the time is up, you keep the cards you got and pass the stack to the next team. They do the same thing. You go around the circle until you run out of cards.
Count up cards for each team. One point per card.
Then you start a new round where you use the same cards reshuffled and you get your team to guess via charades.
Then a new round where you use the same reshuffled cards and get your team to guess by saying ONE word and one word only. So you're going to be relying heavily on their memory of what has been said/acted previously.
It's always a hit when we play it and provokes major laughter.
What a cool idea!! I think that sounds like more fun than the regular way you play the game!!!
I just played a game very similar to that! Instead of using the Apples to Apples cards everyone wrote down 5 names, put them in a bowl, then played sort of like you described. First was "Taboo" style guessing, then one word guessing, then charades only. We used a timer...each player got about 30 seconds to get as many cards as possible.
It was so much fun!!!
Aside from this game, my faves are Catch Phrase, pictionary, Rummikub, and Tripoley.
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