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Vanity: Fun board games to play at Christmas

Posted on 12/17/2006 5:03:56 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Looking for fun board games (or other) to play with the family this year. What does your family enjoy?


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1 posted on 12/17/2006 5:03:57 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Apples to Apples was quite popular two years ago. There are many editions, including a kids edition.


2 posted on 12/17/2006 5:04:33 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

upwords is a great game


3 posted on 12/17/2006 5:05:00 PM PST by word_warrior_bob
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To: Tanniker Smith

Another fun card game is Fluxx. It's a game where the rules are constantly changing. You have to use that to your advantage.


4 posted on 12/17/2006 5:05:44 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Balderdash

Pictionary

Taboo

Risk

5 posted on 12/17/2006 5:05:57 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

saving. Big family Christmas coming up.


6 posted on 12/17/2006 5:06:09 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Tanniker Smith

Scrabble!


7 posted on 12/17/2006 5:06:36 PM PST by Big Giant Head (I should change my tagline to "Big Giant Pancake on my Head")
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Give a synopsis, not just titles. What's the object of the game? Thanks. < :)


8 posted on 12/17/2006 5:06:55 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Send in the bombers!)
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OPTION ... an ingenious twist to scrabble ... one word can flip and flop a number of ways .... and

though not a board game ... I just discovered 20Q in WalMart ... an electronic hockey puck thing, based on the old, boring 20 questions but this is veritably haunted!

9 posted on 12/17/2006 5:09:07 PM PST by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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Thanks!


10 posted on 12/17/2006 5:10:55 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Sequence
11 posted on 12/17/2006 5:11:21 PM PST by TankerKC (When I think about me, I touch myself.)
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I've never heard of that game. Is it fun?


12 posted on 12/17/2006 5:20:28 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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Spoons

HOW TO PLAY:

Should be played with 8 or more players using 2 decks of cards shuffled together (remove the jokers)


1. The object is to collect four cards of one kind (four twos, four kings and so on) and not to be the person left without a spoon. To begin, place the spoons (one fewer than the number of players) in the center of the table within grabbing reach of all players. Each player is dealt four cards. The dealer keeps the deck.

2. The dealer picks a card from the deck and then discards one card from his hand, sliding it facedown to the player to his left. That player takes it, then picks one card from his hand and passes it to his left.

3. Each player in turn does the same, as quickly as possible. Each person should have four cards in his hand at all times. The player to the right of the dealer places discarded cards in a pile to his left to be used by the dealer when the original deck is used up.

4. Play continues until one player has four of a kind, at which time he takes a spoon from the pile. He may steal the spoon surreptitiously, continuing to pass cards until someone else notices. Or he may grab his spoon, creating a mad rush for spoons at the table.

5. The player left without a spoon has lost the round. If you like to keep score, that player is given an S. As players spell S-P-O-O-N-S, they are out. The player left at the end is the winner.
 

 

13 posted on 12/17/2006 5:24:17 PM PST by txroadkill (This year's Time Magazine 'Person of the year'.)
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What's a board game? /s


14 posted on 12/17/2006 5:26:25 PM PST by KoRn
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Very. You can have kids and adults playing. I don't play board games, but I love Sequence.
15 posted on 12/17/2006 5:26:29 PM PST by TankerKC (When I think about me, I touch myself.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

Strip Twister. Put a shot glass on each circle.


16 posted on 12/17/2006 5:27:52 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: teenyelliott

Taboo is quite a fun game.


17 posted on 12/17/2006 5:28:04 PM PST by psjones (u)
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To: txroadkill

That is truly weird! < :)


18 posted on 12/17/2006 5:28:12 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: KoRn
What's a board game? /s

It's a game you play to keep from getting bored. < ;)

19 posted on 12/17/2006 5:30:49 PM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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I like to play skip-bo with my kids. It's a card game like uno.


20 posted on 12/17/2006 5:31:40 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Iron my shirts, woman!)
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