Vanity: Fun board games to play at Christmas

[Fierce Allegiance]

Twister with vaseline. Vaseling glows under balcklights.

[KoRn]

hehehe

[battlegearboat]

Noxzema Twister

[Jrabbit]

Cranium is fun....and an oldie but goodie....Facts In Five. Teens love Cranium. For card games....Phase 10.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Enough with the Twister already! I said games for families, not X-rated games. < :o

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

LOL!

[1rudeboy]

I suppose it depends on age, but my nieces re-inroduced me to Parcheesi . . . and I noticed that it's a pretty entertaining game.

[jdm]

I inadvertently lost my virginity during a marathon game of nekkid Twister.

So just be careful if you play that one.

[Tanniker Smith]

Apples to Apples is a group card game (the bigger the group, the more fun it can be). Each person gets five (or seven? I forget) cards, each with a noun (common or proper, person, place, thing) on it, along with a definition ("Mud: water, dirt. You do the math.") Players take turns be the judge, who turns over the top card from the adjective pile of cards. The other player have to quickly pick the card that best matches the adjective. Some picks are more subjective than others. The judge has total say in the matter and can use whatever criteria he/she wants (best match, silliest answer, etc.). Sometimes you won't have a match, so you'll dump a card.

Winner gets that card, everyone refills, and the next player is the judge. First person to win the required number is the winner. (The more people playing, the lower the goal.)

FLUXX is a card game with only one rule: Every turn you pick up a card and you play a card. That's the only rule. Except that some of the cards you play will change the rules. What's the goal of the game? Well, there is none. Not until someone plays a Goal card telling people how to win. You then have to fulfill the Goal to win.... unless someone changes the Goal card before you can . . .

[Fierce Allegiance]

LOL. Mazola twister. less smelly.

[teenyelliott]

Yup. It is like 10,000 Pyramid.

[USMCWife6869]

Life.

Monopoly, but the NFL version in my house, LOL.

Scene It.

[Diago]

bump

[proudpapa]

Settlers of Cataan.

[MaxMax]

Aggravation.

Great holiday game.

[Theresawithanh]

Outburst is fun. It's a board game where you move your marker based on being the first to shout out the correct answer to a question read from a card and the number rolled on a single die. You can get some incredibly hilarious answers to the questions, and sometimes you are laughing too hard to shout out the correct answer. You can also challenge another player when you land on their spot on the board.

[Tanniker Smith]

You know, the Monopoly people hit on a brainstorm when they started licensing the game like they did. Now, most people (or families) I know have 2 or even 3 versions of the same game. Here's the funny part: NONE OF THEM ever play it. It's such a horrible game. In fact, game insiders have said that such a game couln't be created today.

The best thing about Monopoly was when I discovered that the Star Trek; the Original Series game was a Limited Edition. I sold it the following year for about $50-60. And my NYC edition (which has a "World Trade Center" space on it) is still unopened.

[grellis]

Facts in Five is great fun. I found one in a junk shop, perfect condition, for $8.

Mille Bornes isn't technically a board game but we love to play it.

[fredhead]

Risk.

The perfect game for closet megalomaniacs.

Object, to take over the world.

(Playing hint: If you can get and hold North and South America early, you can probably win. There are only three ways in and out of the two continents - Iceland to Greenland, North Africa to Brazil, and Kamchatka (northeastern Asia) to Alaska. Attack out of Brazil, take Africa, then Europe from Greenland, then advance across Asia, finishing in Australia.)

[fredhead]

Another good one, especially with kids, is The Game Of Life. If you get the computer version, the graphics are hilarious!!