#Microblog Monday 220: Games!

by Mel

13 comments

1 KatherineA { 11.12.18 at 8:02 am }

I’m not a huge games person – it’s the combination of being pretty competitive, disliking waiting for my turn in some games, and really hating the random element of luck in games (probably explains a lot about my total intolerance of the unknown/unplanned during infertility treatments). But I recently discovered cooperative games such as “Forbidden Desert” where everyone works together and “winning” means that the group reaches the goal. That helps diminish some of the impatience and competitiveness and makes it a bit more enjoyable.

2 Lori Shandle-Fox { 11.12.18 at 9:37 am }

I love board games too. I have very warm memories of playing Scrabble with my mother. My sister and I played a lot of board games as kids but my mother did word games so Scrabble was the only board game. Now, my kids and I love to have “game day”. We put out a bunch of games in the loft and play all day. I just learned Sorry this year and we love it! xo

3 Parul Thakur { 11.12.18 at 10:07 am }

I enjoy board games but I don’t get to play as much. I love Monopoly, Mahjongg, and Scrabble. I also like playing on phone if that counts. 🙂 I did not know about the game Sorry. Will check it out too!

4 loribeth { 11.12.18 at 10:25 am }

All the traditional ones you mentioned, plus we’ve also played lots of Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and Game of Life (when we were growing up). Also, Mystery Date. 🙂 We didn’t like all the photos of the guys in the game, so we taped photos of David Cassidy & Bobby Sherman, etc., on top of them, lol.

We tend to play more cards than board games these days, though. (A rummy game that we’ve played forever, and canasta.) Although we do play a game called Sequence that is a combination board & card game.

5 Cristy { 11.12.18 at 3:24 pm }

That certainly sounds dark! But then again, given the era we live in, I’m very intrigued by how you play given that your opponents have the same goal (poor Dr. Lucky).

I loved Clue as a kid. I’ve been revisiting old games I used to play as Teddy and Maddy have reached an age where they can play some of these. Sorry was never a favorite, but I did love mancala, checkers, Yahtzee, Jenga, Trouble and many a card game. Grey and I use to play chess on Sundays at the local pub (something I dearly miss and would love to find a way to rectify).

6 chris { 11.12.18 at 3:32 pm }

Oh I love board games! And cards! I was playing cards by the time I was 2 or 3 and board games were always a staple when my grandparents visited. My husband isn’t much into games unless they’re video games, something in which I have ZERO interest. But, I love Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Life, Scrabble, Yahtzee… I’ll play them all! My bff and I are hoping that with the kids all elsewhere for Thanksgiving we may have a game day after dinner, we were just talking about it this weekend. (We always spend holidays together and with her kids either at their dad’s or working we thought it might be fun to play). Husband will just have to find something else to do or come pick me up later. LOL Game day definitely appeals to me and the nostalgia of holidays gone by…..

7 Mali { 11.12.18 at 4:27 pm }

I quite enjoy games when I play them (rarely) but don’t think about it a lot. Probably would if I had kids. I’ve enjoyed Trivial Pursuit, and Pictionary to add to the list.

OMG at Loribeth’s comment though. I wish I’d thought of taping David Cassidy et al’s faces over the cards on Mystery Date.

Also, I’m cursing daylight saving (and your lack of it). I wrote my MM posts last night, and at midnight was on your site waiting for the list to come up. Nope, google informed me it was only 6 am your time. So I guess I’ll be the last on the list now! lol On the bright side, though, we’re two hours closer.

8 knotted fingers { 11.12.18 at 5:47 pm }

We love board games and card games. Uno, Bananagrams, Monopoly, Life. I think my favorite though isn’t really a board game but is a sit and play game. Don’t break the ice lol for some reason it’s just a lot of fun to me

9 Jess { 11.12.18 at 6:02 pm }

That does sound dark, but deliciously so. I like Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu as a board game, not my usual thing but Bryce bought it and it was fun and never the same each time you play. I also a sucker for any kind of Memory.

I had a weird game experience, where we visited neighbors with small children and played a published card game called Rat-a-Tat-Cat — which turned out to be pretty much the same thing as a card game called No Name that my best friend taught me and was passed down from her grandmother who learned it from another nurse in WWII. SO WEIRD! How does that happen?!?

10 Jenn { 11.12.18 at 6:43 pm }

Skip-bo, mille bornes, Othello, and backgammon are ones I grew up playing a lot with grown ups and still do sometimes. We have a ton of kid games and I agree that learning new games from a sheet can be annoying and challenging. And then trying to teach my kid while I’m still figuring it out…

11 Chandra Lynn { 11.12.18 at 7:28 pm }

Scrabble, Trouble, Monopoly, Life, Boggle…

12 Lori Lavender Luz { 11.13.18 at 8:17 pm }

This post and the comments are making me nostalgic!

13 Davidah { 11.13.18 at 11:11 pm }

We have really been enjoying the dice game Qwixx. Fast and easy to learn. Interesting strategies. Better than Yahtzee. I picked it up randomly at Target and we play it a ton.