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Christmas games to date.
Dec. 30th, 2005 10:37 amTrivial Pursuit
This is the new "20 years" edition, which means that I was alive for all of the events that it talks about, and can actually answer questions. I can't remember who won this, because no-one really wanted to play and I was getting arsey with everyone, because the boys were bending the cards and leaning on the board and bending it a little and fiddling with the pieces and my mum was reading instead of paying attention and it sucked. But it's nice and shiny, and the questions are good, so it should be great the next time I play it. Although instead of two long boxes of questions, you get three small packs that are les than one box. So having to be careful with the questions, and reuse the cards, but it's all good.
Snatch
I won this. Decisively. We didn't count up scoring because they were getting cross with me. I am hoping that someone will play it with me on New Year's Eve when various relatives arrive. Otherwise it's just an expensive maraca. It's the game where you have lettered tiles face down in the middle, and turn over one at a time. When you see a word from the letters, you say it, and you take the word. You can then add to it, or other people's words, to make new ones. Making them absolutely incensed. I was once playing with my uncle and he took my "elbowing" to make "bellowing". You can only applaud such a play. I still won though. I love this game. My mum dislikes it because it involves shouting out of turn. My sister dislikes it because she can't see words. It is delightful.
Srabble
I came second. I would like to point out that had I been allowed to play "whiz", which I think you'll find is a completely valid spelling, the outcome could have been very different. I did have modally though. I was also very helpful, not because I'm particularly kind, but because I can't bear to see it played badly. Put the s at the end of the word that will get you another word over a double pointer. Not at the beginning of a very short word. Bah.
Extreme Uno
I can never decide if I like this or not. The new cards seem like cheating (swapping your hand with someone, putting all of one colour down) somehow, but the shooting out of cards from the thingy is rather good. Unless it happens to me when I have but one card left.
Pairs
My sister claims to be the pairs (aka memory) champion of the known universe. I beat her several times. It's not really fair if we play with anyone else, because the set we have is from when we were toddlers, and there are various chwed corners, bent cards and faded backs that signal where various pieces are. We do tell people when we start game, but we've had a decade or two to remember them, and a minute doesn't seem to help much.
Lord of the Rings Risk
This was ace! I have only ever played actual Risk once before, where my friend and I were coerced into it by our then boyfriends, who were Sulkers (note the capital) of the most iniquitous kind. So my friend and I couldn't really do anything like attack their territories for fear of having to spend a week cossetting damaged egos. Then we were shouted at for not playing the game properly. Anyway, LOTR Risk is very cool anyway because you control armies of darkness. Or goodies, but Armies Of Darkness, yay. Plus, you can play it so that it's a game with a finite life (as opposed to FOREVER) because at the end of every go the Fellowship move the ring through another territory. I lost this game, quite substantially. However! This was because on my go it was possible that the Fellowship would leave the dead marshes (should I throw at least a three) and so I needed to spread myself thin so that I could have the most points. I controlled an entire region, more territories than anyone else and several strongholds. So I pushed into my dad's region to make sure that he didn't get points for that and pushed downwards through Mirkwood. Then I was poised to roll the dice and rule the world, and my sister's boyfriend played a card that meant I had to get at least a 4 to end the game. I didn't, and all my territories were left woefuly undefended and my empire was devastated by the bastard elven archers. There is probably a life lesson in there, but there would have been a shinier one had I rolled a six.
I have been promised more games on NYE. We shall see. Sadly no Escape, but one can't have everything.
This is the new "20 years" edition, which means that I was alive for all of the events that it talks about, and can actually answer questions. I can't remember who won this, because no-one really wanted to play and I was getting arsey with everyone, because the boys were bending the cards and leaning on the board and bending it a little and fiddling with the pieces and my mum was reading instead of paying attention and it sucked. But it's nice and shiny, and the questions are good, so it should be great the next time I play it. Although instead of two long boxes of questions, you get three small packs that are les than one box. So having to be careful with the questions, and reuse the cards, but it's all good.
Snatch
I won this. Decisively. We didn't count up scoring because they were getting cross with me. I am hoping that someone will play it with me on New Year's Eve when various relatives arrive. Otherwise it's just an expensive maraca. It's the game where you have lettered tiles face down in the middle, and turn over one at a time. When you see a word from the letters, you say it, and you take the word. You can then add to it, or other people's words, to make new ones. Making them absolutely incensed. I was once playing with my uncle and he took my "elbowing" to make "bellowing". You can only applaud such a play. I still won though. I love this game. My mum dislikes it because it involves shouting out of turn. My sister dislikes it because she can't see words. It is delightful.
Srabble
I came second. I would like to point out that had I been allowed to play "whiz", which I think you'll find is a completely valid spelling, the outcome could have been very different. I did have modally though. I was also very helpful, not because I'm particularly kind, but because I can't bear to see it played badly. Put the s at the end of the word that will get you another word over a double pointer. Not at the beginning of a very short word. Bah.
Extreme Uno
I can never decide if I like this or not. The new cards seem like cheating (swapping your hand with someone, putting all of one colour down) somehow, but the shooting out of cards from the thingy is rather good. Unless it happens to me when I have but one card left.
Pairs
My sister claims to be the pairs (aka memory) champion of the known universe. I beat her several times. It's not really fair if we play with anyone else, because the set we have is from when we were toddlers, and there are various chwed corners, bent cards and faded backs that signal where various pieces are. We do tell people when we start game, but we've had a decade or two to remember them, and a minute doesn't seem to help much.
Lord of the Rings Risk
This was ace! I have only ever played actual Risk once before, where my friend and I were coerced into it by our then boyfriends, who were Sulkers (note the capital) of the most iniquitous kind. So my friend and I couldn't really do anything like attack their territories for fear of having to spend a week cossetting damaged egos. Then we were shouted at for not playing the game properly. Anyway, LOTR Risk is very cool anyway because you control armies of darkness. Or goodies, but Armies Of Darkness, yay. Plus, you can play it so that it's a game with a finite life (as opposed to FOREVER) because at the end of every go the Fellowship move the ring through another territory. I lost this game, quite substantially. However! This was because on my go it was possible that the Fellowship would leave the dead marshes (should I throw at least a three) and so I needed to spread myself thin so that I could have the most points. I controlled an entire region, more territories than anyone else and several strongholds. So I pushed into my dad's region to make sure that he didn't get points for that and pushed downwards through Mirkwood. Then I was poised to roll the dice and rule the world, and my sister's boyfriend played a card that meant I had to get at least a 4 to end the game. I didn't, and all my territories were left woefuly undefended and my empire was devastated by the bastard elven archers. There is probably a life lesson in there, but there would have been a shinier one had I rolled a six.
I have been promised more games on NYE. We shall see. Sadly no Escape, but one can't have everything.
