OK, here"s a nostalgia question: What childhood game did you enjoy the most?
Trade(monopoly)? In Monopoly, my strategy was to be the car.The car was one of the little metal game-board pieces; the other ones, as I recall, were the hat, the dog, the shoe, the guy on the horse and the iron. I never wanted to be the shoe, and I definitely did not want to be the iron. I wanted to be the car because I could make car noises by vibrating my lips -- brrrrmmmmm! -- and drive the car around on the floor to amuse myself while waiting my turn, which is mainly what you do in Monopoly, which I always considered to be one of the most boring activities on the planet.But I had friends who loved it; when we played, they became insane, money-grasping capitalist pigs. They"d crouch next to the game board, looking over the tops of their hotels with greed-crazed eyes, watching me throw the dice, waiting for the little car to come around the corner, motoring innocently along -- brrrrmmmmm! -- until it stopped on -- Hah! --Parel (which is like Boardwalk here), and they"d triumphantly announce that I owed them some huge amount of pretend money that they knew to the exact pretend cost of landing on Parel
without looking at the cards.
I"m not saying that all of these friends went on to become attorneys, but it was a healthy percentage.
I will say this about Monopoly: I was better at it than at chess. My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. ""Let"s get this over with!"" was their battle cry. If the rules had allowed it, my pieces would all have charged out onto the board simultaneously the instant the game started. Unfortunately, this was not legal, so they had to content themselves with charging out one at a time, pretty much at random, and immediately getting captured. Here"s what they sounded like:
PAWNS: Oh, no! They got the Knight!
KING: Darn it!
BISHOP: I"ll go next!
KING: Good luck!
PAWNS: Oh, no! They got the Bishop!
KING: Darn it!
QUEEN: I"ll go next!
KING: Good luck!
PAWNS: Oh, no! They got the Queen!
KING: Good! I mean, Darn it!
Because of the level of my chess game, I was able to even against a weak
opponent, such as my dog get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster. (am actually kiddin am pretty decent in chess i guess )
The one board game that I still like is Scrabble. I like it because, unlike most other board games, which basically are pointless time-consumers, in Scrabble you can do something mentally
stimulating and worthwhile: make naughty words. There is nothing quite like the sense of intellectual accomplishment that comes from spelling out, say, ""b-o-s-o-m,"" knowing that it will be sitting there on the board for hours, staring up at your opponents.
The problem with Scrabble is that it leads to arguments like this:
FIRST PLAYER: ... e, e, t. There!
SECOND PLAYER: ""gleet?"" What the hell is ``gleet""?
FIRST PLAYER: I have no idea, but if you can use ""pood,"" I can use ``gleet.""
The thing is, according to the Webster Heritage Dictionary, both "gleet" and "pood" really are words, as are "kloof,""fremitus" and "woomera." It turns out that, if you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word, which means you can put down any old
letters you want and claim it"s a legal move.
Of course, you have to be careful whom you"re playing with. The number of violent
Scrabble-related incidents is on the rise. I loved playing cards and the most fun game i ever played was BLUFF and am darn good at it. But my cousin Kishore will make us all look like a monkey in a titty bar, the thing about him is that he has this incredible poker face when he plays bluff and the game would go something like this
Kishore: 2 Aces
Me: one more
Others: pass
Kishore: 3 more
am like huh?
Kishore (poker face): 3 more
Me: pass
Kishore: 3 more
and i know hes lying so...
Me: Challenge!! and open the cards guess what he didnt bluff the last time and am like F**k
This repeats itself many a times with others taking turns saying F**k and Kishore sitting with his poker face... darn it i hate him ( j/k). I"m sure most ppl will say Ludo and other board games so lets hear it guys walk down the memory lane and tell me your favourites. If you say spin the bottle then i dont want to hear anything about your past :)
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