We've played life--it's ok. But it can take a long time, there's not a whole lot of strategy, and there's really not a lot of player/player interaction. I think that's why in the 80s games like pictionary really took off--the whole thing is based on player/player interaction.

But all this is pretty nostalgic for me. I just remember long summer evenings on our porch with my mom and I playing games--Scrabble and Yahtzee mostly. Lots of 500 Rummy as well.

I do sort of think AC takes some of the fun out of summer, because it encourages everyone to sit indoors and watch TV. Meanwhile, with all the cable shows, you actually might have something to watch that's not a re-run of Three's Company.

TenuredVulture wrote:We've played life--it's ok. But it can take a long time, there's not a whole lot of strategy, and there's really not a lot of player/player interaction. I think that's why in the 80s games like pictionary really took off--the whole thing is based on player/player interaction.

But all this is pretty nostalgic for me. I just remember long summer evenings on our porch with my mom and I playing games--Scrabble and Yahtzee mostly. Lots of 500 Rummy as well.

I do sort of think AC takes some of the fun out of summer, because it encourages everyone to sit indoors and watch TV. Meanwhile, with all the cable shows, you actually might have something to watch that's not a re-run of Three's Company.

If you're down with hooking your laptop up to your TV, or have a current gen console, The makers of You Don't Know Jack have made a pretty good party game called The Jackbox Party Pack. All the games are played from smart phones, tablets or web browsers. There's a handful of fun games there including You Don't Know Jack, but the real standouts are Drawful and Fibbage. Drawful is basically a pictionary game where everyone writes an answer and then everyone chooses from among the real and made up answers for points. Fibbage uses the same mechanic, sans drawing, but you're making up answers to fill in the blank trivia questions.

My daughter is too young/impatient for board games so we can't play when she's awake yet or she will demand to play and then ruin everything. My son loves playing them though, so after the little one goes to bed, my wife, son and I will play monopoly, life or uno, checkers, connect 4. He wants to play cards so I think I'm going to try playing war with him tonight.

rummy is an easy thing for kids to pick up. i'd suggest that, too. i used to love that and we still bust that out at holidays

i was a fan of the card game spit but you need to play a little slower if you are playing with your kid.

pacino wrote:i was a fan of the card game spit but you need to play a little slower if you are playing with your kid.

I used to be sooo good at that game.

played innumerable card games with one of my first serious honeys and her mom, which is amazing because I am unable to restrain myself from "improving"/subverting/"undermining"/re-imagining/ practically any card game/board game/group game in which I participate (the anarchy gene, I can't turn it off)

Monopoly has of course provided me with a fertile environment for converting scores of innocent games players to bolshevism

I had college friends who were dangerously into the avalon hill military games long ago.

I have regular game nights where I play: Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Avalon, Wits and Wagers.

I also play way too much Uno/GoFish with my 3 year old kid. Rummy is probably next.

Used to play poker and monopoly, but other people gradually lost interest in those games.

Werthless wrote:I have regular game nights where I play: Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Avalon, Wits and Wagers.

I also play way too much Uno/GoFish with my 3 year old kid. Rummy is probably next.

Used to play poker and monopoly, but other people gradually lost interest in those games.

Have you played Small World?

Napalm wrote:Risk.. i used to play super long sessions of it only as far back as 2 years ago. It would take place over 3 weeks, 4-5 nights with a 2-3 hr session each. It was disgusting fun

I haven't played Risk since a 20 hour game in January 2003. I think a few people still remember how I broke an alliance and screwed someone over. That guy certainly still remembers.

Werthless wrote:

Napalm wrote:Risk.. i used to play super long sessions of it only as far back as 2 years ago. It would take place over 3 weeks, 4-5 nights with a 2-3 hr session each. It was disgusting fun

I haven't played Risk since a 20 hour game in January 2003. I think a few people still remember how I broke an alliance and screwed someone over. That guy certainly still remembers.

it's always gonna get heated when you're that deep in. alliances are always broken. goddamn you just reminded me how much i miss the final backstabbing. it changes the game forever

I broke the alliance probably 1 or 2 turns early, everyone felt bad for the guy, and ganged up on me as punishment. I did not win.

Werthless wrote:

Napalm wrote:Risk.. i used to play super long sessions of it only as far back as 2 years ago. It would take place over 3 weeks, 4-5 nights with a 2-3 hr session each. It was disgusting fun

I haven't played Risk since a 20 hour game in January 2003. I think a few people still remember how I broke an alliance and screwed someone over. That guy certainly still remembers.

and that turned him into a conservative where's he's remained ever since

whats your fav. power move/strong hold? middle east/africa border is always a very violent place, troops accumulate, and you have the pressure of europe to the north. place is a volatile warzone like irl. the NA/SA border is a goddamn volcano always waiting to erupt. Controlling NA is fun, and stationing large armies in Greenland/Alaska to wreck havoc at any given moment. Feel like my favorite power move is harnessing power down under in Australia until you're ready to move your dynasty up the Asian coast and blast into Alaska.

bsg game night guys

In college, we once thought it was a good idea to play Risk where you had to take a drink every time you lost a country. This got out of hand very quickly.

Napalm wrote:whats your fav. power move/strong hold? middle east/africa border is always a very violent place, troops accumulate, and you have the pressure of europe to the north. place is a volatile warzone like irl. the NA/SA border is a goddamn volcano always waiting to erupt. Controlling NA is fun, and stationing large armies in Greenland/Alaska to wreck havoc at any given moment. Feel like my favorite power move is harnessing power down under in Australia until you're ready to move your dynasty up the Asian coast and blast into Alaska.

bsg game night guys

we have diplomacy in the house and never played it. needs 7 people.

Bucky wrote: and that turned him into a conservative where's he's remained ever since

libertarians play such games to harden their wills, so they'll one day be able to toss bagsful of kittens into raging rivers with nary a blinked eye

friend werthless's rueful memories of games long since played clearly indicate that his loins are not yet sufficiently girt

TenuredVulture wrote:I think my family should spend the occasional evening this summer playing Yahtzee. Cocktails, Louis Armstrong, Yahtzee--sounds really nice.

We did a game night the last time I was visiting family. Yahtzee with 40+ yr old grown-ass men doing taunting dances and such. It was awesome!

TenuredVulture wrote:Lots of 500 Rummy as well.

Around Christmastime my dad used to get a gallon of homemade Italian wine from a friend. About 8-9 years ago, the game night consisted of a game of 500 Rummy and my one brother getting so drunk on said wine he urinated off the front porch.

On an all hands call and the facilitator said what's that saying "every day I'm hustling" to which I responded "look at you Jay dropping a little Rick Ross on us on a Friday afternoon" and no one had any idea who he was. Sheesh.

i still play a card game called miles bournes where you are a car and you need to travel 700 or 1000 miles in order to win. it's fun, you can throw hazards on each other like accidents or put someone out of gas and then they need the card to fix it so they can go again. pretty simple game to learn, too.