― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
(The game is actually way more interesting than the awful "Vee do not need professional translators" description makes it sound.)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
I love Scrabble. *sigh*
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Richard Jones (scarne), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Balderdash is good, because it rewards creativity, and if you know your competitors well, you can tailor your answers to snag their votes. It can be a quite complicated game if you play it as such.
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Celeste (Celeste), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― C J (C J), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
not as much as me.
of course, there is CIVILIZATION THE BOARD GAME. but civ being civ, you'd all still be there playing next xmas. Civ is as good as scrabble even.
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yeah, what's with you people? Use the real word, dammit!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.hasbropreschool.com/common/images/products/4533_imageMain400.jpg
― Aaron W, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
i have the american one, yeah
Do you also play online? (well, literati??)
yes, i regularaly get obliterated on www.playsite.com
Do you feel full of anger at the world if you lose?
yes, and i always lose, that is why i am such a bitter man.
have you read 'word freak' by stefan fatsis? that's an uberscrabblegeek book.
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lol p xx, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron W, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
my family is not collectively dim, but we never could never get this game to work...
my mum really likes those memory games where you turn over two cards and have to find pairs of images: we had a really nice one w.about 200 cards with a weirdly random choice of images, which by weird coincidence included a picture-pair from a version of aesop's fables we also owned, and another from some completely unrelated book
(this game has a name — or several — but i don't recall it) (!)
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alix (alix), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
dont get me started. there are 92 acceptable 2 letter words in US scrabble, and yes, some of them are spellings of letters. they're all in the OSPD, so they all count. obv, house rules may rule otherwise, which is when the real scrabble players start getting pissy.
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
I knew this was Anna before reading further!
Have you considered a WWF style wrestling tournament, Tom?
Or, more realistically only if your family has loads and loads of books, Ex Libris (except don't buy it as it is a total waste of money).
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
or Axis & Allies
― kingfish crab trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 4 December 2005 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Sunday, 4 December 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 4 December 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/35/70162408_f3e7250439.jpg http://static.flickr.com/18/70162405_08db01511f.jpg
― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 4 December 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link