Christmas Ritual - URGENT HELP NEEDED!

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dictionary's a good one, too i.e. Balderdash but with a dictionary and pencil + paper. i think the memorization game you're talking about is called "concentration", mark

Anyway I think it's about time somebody gave it up for PARCHEESI! the UR-game of all board games!! It fits the ascetic yet slightly competitive mood of my Texas Christmases quite well....

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

In old children's books they are always playing HALMA!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.expat.or.id/images/congklakplaygirls2.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

So that's what Halma is. Ever since I heard it referred to in the radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide I had wondered...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

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― gygax!, Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

fur cue two

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

That's Mancala in the picture, right? What a great board!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

didn't norman phay once say he wz specifically forbidden from using "roxor" etc? or did i dream that?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

it calls it "congklak" on the site i found it, tom: the world's oldest board game, apparently

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

You fight bitterly before you even start over who gets to be Miss Scarlett

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

Advanced Squad Leader is fun for the whole family!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

a bump for Sorry!

or Axis & Allies

― kingfish crab trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

DOMINOES!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Sunday, 4 December 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Risk !

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 4 December 2005 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Facts in Five!

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Sunday, 4 December 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Articulate! Damn, it's fun.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 4 December 2005 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Dutch Blitz is the favorite of all the canny, mouthy, cheating women in my family. Poss substitute: any card game variation that involves discarding/passing cards to your neighbor as quickly as possible and hoping that she's too rushed to notice what's in her hand.

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

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