Introduced the houseguest to Rock Band today. Another toaster for me!

Usual Saturday gaming didn't happen due to convergence of non-geek houseguest, househunting, and conjunctivitis. Which is a shame, because we need to finish this modern-day Cthulhu-ish thing we are playing. The DM has a habit of setting Ravenloft (the original adventure) in all sorts of random settings, so I'd recently played Ravenloft as US Army during WWII.

I was sure this game was that game, starting as it did with US National Guard heading into the mountains of Kurdistan, under the command of a new Lt. with secret orders (there are always secret orders). But now I'm thinking it's some sort of ancient-Ur-Sumerian thing.

It was supposed to take 4 hours to play, so we assumed it would take us 8, but it's looking more like 15 will be the total.

Dudes. The hub is babbling at me about Wasteland again, so i signed him up and told him we have a game thread now. Also, phone posting sucks.

Does anyone like backgammon?

I like it, but I'm not good at it. Fortunately, unlike with card games, I don't care when I lose.

Favorite card games - so many. Love pinochle, clubs, hearts, spades. I know I liked euchre a lot when I learned it a decade ago, but I haven't played since, so I can't remember it anymore. Pinochle is the game we used to play marathon-style back in my twenties/early thirties.

My parents and their friends were huge bridge players, so I've dabbled, but I haven't learned bidding well at all. I should find some local bridge people and learn, though. Cards. How I love cards.

See, for some reason I hate card games. I'm not bad at them (I may be unbeaten at Canasta, in fact), but they leave me cold.

I blame bridge. I spent a lot of my pre-school days at my grandmother's, and she had a bridge group. Which meant I was banned from interacting with people and had to find ways to entertain myself; not easy in a Quaker house. Even now the idea of bridge brings back the smell of old people.

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I don't like sandwiches either, go figure.

Huh, didn't the Earl of Sandwich invent the thing so he could eat and play cards? Maybe I've got some sort of past life issue here.

didn't the Earl of Sandwich invent the thing

yes! It's the one thing sandwiches and sushi have in common.

Except that sushi was invented so the dude could keep rolling craps (or, okay, Japanese equivalent thereof) rather than cards -- between that and the sushi, it seems just infinitely cooler somehow.

well I don't remember the sushi guy's name but Earl of Sandwich does sound unbearably stuffy.

card, board, and strategy games are big over here.

holiday monopoly at his family's place is legend - one uncle's prospective girlfriend ran from the table yelling "you are all cheating!" never to be seen again. Players would rather risk kidney failure than take a bathroom break.

same w/my sister and me wrt spades. and hearts.

do not ask DH to play bridge unless you can also be his partner. And then see if you can play for $. He is Raq, but with the added bonus of being made to sit and play at the table.

scrabble. last week, DH opened scrabble round 3,000 with "death" and closed with a 4x on "jerk".

billytea, Acey-Deucy is played the way you were saying. It starts with all the pips off the board. If you roll and one and a two (acey-deucy) you get your choice of doubles and get to roll again.

I used to be a pinochle fiend. I learned how to play when I was stationed in Yuma and then had a regular foursome that played every night on Diego Garcia. I haven't had a regular group to play with for some time, but the Hoyle PC games has a fairly decent version that I just realized I don't have on this computer. Guess I'm going to have to go out and buy it. I also play spades, hearts, euchre and used to play canasta, but haven't in such a long time I don't know if I remember. My grandparents were huge rummy players and no matter how old I got, my grandmother always beat my pants off in that game. She should have played poker, because she had the face for it.

Plugh!

Or, hi! I'm amych's husband, and now a lurker in the gamer thread.