A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.
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.
I think you are, in fact, a poster in the gamer thread.
Welcome, knave!
welcome knave.
Oh, to the Backgammon/Facebook folks. There is a facebook app for backgammon! Anyone game?
Damn. I'm going to have to join Facebook, aren't I?
