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?
Welcome, knave.
Never played backgammon. No clue how it works.
I've played a lot of Rummy 500. I've played Spades a few times, but it's so infrequently I need to be reminded how it works every time I play. I learned how to play Euchre 10-15 years ago, but couldn't tell you for the life of me how to play the game now.
Board games wise, we played lots of Sorry, Life, checkers and Monopoly as kids. My sister and I would play chess occaisionally, but I'd always win and she get angry and refuse to play me for six months at a time. In highschool and early college one of my best friends and I used to play Othello all the time and I got pretty good at it, though it's probably been a decade since I last played. We also played a lot of Talisman, Pirateer, Shogun/Samurai Swords and Minion Hunter.
As far as D&D 4th goes, I think it's going to be a fun and solid system. I actually got some friends together a few weeks ago to run through fan-written adventure that had been cobbled together from the information that's be released so far and it went pretty well. You definitely have a lot more to do at 1st level than in previous games, and your character feels less fragile.
That said, it feels like a different animal than previous versions of D&D. 3rd Ed, and 3.5, while changing a lot of the rules over 1st and 2nd still felt very much like improvements on those previous versions (problems with multi-classed spellcasters aside). D&D 4th feels like a very different game, to the point where I wonder if I'm going want to mix up between playing/running 4th Ed and 3.5 games, the same way I currently change up between playing D&D and games like Mage: The Ascension, Shadowrun, etc. (Of course, my gaming group's track record with anything that isn't D&D or White Wolf is pretty poor. I don't think we've ever successfully completed a Shadowrun campaign, and games like Deadlands, Call of Cthulu, Wheel of Time, Star Wars, Toon, and countless others I've probably forgotten rarely lasted more than a couple sessions. I'd love to give the Serenity game a try, but I have absolutely zero ideas for adventures in the 'Verse and while there are quite a few Firefly fans in our group, none of them are enamored enough to actually run a game based on it.)
