We had this marvellous game in England which was British Rail, and you had to work out how to get from place A to place B most efficiently, and we were all up on the entire rail system plus tourist destinations.
Oh my gosh, I would LOVE that game!!
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - Jun 07, 2010 10:21:25 am PDT #4842 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Frankenbuddha - Jun 07, 2010 10:21:39 am PDT #4843 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
ita, have you ever played Milles Bournes?
As I said earlier, along with Clue it was my favorite childhood game.
I bet I'd still love giving people flat tires!
That never gets old!
javachik - Jun 07, 2010 10:23:42 am PDT #4844 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Yup, I saw that you liked it too, Frank! You obviously have excellent taste in games.
Daisy Jane - Jun 07, 2010 10:25:56 am PDT #4845 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
People are not answering my emails! I am glad to help things along, but I need communication, people!
Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2010 10:26:11 am PDT #4846 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
We had this marvellous game in England which was British Rail, and you had to work out how to get from place A to place B most efficiently
But... but... the problem is NP complete! It's not solvable in polynomial time!
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2010 10:26:24 am PDT #4847 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
have you ever played Milles Bournes?
I've never heard of that, jc.
Trainspotting - the home edition.
With less toilet action, though.
I found it! The Great Game of Britain! I'd totally buy it...except it'd be even more lonely and loserish than my Super Scrabble.
Pix - Jun 07, 2010 10:27:25 am PDT #4848 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
ita, you should come to our next game night! Always good fun, and I promise we won't play Snakes/Chutes and Ladders.
ION, only in LA would this be an actual tweet from a local news station:
BREAKING NEWS: Police standoff with sword-wielding porn actor ends as suspect goes over cliff >[link]Um.
Liese S. - Jun 07, 2010 10:32:18 am PDT #4849 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Changing the rules of Scrabble is like killing Ianto. There's only so much I can take.
Bwah. May I tag?
megan walker - Jun 07, 2010 10:34:26 am PDT #4850 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Now I want to play BSG with ita.
Zenkitty - Jun 07, 2010 10:34:40 am PDT #4851 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
How could I forget Scrabble?! The uber-game, the go-to game in our household, the game everyone would always agree on. And my mom liked Uno. She didn't like Clue, as I recall, so we only played a few times.
We played Eurorails and Trivial Pursuit when I was older, as in with my friends in college.
We had this marvellous game in England which was British Rail
That sounds just like Eurorails, ita, except based in Britian instead of Europe. I love that game; wish I had someone to play it with.
Ooooh. We should totally design a Leverage board game. Like Clue, only you go around a museum stealing stuff.
I want this. Now, please.
(Not that one, megan walker!)
I really hated (and still pretty much do) any game the outcome of which was entirely based on chance. I just did not see the point.
Me too!
black soul covered by the cloak of grace
I think this may describe me. I'll ask my ex.
I pretty much can't think of any one entire peoples that I am "anti".
My neighbors.