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!

Yup, I saw that you liked it too, Frank! You obviously have excellent taste in games.

People are not answering my emails! I am glad to help things along, but I need communication, people!

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!

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.

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.

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Changing the rules of Scrabble is like killing Ianto. There's only so much I can take.

Bwah. May I tag?

Now I want to play BSG with ita.

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.

I was never all that fond of board games. Loathed Monopoly, hated Battleship.

We played Sorry!, chinese checkers, checkers, War, Uno, lots of Connect Four, and Trivial Pursuit. Strangely enough, I don't love Scrabble, but I adore Balderdash, Scattergories and Pictionary.

When I was about ten and lived with my mom and sister in an apartment complex, while my mom and dad were divorced, an elderly neighbor, Mrs. Mooney, started paying me .25 to take her trash to the dumpster, and ended up being an excellent friend to my little sister and I.

Her sister, who she lived with, had recently died, and soon, we started talking to her, and she would feed us port wine cheese and crackers, and then sundaes with whipped cream and nuts, and we would play hours of rummmy, and play with her cat, and she would tell us stories of being a career girl in Kansas City in the 30's. We would go through her jewelry box, and she would let us try on her stuff, and tell us the stories. She was wonderful.

I just remember playing cards with her for hours in the summertime, while she sipped "a little Maneschevitz" and eating Bugles. She taught my sister to play pinocle, but I never liked complex card games.

Audrey Mooney, RIP. You were a fine lady.