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.

Aw, Mrs. Mooney. I had some similar times with my grandmother and her sister, but they would have been much more fun (I'm sure) had it not been my own actual grandmother.

The rail game sounds like everyday conversation in NYC. "Hey. How did you get here? Oh yeah? How long did it take? I would never go that way..."

Your childhood with Mrs. Mooney sounds like something out of a Judy Blume novel, Erin. Everyone should have a Mrs. Mooney for a while.

There is only Scrabble. I grew up with Candyland, Life, Monopoly and assorted card games, but Scrabble is the only game I love. One problem with games based on chance is that my sister is much luckier than I am. The problem with Life was that I had to be a little pink pin, which I hated. (My hated of pink began very early.) The problem with Monopoly, which rather foreshadowed my later career, was that I usually bought all the utilities and went bankrupt.

A toast to Audrey Mooney; Mrs. Badenoch, who always had soft peppermints with green centers in a pressed glass candy dish and treated children as honored guests; Miss Lucy, who ran a small candy store just to be around children, and all the other grandparents by chance.