When I Googled it, I found a copy on eBay for $179.00.

Considering the number of pieces and how easy it would be for bits to be bent/rendered unusable, I'm actually not surprised.

We played tons of euchre in university. Also mammoth Yatzee games where everyone had like twelve games running simultaneously, like the old ladies at bingo.

Megan, was it you that mentioned Pit? I loved that, but we had to stop playing because my grandmother and great aunt were so cutthroat. Risk was also banned in our house because my mother couldn't take how vicious we all got.

Cribbage, hearts, and backgammon are my family's staples. We played Monopoly when I was a kid, but my dad and I are too alike for that game to ever go well.

And because we were a family who took long car trips, I spent an obscene amount of money as an adult buying my own copy of the World's Greatest Travel Game on eBay.

I love backgammon. It's the one game I'm pretty cutthroat about, which Ben learned pretty early. I need to teach Sara to play, because checkers get boring.

We had a game I loved as kid, called Waterworks, where you have to piece the cards together to make a pipeline. I rescued it from my parents' basement, and the kids love that one, too.

I want you people to call my aunt in New Orleans and tell her about doppleganger werewolves. And you know what? She'll think I'm crazy. But if it had been about Scrabble, she'd still remember.

I can only play Balderdash if I play with my sister. We bullshit alike. Though, now that she has a PhD, I'm sure she can outbullshit me...but she shouldn't.

When is a flash drive a "dongle"?

Sometimes a dongle is a bit of hardware you attach to your computer (I guess they'd all be USB now) that confirms you have a legal copy of some software.

We had a game I loved as kid, called Waterworks, where you have to piece the cards together to make a pipeline. I rescued it from my parents' basement, and the kids love that one, too.

The cards were pipes? I loved that game.

Yeah, the cards were pipes! It's fun.

I call my USB cellular modem a dongle. Also the whosit.

Card games with regular cards: do you guys play Up and Down the River? We were introduced to it by our friends in Kansas and we play it every time we see each other. It can totally be a vicious game. I am fine with it except for the social aspects at which I predictably suck.

When is a flash drive a "dongle"? Also, if I never have to hear my boss at the theatre talking about his "dongle" again, it will be to soon.

It's like when my friend refers to random objects as a "hoo-hah". I'm like "um, that refers to lady parts, not the stapler"