w00t, got this for Christmas. It's similar in idea to the video game. You take your civilization to one of 4 victory conditions. Pretty big time investment and we'd probably have to play it multiple times to get into it. Seems really interesting though.
Stargate SG-1: The Show: The Board Game - Players 2-6, Play time 2 hours, Medium-Steep learning curve
Barbie is way into SG-1 so I got her this for Christmas. I understand that it's got a Risk-esque mechanic, but it's also in space so maybe mdw won't hate it.
Samurai Swords (currently named Ikusa) - Players 2-5, Play time 3 hours, Medium-Steep learning curve
Enjoyed it the times we've played it. It has a ninja for hire. What else do you need to know?
Billonaire - Players 2-4, Play time < 1 hour, Med-low learning curve
Pretty good game that my grandparents had. Main idea is a blind bidding mechanic. Lighter fare.
Key to the Kingdom - Players 2-6, Play time < 1 hour, Low learning curve
Got this for Christmas when I was a kid. You run around and collect treasure and try to escape. Mostly it's roll the dice and see what happens. But it's got a demon in it that moves around and kills you kind of like a ninja. And with a slight bit of creativity I'm sure it could be a drinking game.
Others: Monopoly, Risk, etc
So what other games do we have? I know Rachel has a buttload of games and someone ended up with Dicecapades or something. After the new year let's set up some times and get it going.i'm down for boardgames. videogames aren't my thang. I'll be around MLK weekend. that's my two cents.
I'm down for some board gameage. I'd be in favor of a weekly thing, like tuesday nights or something, where we can play a few of the shorter games or one of the more involved games like SG-1. Then maybe one saturday a month we can play some of the more involved games like Civilization. Matt, you can borrow my table-flip shirt for those nights as a precursor to the rage quit. Lol, we need to add a caption to the shirt: "The original rage quit." Maybe "DC Noob!" on the back, haha
Cranium, Sequence, and Phase 10 are the others ones I can think of that we have at PMC.
I'm thinking of getting YDKJ for the 360, which should be a good addition to game night. The console version doesn't have any gibberish questions, but it's still pretty fun.
By foolish games I assume you mean Apples to Apples, Sequence, and Phase 10. Basically the set of games where Rachel always wins.
I've always found Jewel to be pretty hot.
There's also the card game called Rachel Wins, which I never really played but vaguely remember from freshman year. It involves a set of rules that are only remembered when convenient for rachel (for to win), hehe. <3
Jewel has some jacked up teeth, but otherwise very hot.
p.s. - If anyone has a hankering for playing Risk now, Landrule is pretty good. It's free and you can play with 1-10 players. You can set a shot clock of increments of 10 minutes up to 24 hours. You can enable notifications so you know when it's your turn. Unfortunately there's no contact/facebook integration, but you can search for games by username. My username is brownmagic if you want to play.
You know who writes good poems? Jewel. Her teeth are crooked and she lived in a car, so she has stuff to write about.
PMC also has Cootie, which I couldn't remember the name of until I saw this headline: "Review: In "Devil Inside" Beelzebub is the new cooties".
I wouldn't mind playing some fives-up double 6 dominoes too. :)
taking ideas for ultimate RISK:
- in the beginning for each territory a game of civilization shall be played, winner gets that terrritory
- every battle across water requires a game of battleship
- japan = samurai swords
arif and i had the inaugural game of civilization last night, my russian commies vs his roman republicans, ended with the commies getting off space flight ftw and a spite nuke for good measure, i caught some breaks early and arif didn't, but it's fun keeping track of every differnent thing going on, took about 5 hours, but the first 2 were figuring stuff out mostly, it's actually not that diffucult to understand after the first two turns, already plotting my next strategy...
house rule: i just decided if you're american and go republican, you must refer to it as "strategery"
round 2 of civilization feat me arif and barb, arif's roman republicans vs barb's russian commies vs my chinese democracy, arif once again had some tough going early that was hard to recover from, barb was all up in my junk and i was like you should gtfo or i will use my nuke, so she beat me up and took my nuke, so i got another nuke and she took that one too, arif almost came from behind with a sneaky cultural victory, but barb got her commies into space ftw one turn before my chinamen did
The Roman emperor's obsession with conquering some primative barbarians proved to be fruitless and rendered them largely irrelevant for most of civilization. However, the decisive moment in time was when the Chinese ruthlessly murdered an innocent Russian scout. The nature of this scout remains a mystery, and although the Chinese claim that he was really a Russian spy invading their city to steal culture and trade in the name of the motherland, historians remain skeptical and propose that the story is likely communist propoganda fabricated by the government to cover up the heinous crime. Although the truth may never be told about this unnamed scout--until the national geographic special "The Mystery of the Motherland Messenger: Martyr or Marauder?" narrated by Morgan Freeman reveals some shocking evidence--one fact remains true: it put an end to very short cold war that set for a series of events that resulted in the Russians gaining space flight first. A provocative painting, created by the Roman artist Arifus Rahmanius, portrays this historic event and raises questions about the nature of the Motherland Messenger, but in the end, the world was like "Seriously, a painting? That's all you've got? The Russians are on the moon!" :)
Haha, until next time!
Everybody knows that Chinese Democracy was never meant to happen.