What’s your favorite bored game?
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I don’t really play games to engage my mind when bored. I like to learn stuff.
But, to stick with the rulez:
I play Eve quite a bit these days, so if I was bored and going to play a game, that would probably be it. I also like Rift.
Yeah, I know. I’m a computer junkie.
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Plain old chess. Or Chinese checkers.
I have a couple fast 1 min. games on the computer– just something to do while I watch/listen to the t.v.– or I read– I can’t just sit there and watch t.v.–the Mr. can but I think there’s a lot of zzzzzing going on.
My favorite is ” Wheel of Fortune”.
At one time I played chess but everyone else around Me likes “bored” games. Ack! Bored to tears games. I told My nieces and nephews that “sorry” should be called screw your neighbor.
” So-reeeeee “
I study historical battles, both air and infantry. I try to write down the good, bad and ‘other”. Strategy and Logistics are my favorite things to solve….
Get a 4′ length of 2 x 4 (oak is best, but if you can’t find it, pine or spruce will do)
Sneak up behind some lib asshole who is in the act of “keying” a car with a conservative and/or republican bumper sticker.
Whack him with the bored.
*ponk* ….uh… did I miss something in all this?
What’s up with that chess thing anyway? Is there a chess set that has all the pieces based on the likenesses of Playboy Bunnies? If not, there’s bound to be one based on Star Wars characters; perhaps with a chess bored having a border in which is emblazoned that all time great playing slogan “let the wookie win.”
^^ I study historical battles, both air and infantry.
Wonder if anyone here on the porch reads much by David Drake and/or David Weber, but particularly David Drake. I suppose if you have, then you know why ColJ’s remark triggered my thought.
(hey, guys… been a while)
Chess is decent, but it seems like everyone I play is either so much better than me or so much worse than me that there’s no real challenge in it to me.
I like Diplomacy (with the original rulebook that encouraged and permitted you to try and cheat), Settlers of Cataan, Sid Meier’s Civilization: The Board Game, Saganami Island Tactical Simulator (aka David Weber’s Honorverse: the Board Game), and the new Capital Offensive (aka Schlock Mercenary: The Board Game).
Basically, if it’s so complex it really should be a computer game but isn’t (at least, not without scaling the game down horribly, or taking away an element like the strategy of watching your opponent to determine if he’s bluffing or trying to put one over on you while conducting negotiations), then I like the board game. It is rather hard to find other people willing to play these games, though.
Seriously Sondra, I’d much rather read a book.
But, since you brought up the subject, I heard* that there is a new bored game over at the BHO White House called “Anti-Capitalism,” which is a kind of reverse Monopoly game.
In this game, players pretend to be U.S. politicians who auction off the domestic assets, citizen freedoms, and foreign interests of the USA to third world dictators. There are extra points awarded for compromising any one of the Bill of Rights Amendments or outing any US foreign intelligence operation leading to the loss of life of US operatives.
There are double points for anyone who can figure out how to give Guantanamo Bay back to Cuba.
The player who gives away the most stuff wins.
* Possibly from Harry Reid’s anonymous source.
I like chess too, but everyone who plays me hates me for the rest of their life. That doesn’t mean to say that I win every game… they just hate me for the rest of their life.
Other than that?: Jenga!
Let’s try that again.
Try this.
(fixed it, you’re welcome — dm)
No one will play “Monopoly” with my Missus. In an hour, she owns all the property and bankrupts the other players.
Bored is right. I hate board games. The only one I ever enjoyed was famous artists game I played in college once. Tequila shots after every wrong answer.
Last time I ever drank tequila…or for that matter, ever wandered around an apartment complex naked.
Stick, I’ll bet you were invited to every lets play artist game party.
I did have fun with the fam playing the game where we had to draw the clew–pictionary— that led to some interesting art— and I don’t think we followed the rules quite to the T.
^17 G.
This was during my second enrollment after naval service so I didn’t have the excuse of being an 18 year old freshman. I did have the excuse of streaking being in vogue at the time. My roommates told me about it the next day & I called bullshit UNTIL I heard about it on campus. I asked a friend about it when I got back home & she said I came to their apartment, sat on her bed naked & talked for 1/2 hour. I have no knowledge of any of it, hence the Tequila shot ban.
Scrabble – I know…..Heh! y’all have no need to stifle your bellicose guffaws!
In hunting camp, we play poker for matchsticks while sipping whiskey.
As a child, my great aunt and uncle owned 9 rental cabins at the base of Mt. Meeker between Allenspark and Estes Park. We spent at least a week each summer there. Dad would work with uncle Bob, Mom would help aunt Mamie. We kids would fish, roam the mountain trails. build forts, play Cowboys and Indians. On rainy days, we would play board games in the main lodge. Chinese checkers was my favorite.
Clue not clew— I swear there’s gremlins in this computer— Ahh yes Stick– you had no knowledge so you had no way to defend yourself :)) good thing it wasn’t now when everyone has cell phones— you’d have been on Utube. Mine was my a surprise birthday party. I was gifted with a juice pitcher of margaritas — I didn’t become quite so un- inhibited as to strip but I didn’t last to say good bye to my guests nor could I thank them in person so I had to send thank you cards. I must say a good time was had by all. I’m limited to one on special occasions.
Only games I ever played that could be called “board games” are cribbage and acey-deucy. Usedta really like double-deck pinochle, and contract bridge if some decent players could be rounded up.
To avoid boredom, I write poetry, parodies, short stories, articles, essays, and novellas. Once in a great while, somebody publishes somethin I’ve written, and on even more rare occasions, they send me money for it.
To share my boredom, I write essays and rants and sarcastic song parodies which I then post on various websites and chatboards. Keeps me off the streets and out of the bars.
^^Sven^^^
I once flew my Beechcraft to an airport near Estes Park. To take a buddy to his Italian family reunion. I took several day hikes around the local area and found it to be beautiful. Regrettably, I ate so much fucking Italian food, that I wasn`t sure my Beechcraft could get airborne, at that altitude, due to the additional gross fucking weight, I added……..
#8, Colonel Jerry USMC. I like what you do there and have been sharing with us in some of your posts.
From time to time I have been drawn to that air war over Europe and the crews and aircraft they flew 1942-45.
Do target backers count as a board?
If not, then chess or scrabble or trivial pursuit or, in my cognac-drinking-at-the-beach days, backgammon or, in my ale-swilling-at-a-pub days, darts.
(What? Well, why do they call it a “dart boooard” then?)
Used to play computer chess, ’cause I don’t mind losing to a machine (they don’t rub it in later). My own chess board is wider than its table, an old Singer treadle sewing machine base. That way, I can hang the board over my side a little, so when I’m losin’ I can stand up and knock the pieces over. Mine’s an Isle of Lewis set. Haven’t played in years, though. Haven’t played any board game in years. Don’t know anybody I’d want to play board games with.
Colonel Jerry – Sir!,
Estes Park sits at the north-eastern edge (kinda) of Rocky Mountain National Park. Allenspark is near the south-eastern edge of the park.
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Mt Meeker is the southern point of the Longs Peak massif……gorgeous country! My aunt and uncle’s cabins (Luring Pines) were located on Cabin Creek, which was named for a nearby south facing outcropping of rock where Kit Carson built a cabin in 1839 or 1840. He lived there while trapping beaver for the Bent – St. Vrain Trading Co. Remnants of the chimney were still visible until the early 1970′s.
Did y’all fly into Loveland or Estes Park?
Well…..that didn’t work! Will try again:
RMNP.
I like cribbage. It uses a “Board” to keep score. Does that make it a board game?
Monopoly, chess and even Jenga! ( have two sets )
Nobody lets me play trivial pursuit anymore.
I like risk also but don’t know anybody who has a set anymore. Or isn’t transfixed to some sort of video screen.
I like Monopoly. I just don’t have the head for chess, I can’t win. I recently tried Settlers of Cataan and it’s pretty good.
Back in the 80′s there was a computer game called EMPIRE. I still have a copy and have lost a measurable percentage of my life playing it.
re: board games, the game itself is secondary to the social experience. With the right people, any game can be fun.
^^Sven^^^
When I finished war college in 78 at Ft. Leavanworth,KS, I was ordered to the West Coast. I stopped for a 2 week, 180 circle backpacking trip, starting and ending at Creede, Colorado. The sheriff of Creede, I shit you not, wore a cowboy outfit w 2 silver revolvers and looked like Gary Cooper in High Noon!
It was Spring and snow was still deep in a lot of places and streams were gushing with white water. I must have explored a dozen or so of abandoned log cabins on the route. They still had a lot of stuff, like old tin cans and tools, all rusting but still there. Absolutely magnificant mountain ranges & forests. Little dicey at times trying to find my way thru the snow, but I am glad I got to see that part of Colorado. Never saw a living soul once I left Creede……
I never went to war college, so I had to learn all by myself. It’s not pretty.
My only experience in war college involved seniors in science & math disciplines about to get their degrees but short one core course (Technical Writing) to complete the DCP. By that time in their careers, they considered anything not directly related to their specialties — computer programming, systems analysis, marine biology, chemistry, and similar stuff — an impediment, an obstacle, an unnecessary pothole in their road to big bucks, big cars, and big deals.
No way they could get out it — no waivers, no substitutes — and I was the only one teaching it at the time, so they focused their rancor upon moi as the target of their frustration, anger, and malevolence.
Stupid bastards had 3 1/2 years to get it out of the way, but they put it off until that last semester when they thought they shoulda been baskin insteada taskin.
Teachin bitter, angry, vicious young adults who consider you the enemy is indeed a form of college warfare, I assure you.
Been banned from Trivial Pursuit for years. Only worthy opponent died. Tried to make it fair by having to answer all the five questions on the card. Still won every game.
I’m an asshole.
For me Trivial Pursuit was, well, trivial. I knew most of that stuff, and could bore the cr-p out of anyone within listening distance with my knowledge of things “real” people simply didn’t care about.
Then I got wrapped up in Scattergories! Easy to play, people with half a brain or a Public School education can play. Great game for when you’re camping, sitting ’round the campfire, drunk on your butt! Try it… drink heavily… you’ll LIKE it!
^^^Bocopro^^^
Kinda had a similar feeling at the US Army Command and General Staff college.
900 Army officers and 10 Marine officers. General feelings toward Marines: We were still fighting brush wars at Vera Cruz.
As class leader of the Gyrenes, I proposed an informal vote one time. My theory was that: About 1/3rd of the Dogfaces in our class had never met an enlisted man! The vote was 10-0………..
Actually, Colonel, I have to give ‘em their props. Remember, this is the deep South, and they knew I was retired military with a background in elex & comm systems. At least 90% respected me for that and prob’ly gave me less grief than they would have a woman or some out-of-it liberal.
I got more bullshit from the other retired Navy types than from some of the kids. One LCDR insisted that I address him as “Commander” at all times. My policy was to address all male students by Mr. and their family name and all women by Miss, Ms, or Mrs. followed by their family name. Only people I addressed by military title or rank were those in uniform or on campus to deliver a speech or address or presentation.