I love Beatles singalongs
I instigated a huge one in the centre of Manchester once after a Take That concert.

We're either playing Hotel (incites violence) or Logo (intriguing) so either way I will embarrass myself.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 8:50, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

what's Hotel?
It sounds fun. More fun than the Risk night that Wiggy went to last Friday.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 8:54, Reply)

It's like Monopoly but with big tacky hotels to be built bit by bit
And it makes you giggle, then it makes you really competitive and evil, and then you run out of hotel entrances and use dog-ends.
Then you say "Shove the Waikiki up your arse!" and then there's a big fight and Will Young wins Pop Idol.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 8:58, Reply)

sounds awesome.
I played the Game of Life for the first time a while ago. It was overhyped. I didn't win.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 8:59, Reply)

I thought it was overhyped a bit
I still won, but it was a bit dull.

Most recent discovery was called Scotland Yard; someone is the criminal, the others have to try and catch him in a set number of turns. I won. I did a happy dance.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:00, Reply)

I think I've played that, it was really good fun.
I had one called 13 Dead End Drive where there are 13 character pieces on the board and you have cards that match 3 or 4 of the characters and you have to try and kill off the other characters without people realising who you are. It's got working trapdoors and a little chandelier that falls on the person you're killing.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:20, Reply)

That sounds awesome!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:25, Reply)

It is pretty cool
I also love the classics, like Guess Who, but that's not really a game you could centre a whole evening around. Unless you had a Guess Who tournament.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:30, Reply)

If you do that, promise you'll do something for me
The first person to ask something like "Are they black?", feign utter shock and disgust, and refuse to talk to them all night for being such racist bastards.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:35, Reply)

ok. I also want to slip a Marcellus Wallace picture in there
so I can say "does he look like a bitch?"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:55, Reply)

When the kids got Guess Who for Christmas one year
Having played against the kids and having had a few drinks, I ended up playing against my Brother-in-Law. To avoid it being quite so repetitve we developed a "embarrased, well-meaning naive liberal" mode of asking the questions - "Are they black?" would become "Might one be forgiven for thinking that they may well be quite fond of reggae or hip hop music?".
(Cave Duck, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:59, Reply)

haha

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 10:11, Reply)

Does he look like a bitch?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:51, Reply)

Fuck I didn't refresh.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:55, Reply)

it's just more evidence that we are meant to be

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:55, Reply)

:D

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 10:10, Reply)

I only played that once and I liked it
But then I was 9.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:01, Reply)

Risk is the best boardgame by a country mile

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:05, Reply)

It can go on for fecking hours though.
I prefer trivial pursuit, after I have taken all the cards with soap opera questions on them, out of the boxes.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:14, Reply)

if you play world domination it can
but even then usually not.

trivial pursuit goes on for a long time too
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:17, Reply)

I appreciate Triv censorship. Soap opera questions are the world of the devil.
If anyone wants a really good, easy to learn, card-based game, I would suggest Coloretto. Even suitable for non-Gamers :)

www.marquand.net/staticpages/index.php?page=coloretto_play
( The Teviot Moose major 5th., Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:28, Reply)

sport is the worst!
who knows anything about early 20th century horseraising ffs?!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:30, Reply)

Horse Racing and Boxing can go fuck themselves.
Everything else is vaguely do-able.
( The Teviot Moose major 5th., Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:42, Reply)

Nuh-uh
Settlers of Catan tops it for me.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:25, Reply)

YES!!

(Halfy By light alone, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:36, Reply)

When we were young, my brother and I really wanted a table tennis table.
Our Dad, being a tight but practical bloke, fashioned one out of an old trestle table and two large pieces of chipboard.
When the table tennis fad had passed, we drew an upscaled Risk board onto the top amd would spend hours playing it in the garage The feeling of it being one of those war room tables where people push model planes around with sticks seemed to add something to the game.
(Cave Duck, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:42, Reply)

I like the sound of that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:51, Reply)

actually I was wrong
Escape from Colditz was the best game ever.

Closely followed by Crossbows and Catapults.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 9:52, Reply)

That's just reminded me that my brother "had previous" in regard to drawing out board games.
He'd played the Colditz game at a friend's house and was so taken with it that he borrowed it and made a copy onto cardboard. Our Dad was so impressed with the effort that he'd put in that, despite being somewhat tigh, he gave him the money to go and buy the game. It was really good.
The next day I drew a picture of a Hull City season pass, but only got a clip round the ear. - It was a shit drawing, to be fair.
(Cave Duck, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 10:11, Reply)

hehe
that's excellent
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 10:12, Reply)