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Celaeno - you only need to meet one more Hatracker to become real? I'm in Sunnyvale for the next month or so, and I'm real...
And I like playing board and card games!
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I don't know how Truth or Dare Jenga works, but Drinking Jenga is a lot of fun... Buy a regular Jenga set, and on each block write down drinking orders (take two, give out three, finish your drink...), dares, pranks, rules that everyone has to follow, etc. You pull a block, you have to follow its instructions.
--- A favorite game of mine is Alhambra. It was the Spiel des Jahres 2003(Game of the Year in Germany), which is almost always a good recommendation. It has a feel similar to Settlers and Carcassonne. Each player tries to build a city by buying tiles of different buildings - you get points by having the most (or second or third most) of a type of building in your city at different intervals in the game. On your turn, you can choose to buy a building or collect money (which comes in four different currencies) which will fuel later purchases. The rules are fairly simple, but there's a lot of strategy possible.
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"Truth or Dare" Jenga is much like what Jhai described. You write instructions (either a truth to tell, or a dare to do) on each block and you have to do (or tell) what you draw. The person who causes the tower to drop has to draw three blocks from the rubble and follow their instructions (i.e. to discourage people who just want to topple the tower to get the game over with). My wife and I have a "clean" version and a "dirty" version to appeal to any crowd.
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Pirate's Cove - Our current most favorite game ever. We have our little "Pirate's Club" that comes over every Sunday night to play. We even went to the drive-in early to see "Dead Man's Chest" and took a card table to play the game. We play 6 players, with one being the infamous pirate. Loaded Questions - Our favorite larger group game. We play this sans board. It's more fun. We've played with up to 12 people.
Who, Where, How? - Our favorite party game. It's kind of Charades meets Clue meets Telephone. Seriously fun and seriously funny!
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Loaded Questions sounds like fun to me, too! I've played Pirate's Cove and found it not that fun, though. Maybe it was the group I played with?
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quote:Originally posted by Jhai: Celaeno - you only need to meet one more Hatracker to become real? I'm in Sunnyvale for the next month or so, and I'm real...
And I like playing board and card games!
Oooh, let's do it. Maybe next week some time? I'll facebook message you. (Because I'm a nerd.)
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So this only kinda relates as it's not really a party-game per-se, but is there anyone else here that plays some variant of Mao?
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I love Settler's of Catan, by my 2 favorites are Titan and Iron Dragon.
Both of these games take a really long time, but they're a blast.
I don't think Titan is even made anymore, but you can download a free online version called Colossus (which doesn't take nearly as long to play as the original). Basically you go around the board recruiting mythical/fantasy monsters to do battle with other players monsters.
In Iron Dragon, you build railways across a fantasy world (w/ elves, dwarves, and dragons)and ship goods along the railways to generate income.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Loaded Questions sounds like fun to me, too! I've played Pirate's Cove and found it not that fun, though. Maybe it was the group I played with?
That is true on a lot of these games; the group you are playing them with makes or breaks the game. Some games are more fun than others, but nothing beats a bunch of friends hanging around playing....a lot fo time it doesn't really matter what you ar playing then.
I had a blast over Icarus' house last night, but when we played Malarkey Lisa didn't care for it at first. I know she still doesn't care for it as much as others, but once we loosened up and had fun with it it was a lot more fun overall.
We also played a video board game called Nightmare, her favorite game, and the sequel. It was weird, as I had never played a video board game (it is a video that gives instructions while you play a board game), but it was a blast.
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quote:Originally posted by Narnia: Where can I find the rules to that last game, diva?
Well, I'd probably just have to tell you them.
Who? Where? How?
3 people leave the room. The rest of the group decides who died, where they died and how they died. It's much more fun if they don't relate at all. An example: Santa Clause died in the Great Salt Lake from lung cancer.
First person enters the room and asks one person "who" and they act it out, charades style. Then they ask someone else "where" and then someone else "how." Once they've seen all of them, person #2 enters the room. Person #2 asks person #1 "who" followed by a reinactment, "where" and "how." The same process is followed for person #3.
After all the charades are done, person #3 guesses who died, where they died and how they died. Then person #2 guesses, then person #1. Then the group reveals what the real answers were.
The 3 people who person #1 asked to act are the next 3 people to leave the room.
It's a riot, and makes for hours of fun! Enjoy!
Edited to add: Grimace, we play Mao. It's fun!
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