Gaming, and not the usual kind
Last night for a little surprise we took a trip to Game Chest to pick up a few games to play together. Real games, not the video kind. We actually sat at the dining table and played together instead of at computer screens next to each other to play together. It was great fun.
First we played Ticket To Ride (European Edition) which is all about building train routes between cities. It's one of the German style games, which means fairly simple concepts wrapped into a little bit of a package. It got to be a nailbiter at the end when I was hoping I had enough of the right cards to lay down the Paris-Zurich route through a tunnel and complete my last destination ticket. Ash won this one, squeezing me out 122 to 118.
I had never played Scattergories before, but I seem to have done fairly decently at it. We got a few real stumpers (dairy products starting with R???) and some really funny conicidences (things at a football game that start with A, we both put down 'assholes'). We went through all 12 lists and had a great time of it. I may have won, but pretty sure she went easy on me about my words qualifying.
Last up was Gloom, the card game where you attempt to make your characters suffer the most misfortunes possible (such as being Pursued By Midgets) and make the other players' happier (by finding love and fortun) before they die their tragic deaths. It suggests telling a little story as you go along, how the Old Damn went from happily married to beset by horrors at all hours of the day, which was fun until I ruined it by essentially said "But not really!" when playing a card that undoes a death. Still, I want to give it a few more tries, maybe with 4 players. (and there's expansions out to add on to that with 5 or 6 players.
We're going to try to do this more often, take breaks from things with screens. Maybe even get a regular thing of it, play with other people.
First we played Ticket To Ride (European Edition) which is all about building train routes between cities. It's one of the German style games, which means fairly simple concepts wrapped into a little bit of a package. It got to be a nailbiter at the end when I was hoping I had enough of the right cards to lay down the Paris-Zurich route through a tunnel and complete my last destination ticket. Ash won this one, squeezing me out 122 to 118.
I had never played Scattergories before, but I seem to have done fairly decently at it. We got a few real stumpers (dairy products starting with R???) and some really funny conicidences (things at a football game that start with A, we both put down 'assholes'). We went through all 12 lists and had a great time of it. I may have won, but pretty sure she went easy on me about my words qualifying.
Last up was Gloom, the card game where you attempt to make your characters suffer the most misfortunes possible (such as being Pursued By Midgets) and make the other players' happier (by finding love and fortun) before they die their tragic deaths. It suggests telling a little story as you go along, how the Old Damn went from happily married to beset by horrors at all hours of the day, which was fun until I ruined it by essentially said "But not really!" when playing a card that undoes a death. Still, I want to give it a few more tries, maybe with 4 players. (and there's expansions out to add on to that with 5 or 6 players.
We're going to try to do this more often, take breaks from things with screens. Maybe even get a regular thing of it, play with other people.