games Archive
01 Apr 2013
Bejeweled is the new Parcheesi
So we got the new “Bejeweled” board game, based on the computer and cellphone game we all know and love. We needed something new for board game night, after the harrowing “Monopoly” incident where a giant cat wiped out an entire row of new hotels and houses. The game instructions are simple, unfortunately I relied
27 Jan 2013
Monopoly with a speed die; it turns evil
I got a tournament-approved Monopoly “Speed Die” from a guy on ebay, we started a game using this third die today. Not sure if we will vote to use it in the future. The speed die does one of four things, three of them good but the last one very bad! If the SD shows
25 Jan 2013
It’s called MONOPOLY not MONOTONY
We recently saw a documentary on Netflix about tournament Monopoly players, and it inspired us to dust off the old Monopoly board, seeing as how is was miserable out and all four of us were home. The idea was to come up with some house rules that make it easier and more fun to play,
20 Jan 2012
Maybe I should have said tiger?
We have been sort of confined to quarters by bad weather, so to keep from going all REDRUM! we have been playing Pictionary. Now, every time we open the Pictionary box, I am confronted by the the drawings from earlier games. This picture is pretty obviously “Deodorant”… … But this one took a while to