December 05, 2003

• I love games. Good post. To this list of fun games (and for a cynical jab at the Christmas spirit)I would reccomend a fun game called Zombies!!! If you dig horror movies, it is a fun, humorous extension of the theme. It also utilizes a nice random board system so the city you play in is different each time.
• I recall a couple of Christmasses ago playing a game called something like The Settlers of Catan. Basically, you each get control of a civilisation and you must peacefully make the most successful colony on a small island. Of course, by "peacefully" I mean "stab your sister in the back and steal all her sheep while she's not looking". Unfortunately, the rules were in German so it was a tad harder to play than we may have anticipated.
• Settlers is a great game. Here are English translations of the basic and full rules should you ever want to play again.
• Wow, thanks for that, Shotsy. *Stabs Shotsy in the back and steals all his sheep*
• Cheapass Games. But my favorite party game is still blank white cards - we play the variant where you draw all your cards first, and play until someone has to go home, because it's so fun we rarely stop before then.
• jb, just looked over the blank white cards, and that is the coolest game ever!
• My favorite cards from games I've played (unfortunately not made up by me): Alien Abduction Card (complete with cartoon of a surprised looking cow) - Lock another player in the bathroom and steal all their cards. You cannot tell them why. Dumbass! Card - Picture of a Donkey, cancels any other card. We also had No Way! and Way! cards, which of course cancelled each other out.
• Of course, I would like some people to go back a few threads, I think those are really quite nice links.
• Let me point the way, two years later, to Board Game Geek. An incredibly useful resource for the board game loving monkey.