2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

You all see the new version where there's no hard currency at all, only like debit cards and shit?

Like, why would you remove the thing from the game that's entered the popular lexicon? "Monopoly money" is a real and physically tangible thing, fun to throw at each other is disdainful wads

monopoly makes having lots of money boring, it is secretly communist

I refuse to believe there are 7,803 board games people play more often than monopoly

btw, with 10,370 ratings, monopoly has a 4.5/10 score on Boardgamegeek and is ranked #7,804 out of every board game ever

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:59 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who cares what board game geeks think, this is a real game for real people!

Like, why would you remove the thing from the game that's entered the popular lexicon? "Monopoly money" is a real and physically tangible thing, fun to throw at each other is disdainful wads

assuming you've got wads left to throw

can't believe you actually bought the ipad app, so sad xp

well i may have not actually 'bought' it

do you really?

Yeah, actually; I mean, even allowing for how she was raised etc (child of batshit local fundie preacher), she was always gracious, kind, and did very very well in her classes, including sciences. It wasn't until she popped up on Facebook as a CC artist living in Alabama that she started exhibiting these dead zones of total lack of compassion. (By comparison, most of the other PKs I went to school with, all of whom were in the honors classes, are varying shades of liberal, particularly socially; abortion is the only sticking issue and most of them are still pro-choice even if they personally think abortion is murder.)

http://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame where the fuck is checkers?

said in nixon voice in honor of gop thread

OBAMA DID THIS.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvZc0zycMCM/RhmpohZEMWI/AAAAAAAAA20/BaGHhhsh4iI/s400/SOPRANOSTONYONFLOOR.jpg

http://www.magisterrex.com/prodimages/Anti-MonopolyFront-h450.png

I like that Apples to Apples is now distributed by Toys R Us & the like.

Now I'm just waiting for Carcasonne and Settlers of Catan to hit the major American toy/games distros.

Boy, now that looks like a fun game.

xp

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haha, I remember a friend of my mom had this when I was a little kid

They sell Settlers of Catan at Target

her friend had anti-monopoly, I mean

there was a copy of anti monopoly kicking around my house when i was a kid, a few times we attempted to play it couldnt figure out the rules and put it back on the shelf

There's a newer, better flavor of Anti- out there, which is based more on cooperation, but I can remember its name.

monopoly is such a bad game. so is risk. even apples to apples is basically stupid. americans make the worst games. f america

you know what's an awesome game, is Pass the Pigs

it had tons of these v small colored paper circles in it that u were suposed to use for something

monopoly is such a bad game. so is risk. even apples to apples is basically stupid. americans make the worst games. f america

― max, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:10 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fu

apples to apples is terrible tho

what I always did as a kid was I would play w/ my brother, who was younger than me and dumb, and I would be the banker and slowly steal one bill at a time while he wasn't watching

Surely every game of Monopoly everywhere ends with the banker stealing all the money?

(insert zing here)

Enh, I like it, but it depends on the crowd playing and how boringly literal minded they are

I like that Apples to Apples is now distributed by Toys R Us & the like.

Now I'm just waiting for Carcasonne and Settlers of Catan to hit the major American toy/games distros.

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:08 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Games By James is a really cool store chain we have up here, kinda HARDCORE board game store and stuff

http://www.gamesbyjames.com/index.htm

it had tons of these v small colored paper circles in it that u were suposed to use for something

yes! i never got that game either. i now own Monsanto.

oh man GAMES BY JAMES

many many xposts: That's a good question actually! (I assume "mass produced" as in, like, you can find it at Target and Toys R Us etc.) I wonder if there's any kind of way to search that.

A few standbys:

Life: #7,814 (almost entirely luck-based, usually a no-no)
Trivial Pursuit: #7,677 (dunno why, probably just requires too much that's "external" to the game)
Risk: #6,256 (presumably these people play a lot of other more complex war games etc)
Taboo: #1,076
Apples To Apples: #956 (all game geeks like having some crowd-pleasers for the casual visitor etc)
Scrabble: #827
Bananagrams: #825 (quicker than Scrabble, more portable, easier to hook people)
Pente: #800
Big Boggle: #799 (see bananagrams)
Backgammon: #774
Euchre: #739
Cribbage: #328
Mahjong: #310
Chess: #249
Bridge: #175

and it's...

Magic: the Gathering: #134 (hahahahahha)

Candyland: not ranked, has a 3.2/10 ;_;

And, to give you an idea of the heart and soul of the place: #1 is Twilight Struggle, a three-hour, two-player card and map game where you play out the Cold War. I played this once with my brother. It was possibly the most satisfying game I've ever played and yet I don't know that I could ever play it again. Back on topic: the same makers made a very similar game for the 1960 election which I might play (ranked #54!).

lmao

mtg is better than all those games tho, it's true

risk is so bad, i hate risk

taboo is pretty fun though

also apples to apples is really fun! You have to be at the right level of drunk where people are vociferously arguing for their left-field connections, but not so drunk that nothing actually makes sense and people are just cracking themselves up throwing cards all over the place. Similar to Taboo in that sense I think.

apples to apples is really fun the first time, and slightly less fun the second time, and then horrifingly unfun by the third time

fwiw, I think BGG probably has several large, non-overlapping contingents - - - so the CCG people probably push M:TG really high, even as the people that have evenings with Settlers and various geographically-themed German games (San Juan! Thebes! Calcutta!) don't play it at all.

Also, I would like to think that this giant board game derail is actually a sophisticated commentary on how the primaries are all JUST AN ARBITRARY GAME MAAAAN

game nerds seem a lot like beer nerds, there should be an awkward party where they come together and drink and play games and there are no females

Tons of females at board game nights though! Not parity, but last few times I went with my brother in Knoxville it was like 4/10 people, 5/11, etc.

well they still won't come if they hear beer nerds will be there

Yeah, board game nights are far more gender-balanced.

"But the real question on the pundits' minds is, which candidate would female voters rather play Settlers with?"

mormons prob play a lot of board games

I love drunk Taboo so much. All other games: boooooo.

And lo! we're back on topic, which is booing.

However, MTG evenings at the large local game shop(owned & operated by a lesbian couple) are like so, so dude-heavy you can't even spot the girlfriends dragged in.

Dutch Blitz, at christianbook.com

http://g.christianbook.com/g/product/9/9400x.gif

this past weekend I got together with a bunch of college buddies and played Asshole, which was amazing until I woke up the next morning and had to sing at church

Actually Dutch blitz is really fun. Like cards but not PLAYING cards, y'see.

Also on topic: more than average number of hardcore gamer dudes/MTG types have that borderline Aspergers edge where Ron Paul support is likely

shocking

(he calmly holds up his hand, palm outward in the universally recognized symbol for "Halt!" or possibly for "Go straight to hell!" if you live in Greece, according to one rather dicey internet site)

Halt! Take it to I Love Games, boys. We political junkies are still playing our game of Point & Laugh & Furrow Our Brows in this thread.