Board (or Bored) Games
So after my brief encounter with Barack Obama at Olomana Golf Links we had our very first Couples Game Night. Now I don’t know about you, but I love board games. It brings out the competitive side in me. Rob and Kelli were the ones who organized this event and they brought the lion’s share of the games. They had so many games (and so many that I had never even heard of).
Check out that spread!
Notice in the lower left hand side of the picture there’s a game called Carcassonne Big Box? That’s one of Rob and Kelli’s favorite games. Keao and I tried to play it a few weeks ago and let me tell you, it is a fun game, but it really does make you feel like a geek! Without giving you too many details, there are these little humanoid figures called Meeples (rhymes with peoples). They can farm, rob, occupy cities and the like. So your goal is to get as many points using these Meeples to farm, rob, etc. The game goes round and round until you run out of tiles and then all the points are added up. Like I said before, it is a fun game…just a little nerdy 🙂
Look at that intensity!
Now it looks like they’re having fun
But Carcassonne wasn’t the only game we played. We also played one of my all-time favorite games, Scattergories. Basically Scattergories is played with a die that has different letters on it. You roll the die and whatever letter is on top is the letter for the list. What that means is that you need to answer every item on the list with a word or words starting with the letter. For instance, if your letter is L and one of the items on the list is “villians” you could answer Lucifer or Lex Luthor or any villian that starts with the letter L (it doesn’t matter if it’s a first name or last name). The catch is that you cannot have the same answer as anyone else or they negate each other. When you play with people with big vocabularies and a large knowledge base this game can be really fun and exciting (for instance, John John pulled out Djibuti City as a capital starting with the letter D). I don’t want to brag or anything, but I pretty much owned everyone at Scattergories. That’s right, you read that right. I pretty much owned everyone. If you think you can take me on let me know. I’m always willing to send someone home crying!
Despite their spanking, the other couples still managed to smile
7 thoughts on “Board (or Bored) Games”
I guess I’m a little geeky but I like carcasonne. hehe.I also noticed settlers of catan, which is our current favorite. We don’t have all those expansion sets… yet! Ooh, and Pit is always fun if you have people who like to shout hahaha!Nely might have to contest you on the pwning scattergories thing tho’ hahaha, I’m such an instigator!Have you played Ticket to Ride or Killer Bunnies?
yeah, i bet nely could really give me a run for my money. she has an extraordinary vocabulary!
so confusing…david and nely like carcasonne but yet I think they’re cool people. Does that mean carcasonne is cool and we’re not? Couldn’t be possible.
Looks likr you had fun. I love scattergories. My family would play our own verison where you pick a 5 letter then everyone picks a category. Fun fun. I don’t think I want to play with you though Scott. I played other games with you and you’re mean.
Haha, Keao, I only said that I liked Carcasonne so MAYBE you and Nely are still cool… :)That would make me… hmm… what’s not cool? I must be HOT!!! he he!!!
Those games look fun! You guys really have to try Ticket To Ride. With the 1910 Expansion so you get the big cards and extra routes!Dave and Nely introduced us to the Killer Bunnies game, I do have to say that is a great game with or without kids! In fact, it’s sometimes more fun without the kids because it can get so much more competitive!
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