[Vision2020] new topic: games

[keely emerinemix]

I took a break from being screechy, gnarled, smug and shrill by playing a 
new board game this afternoon with Jeff and the boys -- Blokus, which we 
bought at Hodgins as our "family gift" for Christmas.  It's an 
award-winning, Mensa-endorsed game similar to dominoes and Go, I think.  I 
have the spatial ability of a lemur, and yet I'm able to learn this 
geometric, block-placing game easily, and I've won twice now.  So, my New 
Year's Family Board Game recommendations are:

1. Blokus
2. Backgammon
3. Pente
4.  Mancala
5.  Yahtzee

I am, without question, the world's worst chess player; I taught both of my 
sons when they were five and they've been beating me since they were six.  
In addition, I'm dying to learn how to play cribbage, but I don't know how 
and the online and in-print instructions are too confusing.  Still, on a 
dreary, sloppy winter's day, it's great to hang out with the guys, turn off 
all electronica, and play a nice, testosterone-charged board game together 
(with my husband and two teenage boys, everything is testosterone-charged!). 
  Any other recommendations from the Visionaires in my life?

keely

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