[Vision2020] new topic: games

[Paul Rumelhart]

I suggest go (which you've mentioned).  It's a great game with simple 
rules that takes a lifetime to master.  I am horrible at chess, and 
can't stand it, yet I do like the game of go.  It's more strategy 
oriented, but there is a lot of tactical skill needed as well.  I'm not 
very good at it, but I have been playing a computer version of it at 
high handicap levels so that I at least stand a chance against it.  The 
best thing to do, I hear, is to use a go client and connect to the 
internet.  Lots of avid go players there of all levels.

Aside from that, I haven't played an actual board game in years.

Cribbage is a fun game.  You just need to sit down with someone who 
plays and who has a board.  There's a small learning curve, but after 
you've figured out how everything is counted and who plays when you'll 
be off and running.

Paul

keely emerinemix wrote:

>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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