[Vision2020] new topic: games

[debismith at moscow.com]

Mancala is our favorite, followed by the old standbys---Scrabble, Monopoly, and Yahtzee. Also 
reading aloud to one another from some interesting fiction, particularly Twisted Fairy Tales and 
Warped Mother Goose...
Debi R-S

From:           	"keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
To:             	vision2020 at moscow.com
Date sent:      	Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:09:53 -0800
Subject:        	[Vision2020] new topic:  games

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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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