[Vision2020] new topic: games

[Mike Finkbiner]

I too enjoy Go a lot, not to mention lots of other strategy games,  but if 
you are looking for good family games I can recommend one I was introduced 
to over New Years - Apples to Apples.  It can be played by four or more 
people and involves trying to select cards from your hand to match a card 
from the judges stack.  It's pretty funny, because lots of times no one has 
a close match, so you have to try and find something that might work.

Another family card game from a few years ago is The Great Dalmuti.  It's a 
first-person-to-get-rid-of-all-his-cards game, with some funny twists, and 
possibly funny hats.  It even has an article in Wikpedia!

- Mike

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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

Mike Finkbiner
mike_l_f at hotmail.com

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