Monday, September 20, 2004
Freaky, freaky games
When it comes to playing games with people, my preference is that we latch onto something a little more bizarre, a little different -- heck, let's just say it now -- a little more "alternative." Sure, we could play Cribbage for a couple of hours ... or we could play The Hills Rise Wild. I'd go with the latter without hesitation. I like weird games, and I pride myself on occasionally being able to track down some pretty obscure-but-damn-fun-to-play games.
Jacquie comes from a family that plays card games. A lot. I don't hate cards, but I dislike them. There are only fifty-two different cards in the deck, and it doesn't take long before all card games start to play the same. However, Jacquie's family plays cards above anything else for some reason. It probably has to do with the fact that there are about fifteen million relatives (give or take twenty-five thousand) that all get together to play cards (just imagine a table the size of Ontario where they're all seated), and you can scale card games up just by adding more decks.
When I'm around a lot of people that I know are die-hard card players, I worry that somebody's going to break out a deck and suggest a card game. Perhaps the worst of these is the notoriously-named Asshole. For the record, I don't find this game even remotely fun. It's mind-numbingly boring and stupid, but I've met a lot of people that play it. Worse, these people can't understand why I don't like it.
Ditto games like Dominoes. A few years ago, my Aunt Pat and Uncle Joe taught my parents to play Dominoes with the twelve-dotted tiles, and ever since they've become advocates of this game. I can almost picture my parents at rallies passing out Dominoes tiles and telling people what a great game it is and that they should really play it.
Dominoes takes about three hours to play, and the game is so simplistic that it's downright boring. There are twelve rounds, each of which play out more or less the same as every other round. The only way I can force myself to play (which I avoid as much as possible, I must add) is to just annihilate that filter between my brain and my mouth and let my sense of humour run wild. Doing that allows me some entertainment while occasionally entertaining others.
However, Jacquie doesn't find my antics funny in the least, and it's usually a good, long while before somebody coerces me into playing Dominoes again. So that works in my favour, you see. ;)
Jacquie comes from a family that plays card games. A lot. I don't hate cards, but I dislike them. There are only fifty-two different cards in the deck, and it doesn't take long before all card games start to play the same. However, Jacquie's family plays cards above anything else for some reason. It probably has to do with the fact that there are about fifteen million relatives (give or take twenty-five thousand) that all get together to play cards (just imagine a table the size of Ontario where they're all seated), and you can scale card games up just by adding more decks.
When I'm around a lot of people that I know are die-hard card players, I worry that somebody's going to break out a deck and suggest a card game. Perhaps the worst of these is the notoriously-named Asshole. For the record, I don't find this game even remotely fun. It's mind-numbingly boring and stupid, but I've met a lot of people that play it. Worse, these people can't understand why I don't like it.
Ditto games like Dominoes. A few years ago, my Aunt Pat and Uncle Joe taught my parents to play Dominoes with the twelve-dotted tiles, and ever since they've become advocates of this game. I can almost picture my parents at rallies passing out Dominoes tiles and telling people what a great game it is and that they should really play it.
Dominoes takes about three hours to play, and the game is so simplistic that it's downright boring. There are twelve rounds, each of which play out more or less the same as every other round. The only way I can force myself to play (which I avoid as much as possible, I must add) is to just annihilate that filter between my brain and my mouth and let my sense of humour run wild. Doing that allows me some entertainment while occasionally entertaining others.
However, Jacquie doesn't find my antics funny in the least, and it's usually a good, long while before somebody coerces me into playing Dominoes again. So that works in my favour, you see. ;)
// posted by Chris @ 1:28 PM 
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