Comments on: Tall Drink of Nerd: Bonding over the Board http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board We've got your geek right here Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: AmyQOTWF http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-8036 AmyQOTWF Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:08:55 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-8036 Oh, my family is totally into the cowboy stuff! Thanks for the heads-up on Bang! Oh, my family is totally into the cowboy stuff! Thanks for the heads-up on Bang!

]]> By: AmyQOTWF http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-27060 AmyQOTWF Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:08:00 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-27060 Oh, my family is totally into the cowboy stuff! Thanks for the heads-up on Bang! Oh, my family is totally into the cowboy stuff! Thanks for the heads-up on Bang!

]]> By: AmyQOTWF http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-8035 AmyQOTWF Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:07:49 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-8035 Get out the board games and teach Betty all of CH's weaknesses and then he won't have to let her win. (of course this might be a few years, post Candyland.) I love Mexican Train dominoes! My family plays a card game similar to the one you are talking about with the flash cards, but with real cards and spoons in the middle of the table. You put 4 spoons in the middle if you have 5 people playing, you just keep discarding and passing cards to the person on your left until the first person with 4 of a kind grabs a spoon and then everybody else grabs hell-bent for leather for the remaining spoons. This can get dangerous. Luckily my family doesn't drink. Get out the board games and teach Betty all of CH's weaknesses and then he won't have to let her win. (of course this might be a few years, post Candyland.)

I love Mexican Train dominoes! My family plays a card game similar to the one you are talking about with the flash cards, but with real cards and spoons in the middle of the table. You put 4 spoons in the middle if you have 5 people playing, you just keep discarding and passing cards to the person on your left until the first person with 4 of a kind grabs a spoon and then everybody else grabs hell-bent for leather for the remaining spoons. This can get dangerous. Luckily my family doesn't drink.

]]> By: AmyQOTWF http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-27059 AmyQOTWF Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:07:00 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-27059 Get out the board games and teach Betty all of CH's weaknesses and then he won't have to let her win. (of course this might be a few years, post Candyland.) I love Mexican Train dominoes! My family plays a card game similar to the one you are talking about with the flash cards, but with real cards and spoons in the middle of the table. You put 4 spoons in the middle if you have 5 people playing, you just keep discarding and passing cards to the person on your left until the first person with 4 of a kind grabs a spoon and then everybody else grabs hell-bent for leather for the remaining spoons. This can get dangerous. Luckily my family doesn't drink. Get out the board games and teach Betty all of CH's weaknesses and then he won't have to let her win. (of course this might be a few years, post Candyland.)

I love Mexican Train dominoes! My family plays a card game similar to the one you are talking about with the flash cards, but with real cards and spoons in the middle of the table. You put 4 spoons in the middle if you have 5 people playing, you just keep discarding and passing cards to the person on your left until the first person with 4 of a kind grabs a spoon and then everybody else grabs hell-bent for leather for the remaining spoons. This can get dangerous. Luckily my family doesn't drink.

]]> By: AmyQOTWF http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-8034 AmyQOTWF Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:02:32 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-8034 Oh man, speed scrabble sounds AWESOME and no extra equipment to purchase, even better! Oh and pie sounds good too. Oh man, speed scrabble sounds AWESOME and no extra equipment to purchase, even better! Oh and pie sounds good too.

]]> By: AmyQOTWF http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-27058 AmyQOTWF Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:02:00 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-27058 Oh man, speed scrabble sounds AWESOME and no extra equipment to purchase, even better! Oh and pie sounds good too. Oh man, speed scrabble sounds AWESOME and no extra equipment to purchase, even better! Oh and pie sounds good too.

]]> By: Nicole B http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-8031 Nicole B Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:50 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-8031 We just bought Electronic Monoply to take w/us to my folks' for Thanksgiving :) Monopoly is our old stand-by so we just wanted to try something new. If you like Settlers of Catan then I HIGHLY suggest the game Puerto Rico. It's also only for 4 players however we usually team up if there are more than 4 people that want to play. It does involve a bit of strategy so it's not great for little ones (i.e. it's not as universal as Monopoly): <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-4098399-Puerto/dp/B00008URUT/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1258484534&sr=8-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-4098399-Pu...</a> And I second not letting Betty win...well, maybe you let her win a couple but not all. I was reading somewhere that if kids are never allowed to lose, they get really pissed when they lose with their peers (obviously I'm paraphrasing) :) We just bought Electronic Monoply to take w/us to my folks' for Thanksgiving :) Monopoly is our old stand-by so we just wanted to try something new.

If you like Settlers of Catan then I HIGHLY suggest the game Puerto Rico. It's also only for 4 players however we usually team up if there are more than 4 people that want to play. It does involve a bit of strategy so it's not great for little ones (i.e. it's not as universal as Monopoly): http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-4098399-Pu…

And I second not letting Betty win…well, maybe you let her win a couple but not all. I was reading somewhere that if kids are never allowed to lose, they get really pissed when they lose with their peers (obviously I'm paraphrasing) :)

]]> By: Nicole B http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-27057 Nicole B Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:07:00 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-27057 We just bought Electronic Monoply to take w/us to my folks' for Thanksgiving :) Monopoly is our old stand-by so we just wanted to try something new. If you like Settlers of Catan then I HIGHLY suggest the game Puerto Rico. It's also only for 4 players however we usually team up if there are more than 4 people that want to play. It does involve a bit of strategy so it's not great for little ones (i.e. it's not as universal as Monopoly): <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-4098399-Puerto/dp/B00008URUT/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1258484534&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-4098399-Pu...</a> And I second not letting Betty win...well, maybe you let her win a couple but not all. I was reading somewhere that if kids are never allowed to lose, they get really pissed when they lose with their peers (obviously I'm paraphrasing) :) We just bought Electronic Monoply to take w/us to my folks' for Thanksgiving :) Monopoly is our old stand-by so we just wanted to try something new.

If you like Settlers of Catan then I HIGHLY suggest the game Puerto Rico. It's also only for 4 players however we usually team up if there are more than 4 people that want to play. It does involve a bit of strategy so it's not great for little ones (i.e. it's not as universal as Monopoly): http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-4098399-Pu…

And I second not letting Betty win…well, maybe you let her win a couple but not all. I was reading somewhere that if kids are never allowed to lose, they get really pissed when they lose with their peers (obviously I'm paraphrasing) :)

]]> By: (Thought) Chuck http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-8030 (Thought) Chuck Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:39:41 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-8030 My brother turned me on to "Settlers of Catan" and that's a really fun one - too bad it's only good for 4 players (6 with the expansion set.) Another one we played this weekend which we enjoyed a lot was "Bang" - it's a spaghetti western card game where outlaws and renegades try to shoot the sherrif and vice versa. We played with about 10 people and it was hysterical. We also played a farming strategy game called "Agricola" which was cute. Another fun one that is similar is "Guillotine" - a card game where you collect nobles from a line of people on their way to be executed. You can play cards that screw other players over, re-order the line, etc. And for all you theatre geeks out there there is "Shakespeare," where you go around collecting props, actors, etc. to produce a play by the Bard - the game itself is kinda standard, but the trivia questions are really fun (easy, medium and hard.) My brother turned me on to "Settlers of Catan" and that's a really fun one – too bad it's only good for 4 players (6 with the expansion set.) Another one we played this weekend which we enjoyed a lot was "Bang" – it's a spaghetti western card game where outlaws and renegades try to shoot the sherrif and vice versa. We played with about 10 people and it was hysterical. We also played a farming strategy game called "Agricola" which was cute. Another fun one that is similar is "Guillotine" – a card game where you collect nobles from a line of people on their way to be executed. You can play cards that screw other players over, re-order the line, etc. And for all you theatre geeks out there there is "Shakespeare," where you go around collecting props, actors, etc. to produce a play by the Bard – the game itself is kinda standard, but the trivia questions are really fun (easy, medium and hard.)

]]> By: (Thought) Chuck http://fierceandnerdy.com/tall-drink-of-nerd-bonding-over-the-board/comment-page-1#comment-27056 (Thought) Chuck Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:39:00 +0000 http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=11518#comment-27056 My brother turned me on to "Settlers of Catan" and that's a really fun one - too bad it's only good for 4 players (6 with the expansion set.) Another one we played this weekend which we enjoyed a lot was "Bang" - it's a spaghetti western card game where outlaws and renegades try to shoot the sherrif and vice versa. We played with about 10 people and it was hysterical. We also played a farming strategy game called "Agricola" which was cute. Another fun one that is similar is "Guillotine" - a card game where you collect nobles from a line of people on their way to be executed. You can play cards that screw other players over, re-order the line, etc. And for all you theatre geeks out there there is "Shakespeare," where you go around collecting props, actors, etc. to produce a play by the Bard - the game itself is kinda standard, but the trivia questions are really fun (easy, medium and hard.) My brother turned me on to "Settlers of Catan" and that's a really fun one – too bad it's only good for 4 players (6 with the expansion set.) Another one we played this weekend which we enjoyed a lot was "Bang" – it's a spaghetti western card game where outlaws and renegades try to shoot the sherrif and vice versa. We played with about 10 people and it was hysterical. We also played a farming strategy game called "Agricola" which was cute. Another fun one that is similar is "Guillotine" – a card game where you collect nobles from a line of people on their way to be executed. You can play cards that screw other players over, re-order the line, etc. And for all you theatre geeks out there there is "Shakespeare," where you go around collecting props, actors, etc. to produce a play by the Bard – the game itself is kinda standard, but the trivia questions are really fun (easy, medium and hard.)

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