Games!

[rhu]

Last night I met mabfan and gnomi at the Card Games night sponsored by Eureka! Games and Puzzles at the Brookline Marriott. It was fun; I learned a few new games.

After half a hand of Quiddler all three of us were hooked. NPL people, if you haven't heard of this (I hadn't), check it out!

Killer Bunnies (no link on their site) felt overly complex to me; however someone told me that there's a more straightforward version called Kinder Bunnies that's a lot of fun (and age-appropriate for a six-year-old). I'll have to look for that.

There was a game whose name I unfortunately didn't catch, and which I can't find on their website, in which the goal is to swap cards until you can build a picture of your particular monster. That looked cool for the kids.

I played a round of cribbage. Ah, the classics.

Back at the store, not only did I buy Quiddler, I also treated myself to Pick Two, which bills itself as The Definitive Crossword Game. A misleading subhead, since definitions are not involved, but it looks like a rapid-play tile-based crossing-words game and, more importantly, it looks like a lot of fun. So that's my reward for Sunday's Times crossword.

Comments

[ericberlin.livejournal.com]

I once played Pick Two in a group that included Henry Hook. The object of the game, for those of you who don't know it, is to arrange your small pool of tiles into a criss-cross grid, after which you call out "Pick Two," thus forcing everybody (including yourself) to pick two new letter tiles. Those new tiles must be incorporated into your already existing criss-cross grid, even if it means breaking the whole thing down and starting over. And at any moment, somebody else might call out "Pick Two," forcing still more tiles into your hand.

Here is a brief transcription of my round with Henry Hook:

Henry: "Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Pick Two. Done."

We decided to play something else after that.

[ennienyc.livejournal.com]

I came over here to make exactly the same comment.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

It was a lot of fun! We should do it again sometime.

Killer bunnies

[ricedog.livejournal.com]

Is this (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3699) the game?

Re: Killer bunnies

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's the one.