Board Games

I may have mentioned it a time or two but just in case you have forgotten, I love me some board games.  I do. I really do.  I have a load of board games.  I think you could say I have a plethora of board games.  Do you think I could just say games and not stick the "board" in front of it any more?

I have probably 6 or 8 Monopoly games, all different ones.  I even have the one I received as a birthday gift when I was probably 11 or 12.  I also have my original Life game, Clue and my Twister.  Did you know Life is different now?  In mine you are trying your best to get to Millionaire Acres and NOT the Poor Farm.  I don't think there is a Poor Farm on the current one.  So why exactly are you trying really hard if there is no bad consequence?  Interesting, is what that is.

I also have many Trivial Pursuit games.  And several extra boxes of cards to use with the original Genus game board, that are all music or t.v. shows or 80's trivia.

I have Scrabble in English and Spanish.  I have several Pass the Pigs games, and Yahtzee, Uno and Skip-Bo like I was trying to corner the market.  I don't know exactly how that happened.  My collection includes several sets of dominos that are regular, traditional double-6 sets and one cool one that is double-12 for playing Chicken Tracks.  That one is a ton of fun.

One of my favorite old-school game is called Hedbanz.

This is hilarious and way too much fun when you have a big group playing.

I have told you before about my Mah Jongg playing.  I play twice a month and as a matter of fact, I am playing tonight!

Last year for Christmas my daughter the lovely and talented Miss Rachel Pie bought us a game as a family gift called Wise and Otherwise.  It looks like this:

This game is a real hoot!  It's very much like Balderdash, in case you are familiar with that one.

We have a game we received as a gift way back in the Dark Ages when we were first married called 221B Baker St.  That's Sherlock Holmes' address, by the by.  It is a whole lot like a grown-up version of Clue.  Instead of going around a house room to room, you go around London to the Tobaccanist, the Apothecary, Library, etc.  

In addition to board games, I also like jigsaw puzzles.  And we have tons of these things.  You would think I would have caught on years ago that no one really likes to work on the damn things but me. But no, I still drag one out every holiday season and set up a table by the Christmas tree and play Christmas carols and hope people will join me.  Not so much.

I love to play card games too.  When Rachel Pie is home we have a running gin tournament and sometimes will stay up till 2 or 3 a.m. playing cards.

Anyone have any board games they can recommend?  Any games bring back fun memories for you?  Any holiday traditions that include games or puzzles?  

Lemme hear from you!  I am always on the lookout for a new game!