Board/Card Games

[Norah]

I won a grand on a scratch ticket once in the mid aughts.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

I won a grand on a scratch ticket once in the mid aughts.

That's quite the haul

[Norah]

did you spend it on pearl jam?

straight up my nose

[wease]

did you spend it on pearl jam?

straight up my nose

Made lots of money, just how much, I don’t know
But most of the money, I done stuck up my nose

[doug rr]

I won a game of crib against my wife tonight for probably the first time in a few years...feeling a bt cocky and poured a drink

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I am playing poker right now. On the internet.

[doug rr]

I am playing poker right now. On the internet.

shirtless?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I am playing poker right now. On the internet.

shirtless?

Nah too cold for that.

[doug rr]

my crib game has gone to shi*t...my wife has skunked me 4 out of the last 6 games

[Bammer]

my crib game has gone to shi*t...my wife has skunked me 4 out of the last 6 games

Yeah man it can really snowball on you

[Ello Sailor]

So my wife and I got a chess clock app, so we can play timed games. It's a whole new dimension of chess! Where before my chess matches had always been long, languid affairs, having a fixed amount of time to get through a match makes everything move faster, feel more urgent, and we actually get some laughs out of what has always been a very stoic game. Of course I'd seen people play with timers before, but didn't understand how it worked until now: We have our matches currently set for seven minutes, which means we each get a seven minute allotment of time to make as many moves as we want/need -- the time carries over from one move to the next. So if you run out of time while your opponent still has some left, you lose.

Adorable. Do you think you could beat Mickey and/or Argo?

[Simple Torture]

Does anyone on RM collect or play Magic The Gathering? If yes, can you tell me if there’s any way to affordably get into it?

I’m specifically interested in the Lord of the Ring set that came out earlier this year and the Fallout series coming next year. I used to collect Star Wars CCG in middle school (still upset that I sold them all about 10 years ago), and I loved buying a few boosters every couple of weeks and adding to my collection that way, and then adding a collector’s box maybe once or twice a year. But I can’t seem to find the LOTR stuff anywhere locally (although TBF I haven’t gone to any gaming stores, which is probably the answer) and everything online appears to be $100+ boxes). Ideas?

[Vitalogist]

Any DnD fans around here? My dungeon master days are gone but I had a lot of fun with it years ago.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

Anyone play Uno? Looking to get into this but not sure where to start.

Nice try, draw 4.

[Simple Torture]

Does anyone on RM collect or play Magic The Gathering? If yes, can you tell me if there’s any way to affordably get into it?

I’m specifically interested in the Lord of the Ring set that came out earlier this year and the Fallout series coming next year. I used to collect Star Wars CCG in middle school (still upset that I sold them all about 10 years ago), and I loved buying a few boosters every couple of weeks and adding to my collection that way, and then adding a collector’s box maybe once or twice a year. But I can’t seem to find the LOTR stuff anywhere locally (although TBF I haven’t gone to any gaming stores, which is probably the answer) and everything online appears to be $100+ boxes). Ideas?

Poked around of my own and ordered a few boosters to start from some random online site. Will report back when I’m broke.

[Bammer]

Anyone play Uno? Looking to get into this but not sure where to start.

Maybe there’s more to Uno than meets the eye - but my instinct here is that you’re way overthinking this. Just play Uno man and get on with it.

[blueviper]

Anyone play Uno? Looking to get into this but not sure where to start.

I know you’re joking but my daughter bought Uno Flip and it spices up the vanilla game a bit