This has ZERO to do with fandom, but...

[themostepotente]

A friend and I were just discussing this over IM. What are your top ten tabletop games?

10.) Life; So like there's me in my pink plastic car (excuse me, cars plural) filled with kids heading into the poor house. WTF -- can I fucking spin again?

9.) Operation; The ONLY explanation for my having fucked up nerves. Buzzzzzz!

8.) Uno; Draw four MOTHERFUCKAH!

7.) Mille Bournes; It's French. It makes no fucking sense until you've read the directions FIVE times. What's not to love?

6.) Monopoly (LotR edition); Because who wouldn't want to own Rivendell and Lothlorien?

5.) Battleship; I totally used to cheat and move my ships :P

4.) Clue (Too bad there was no HP edition); Snape did it in the Potions lab...with Harry!

3.) Stratego; Fuck chess! I'll bet Ron would be good at this.

2.) Trivial Pursuit; 80's edition fersure! Like totally.

1.) Candyland; Simplistic as fuck but still so cool.

--P

Comments

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

Fuckin' Chutes Snakes Chutes and Ladders, man!

Oh and totally Risk because it's fun to see who will get all wanky and mess up the board.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I forgot Chutes and Ladders!

[florahart]

Yeah, Chutes and Ladders, and also, Pictionary. Dude, I can't draw? But I rock at getting people to guess my word in this game.

And Trivial Pursuit, yes, though the husband won't play with me.

Same problem: Scrabble. Husband won't play me *or* Kid One.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

OH I FORGOT! <33333 Pictionary. :D

Now there should be an HP version of THAT.

[deirdre-riordan.livejournal.com]

Dude. Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble are so tied for my #1. Gee, can you tell I'm a nerd? ;P I love any trivia or word game, really. Teams of Enemies, Balderdash (I'm so leet at sounding like a dictionary), Boggle, etc. Yum.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Boggle is good. And Yahtzee!

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

I'm pro-Scrabble. It's the only game I'm seriously any good at - I used to have a 5 year Monopoly champion streak, but then I met my boyfriend. Bastard.

I'm awful at Trivial Pursuit, but excellent at the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire board game. And PC game. And DVD-based game. Yeah, we're fond of pop trivia in this house.

I love Uno too, and Life. I've only played Life once, but I had the best time. I should really track that down.

And I don't have the mentality for chess, apparently. All attempts to teach me have failed.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I love Uno too, and Life. I've only played Life once, but I had the best time. I should really track that down.

It would be nothing for me to send you one. Say in exchange for some Tim Tams :-)

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Slash pictionary. That's when a bunch of slashers write down all sorts of random things on torn up slips of paper, which may or may not be slashy, then mixes them up, goes out and has lunch and maybe a drink or two, comes back having forgotten all the things they wrote down, then draws them on butcher's paper with crayons or pens you steal from hotels. Non competative - no one keeps score. Everyone laughs until they pee a little. Things like 'brutal sodomy' are compulsory.

[deirdre-riordan.livejournal.com]

*loves you* This sounds like the best thing since slash itself. *laments lack of RL slasher friends*

[fearisthmndkilr.livejournal.com]

:O

I forgot I made that icon!

Hmmm games?

Star Wars Trivial Pursuit.

Of course my ex boyfriend kicked my ass in it. But I knew ONE THING he didn't.


...the color of Jabba the Hutt's eyes. :P

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Your icons kick ass!

'Beware the Bow' will be forever immortalized.

Hmm, what color are Jabba's eyes? Yellow?

[roitelet.livejournal.com]

Scrabble. I ALWAYS win. And now there's SuperScrabble, with quadruple scores. And, like, 17 Qs and Xs.
Payday! It's got online auctions for ridiculous junk you don't need, just like real life!

"Grandmother comes to visit. Spend $600 extra dollars on groceries." WTF, Grandma? Is it some kind of metabolic disorder??!

And you can play the lottery, and you get lots of bills in the mail, and you can go neck-deep into debt! How can you not love that?!

Pente. It's so ancient and stuff. And harder than fuck to get good at.
Milles Bourne Coup fourre, fucker! *maniacal laughter*
Parcheesi.You can cause a HUGE-ass pileup if you decide not to move your roadblock for awhile. This makes people very angry. aaahahaha!!!
Sequence.I don't know, I just think it's cool that all those playing cards are printed out on the board. And I love poker chips.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I forgot about Payday. Too much like real life though :P

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* You know you're a nerd when you read 'tabletop' and immediately start ticking off things like 'D&D' 'Dragonlance' 'White Wolf' and the liks.

[puppy-tenchan.livejournal.com]

>_>; They are not tabletops. They are Pen&Paper. I don't like tabletops. (Happily ignore the intended D&D 3rd fighting system.)

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[eponis.livejournal.com]

Hee.

Scrabble, Citadels (a.k.a. Ohne Furcht Und Adel), Condottieri, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Lord of the Rings board game (the German one), Princes of Florence, Balderdash, Settlers of Catan, and . . . um . . . Go.

[shagsthedustmop.livejournal.com]

Sounds like we have some people to convert. Lots of answers to this post and only two of us mentioning any non-mass market stuff...

[puppy-tenchan.livejournal.com]

x_x Operation. I learned to hate that game when my little nieces got it. They were still too small for such fine tuned movements and the room was constantly filled with BUZZZZZZZ. I think they liked doing that.

UNO is most fun when played with speed and additional rules for each number. Chaos, but fun.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Those little pieces were hard to keep track of.

[thistlefinch.livejournal.com]

It's all about SCRABBLE.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

My words were always questioned :P

[ceilidh]

Uno is the BEST. Hubby put a HP Uno game in my stocking at Xmas. :)) My brother and I survived many a boring camping trip with my parents with Uno and Mille Bornes to keep us from going psycho. :))

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Did you understand Mille Bournes right off the bat?

[abremaline.livejournal.com]

4.) Clue (Too bad there was no HP edition); Snape did it in the Potions lab...with Harry!

And the dildo looking candlestick from the classic edition.

Nightmare was always a classic. More coffee table though because it needs the video player. But still.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Nightmare was always a classic. More coffee table though because it needs the video player. But still.

Murder Mystery-ish VCR game?

[underlucius.livejournal.com]

1. Scrabble
2. Totopoly (horse racing game, like monopoly)
3. Trivial Pursuit, '80's version. (the world has completely changed - damn those geography questions.
4. Cluedo (English name) But yes!! HP version needed!
5. Pit. (if you havent played this, i cant describe it. hilarious)
6. Mousetrap!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

They had Mousetrap in England?

And of course you know, the BEST music of the 80's came from the English.

[jenna-thorn.livejournal.com]

My family never got into them all that much, though I was introduced to the five day running Risk games in college, but my m-i-l kept all the board games from when my husband and his sister were ten and we spent this past Christmas playing Aggravation, and Chinese Checkers and Moustrap and Candyland with a set so old that the cards are the texture of felt.

Have you ever played Mousetrap with a three year old? When the game is twenty years old? And is missing pieces? I deserve some kind of award for jury-rigging three missing pieces with four christmas cards, embroidery floss, and cellophane tape.

That being said...Aggravation is right up there with Uno for unearthing hidden competitive streaks.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Aggravation? Like Trouble and Headache, right?

Pop-o-matic!

[shaldana.livejournal.com]

Milles Bournes
PIT! Cripes, used to go to a religious private school, cards were banned. We'd play this in the storage closet, flashlights only. It's IMPOSSIBLE to play that game without making a racket, so it added so much to it to play quietly. We only got busted once. *strut*
Moolah - really hard to find game, absolutely fun as hell.
Mad Magazine Game: Where else can you play a game that says if you're poor, switch your places with the dude who's winning.?
Life - only place I'd allow myself to have babies, though babies for profit is a novel idea.
Farming game - grow your crops and lose everything anyway. Beautiful. Damn government!
Stock Ticker
Balderdash - make up definitions to really weird words, then convince people yours is the real definition.

TOO many games! We lived in the mountains, no TV when I was a kid. We had scads of games, still do.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Life - only place I'd allow myself to have babies, though babies for profit is a novel idea.

Gotta love those pink and blue plastic pegs.

Congratulations! Twin girls!

Um, could you please hand me another car?

[escapisms.livejournal.com]

Back to the Farm! Back to the Farm!! Best board game EVER and from like... 1960-something I think. It's sooo great.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

That sounds vaguely familiar. You have this, and it's still in playable condition? Wow!

[ladyflowdi.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Scrabble, Clue (especially the Simpsons edition we've got) and Atmosphere. Woo!

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Lotta Scrabblers in this thread :-)

[shagsthedustmop.livejournal.com]

1) Age of Steam
2) Funkenschlag (original version, the new one is good too)
3) 1870 (or 2038, or 1830...)
4) Iron Dragon
5) Chinatown
6) Puerto Rico
7) Reef Encounter
8) Carcassonne (w/ expansions)
9) Ticket To Ride
10) Tigris & Euphrates

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I have not heard of one of these games, dear.

[fiendling.livejournal.com]

scattergories and scrutineyes are my favorite games :D

especially scrutineyes - you had these mats of art (really nice art) and you would pick a letter and had a certain amount of time to make a list of everything you can find in that picture with that letter... err.. it was really fun ): this one mat had a hermaphrodite on it and it was like.. my first experience with an image of a hermaphrodite ahahaha. i remember it well

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

A hermaphodite? Was it detailed? And what was the age range of this game? *chuckles*

[starrysummer.livejournal.com]

I get INCREDIBLY frustrated by any game where luck has a significant effect on the outcome. So all that stuff where you roll the dice and make your way across the board-- out. Anything where it's about what card s you get dealt-- no way.

Personally, I like Boggle because I destroy the competition. But Trivial Persuit, Taboo, Scattergories (which I've never owned, but was fun the few times I played)-- those are all fun. I like talky games. I like to talk.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I've been cursed by the Dice Gods now for a LONG time :P

[alasandalack.livejournal.com]

scattergories. i named my turtle after it.

Magic, the Geeky Card Game.

parcheesi!

anything else makes me spit. i'm a terrible loser.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

anything else makes me spit. i'm a terrible loser.

Ha -- I have a saying.

Second place just means you are the first loser.

I hate losing too. I'm terrible. I play to win.

[bloody-american.livejournal.com]

#4, you should make one and sell them on ebay. Haha. I know people who would be interested in those, I think. ;D

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Makes sense, doesn't it?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_riz/]

Clue (Too bad there was no HP edition); Snape did it in the Potions lab...with Harry!

Wow, that IS a damn shame.

I have to say: LOTR Risk is the greatest thing ever. You can't play too often cos it takes forever, not exactly a 'light' game, but the quoting possibilities never. stop. being. funny.

Also, Taboo!