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Post by Techguy on Dec 21, 2006 0:36:26 GMT -5
Don't worry Sirenna, NikkiGreen isn't encouraging me. I DON'T own an NHL Monopoly game, just the classic traditional one. Some things should be kept separate. Is nothing sacred?
As for Risk, I enjoyed it a lot when I was younger, but certainly not since my military service time. Somehow I just can't muster any enthusiasm for war games and world domination.
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Post by Sirenna on Dec 21, 2006 0:43:55 GMT -5
Techguy: You still up?
I'm glad you see the distinction between classic NHL and the NHL monopoly game. It escapes me however.
Other games I enjoyed as a kid were the perrenial Clue, (why I'm here today!) Mastermind, a British board game based on a British quiz show and that's it.
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Post by Techguy on Dec 21, 2006 1:24:53 GMT -5
Sirenna, the classic traditional game I mention in my previous post is Monopoly where you buy real estate, utilities, railroads, etc. The NHL version involves buying teams and making trades. For that kind of action, that's what fantasy leagues are for. My idea of classic NHL is (ideally) attending games in person, or watching games involving divisional or conference rivals on TV. That's what Center Ice is for.
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Post by SarahIvy on Dec 21, 2006 4:30:18 GMT -5
Ooooh, Monopoly, a game dear to my heart! By far my favorite board game. I don't think I've ever NOT known Monopoly....I grew up from a very young age playing on my Nana's old board. I'm not sure of the year, but let's just say it's "vintage" It's original box is long gone, and hilariously, my grandmother kept it in a fancy old lingerie box that happened to be the perfect size. All the buildings are made from solid wood and the hotels have gold lettering on them. I too am keen on the Scottie dog, but the shoe will do in a pinch. My goal is always to be a slum lord. Give me the purples and the periwinkles and I will build them up and mow you down. My husband and I have a normal board, and someone gave us a Millenium board....it's horrible. We played on it while the power was out last week and aside from it being blindingly ugly, I managed to go to jail 6 times (we decided I must have been running a meth lab, this is rural Oregon after all ). I also love Clue, Battleship, and good old fashioned double solitaire (my husband fears my prowess in the latter...I tend to slap hands, thump the table and cuss great deal).
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Post by member727 on Dec 21, 2006 4:49:09 GMT -5
As a Running Dog Capitalist, I always preferred the Man-on-a-Horse - all the better to ride roughshod over the urban proletariat Got my first set for my tenth xmas, I believe. I've not played much lately, though; it's too involved for a quick game. I had much more fun with Cluedo (as it's know over here).
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Post by Sirenna on Dec 21, 2006 6:40:47 GMT -5
What was the boot?!
I read somewhere that each play piece had a meaning tied to the fall of the stock markets and the consequent depression.
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Post by member727 on Dec 21, 2006 6:50:07 GMT -5
Possibly symbolising pulling oneself up by the bootstraps?
The iron has me stumped, though :?
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Post by NikkiGreen on Dec 21, 2006 16:02:42 GMT -5
Apparently, the Monoply pieces simply signified items found in American households.
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Post by Sirenna on Dec 21, 2006 17:55:31 GMT -5
Techguy: you would have a blast hanging out with the guys I know, especially at work. It's all they talk about - fantasy trades and how much they're winning or losing in the pool. Household items? Is that all? How disappointing. They just seem like such odd items to be purely random and I could have sworn I read somewhere... nope, I've just been watching too much LO-chi. I know there was a copyright battle in the 1930s over the game. It was settled and Hasbro won and put it back on the market using the die-casts and I thought I read somewhere that, before all that happened, the Scottie was modelled after a president's dog; the iron was representative of the industrial revolution - steel industry; the boot was the worker or something along those lines. But maybe that is just too much boring subtext. I'll go with a cigar being a cigar in this one.
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Post by NikkiGreen on Dec 21, 2006 19:32:28 GMT -5
Sorry to disappoint you, Sirenna.
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Post by Metella on Dec 21, 2006 20:59:25 GMT -5
Good subject ! I also do not remember being introduced to Monopoly - it always just ....... was
I find I get bored after a while, I like to declare I have lost when all my money is gone and Mr. M wants to play until all is lost - so I just sigh and let it all drag out. He plays on his NASCAR version - which the community chest & such are cleverly worded.
My favorite board game is chess - it is always different, you control the pace & it goes on to a good and complete ending. My Dad was a Yatzee freak.
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Post by member727 on Dec 21, 2006 22:19:45 GMT -5
Tried playing Prussian Chess? Two players, two boards, neither can see the other's pieces. A referee has to check which moves are legal and which aren't.
I loved chess, though I was never any good at it.
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Post by member727 on Dec 22, 2006 7:28:29 GMT -5
Apparently it was used to train Prussian staff officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The idea is, in a real military campaign you'd most likely have no idea where your enemy's forces are, so you have to get used to juggling insane amounts of variables in your head. Do you mean Gorillaz? Featuring... the-guy-from-Radiohead, and friends? I like some of their stuff, but some of it is also a bit meh
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Post by madger on Dec 22, 2006 10:38:54 GMT -5
Here I'm going to have to tell my poor little matchstick girl story: Being the youngest of eight most of my stuff was hand-me-down but I was never much for anything that remotely involved competition, since my dear sibs would bully me and they cheated too. But in my late teens-early twenties my friends and I really got into Parcheesi, we would have all day bouts. My parents were big Scrabble players, it was fun to watch them, they both would make-up words, but my Mom got caught less, she was a better liar than my Dad and could convince you the sky was green.
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Post by member727 on Dec 23, 2006 3:10:07 GMT -5
Cool. I liked them when they first came out, and I still enjoy Clint Eastwood and the next single (so much I don't even remember the name!), but lost interest after that. I tend to be a bit elitist when it comes to music, to be honest
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