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I just read the current essay concerning board games and card games, and I had to add one of the best games I've played in a very long time. The game is called Apples To Apples and is a card game. Each player is dealt five "subject" cards with various different subjects. Then, rotating turns, a player takes a description card. The description card could read: "Exciting". The rest of the players pick one of their subject cards and lay them face down. The player with the description card reads the subject cards, and without knowing who played each card pick the one they feel that best applies. Then whoever played the subject card gets the description card. What makes this such a great game is that the subject cards thrown out for "Exciting" could be "Firefighters", "Tofu", "My Family", "The Depression", etc. It gets to be pretty funny when you have absolutely no subject cards that match the description cards. You really have to try to anticipate how each player thinks and play your cards accordingly.
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Apples to Apples is one of Hatrack's favorite games. It might even be the top Hatrack game, although I'd wager that it's really only beloved by a core group of about five or six people.
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Thanks for the welcome. I've always been lurking, just never really felt like posting.
Apples to Apples has a cult-like following. Those who've played it are devotees, actively trying to entice others into playing.
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I haven't ever played Carcassone and it sounds like a blast. I need to give it to someone as a present so we can play it. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Tom, that is a much better idea. I haven't met any of the midwesterners, except for Hobbes, and he doesn't really count cause he's from Colorado!! Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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I *love* apples to apples. I use it in class as a vocabulary expansion game and my students are as addicted as I am.
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I like the bluffing games, like Malarky or Balderdash.
We played Malarky with a group of my sister's biochem friends, and for almost every question, at least one person knew the answer. Sometimes all of us did. And of course, we had lovely arguments about the answer on the card being wrong.
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Well, Carrie, I think there's actually a Midwest gathering happening over a weekend in February. It's a girls-only event, so you probably won't see me there, but you would get to meet a whole heck of a lot of the coolest people in the Midwest, including my wife, Sara, Dana, etc. If you're interested, I'll bump the appropriate threads.
Otherwise, while I can't think of any immediate get-togethers planned, we can fairly easily organize a spontaneous get-together by just inviting Dan, Julie, and Sara out to dinner. And if we're feeling ambitious, maybe one of us could grab Bernard, assuming he's back in Beloit. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Oh wow!! You should get your hands on it, or find someone that owns it. It's really simple and really fun!!
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