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.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I love Apples to Apples!! I actually didn't play it until I heard of it here on Hatrack where it's all the rage.
I'd really like to try some of those other games that he mentioned. This is one topic about which OSC and I seem to always have the same opinion.
By the way, welcome to the board TheHumanTarget! Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
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.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
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.
Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
I believe that I've found my people.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
The other top Hatrack games, based solely upon my observations at gatherings:
Settlers of Catan Carcassonne Scrabble Trivial Pursuit Dungeons & Dragons Munchkin Fluxx
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
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. Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
I'm familiar with Fluxx, the rest remain a mystery (and in one case an enigma - D&D) to me.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Alternately, Narnia, you could come to a big Hatrack gathering in Wisconsin. Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
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!! Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I was first exposed to Apples to Apples at the Hatrack gathering of KamaCon. Totally hooked. We love playing it all the time now.
... even if Ivygirl always beats all of us at it.
Farmgirl
Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :
I love Apples to Apples.
I have the wood box set and it's expansion.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
No Euchre fans?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Tom, you left out Chrononauts and Cranium.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I *love* apples to apples. I use it in class as a vocabulary expansion game and my students are as addicted as I am.
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
quote: although I'd wager that it's really only beloved by a core group of about five or six people.
I thought there was only a core group of about five or six people on Hatrack--all with different screen names.....
You mean there is more of us?
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Rook!
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote:Alternately, Narnia, you could come to a big Hatrack gathering in Wisconsin.
Yeah! When? Let's do it! I actually want to make one of these things Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
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.
Dagonee
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
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. Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Malarky is evil. It causes fights.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I've never even heard of Apples to Apples!
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
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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