The Classic Games…

Posted by jepoyzter under Random Post

Isn’t it fun to reminisce those childhood memories?I grew up with my cousins all my childhood days. With my 3 aunt’s children in a 3 townhouse apartment, all in all there were 10 of us. My sister and I lived my grandma and together with my aunt and her 3 daughters before we moved to the next door. It quite fun living with relatives, specially you have lots of cousins to play with. My Lola is quite strict with us, we are not allowed to go outside to play. Whenever she caught us playing outside, she would count to ten and everyone must be inside the house. Or else, she’ll catch you with her long thin bamboo stick that really stings if it hits you. So we more like play in doors. My cousins have several different board games we usually play, and we really did have lots of fun with it. And sometimes, end up fighting when someone cheated or doesn’t agree with the rules of the game.So here are some games we play those days:

1.		Scrabblea word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. More…
2.		MonopolyA board game published by Parker Brothers, an imprint of Hasbro. Players compete to acquire wealth through stylized economic activity involving the buying, rental and trading of properties using play money, as players take turns moving around the board according to the roll of the dice. More…
3.		PictionaryA guessing word game published in 1985. The game is played with teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates’ drawings.Each team moves an object along a track formed by a sequence of squares. Each square has a letter on it. The objective is to reach the end of the track first. More…
4.		CluedoA crime fiction board game originally published by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom in 1948. It was devised by Anthony E. Pratt, a solicitor’s clerk and part-time clown from Birmingham, England. It is now published by the United States game and toy company Hasbro, which acquired its U.S. publisher Parker Brothers as well as Waddingtons.The game is set in a mansion, with the board divided into different rooms. The players each represent a character who is a guest staying at this house, whose owner, Dr. Black (Mr. Boddy in the North American version), has been found murdered. Players attempt to solve the murder. The solution to the murder requires the three components of Suspect, Weapon, and Room. More…
5.		BoggleThe game begins by shaking a covered tray of sixteen cubic dice. Each dice has a different letter printed on each of its sides. The dice settle into a four by four tray such that only the top letter of each cube is visible. After they have settled into the grid, a three-minute timer is started and all players simultaneously begin the main phase of play.Each player searches for words that can be constructed from the letters of sequentially adjacent cubes, where “adjacent” cubes are those horizontally, vertically or diagonally neighboring. Words must be at least three letters long, may include singular and plural (or other derived forms) separately, but may not use the same letter cube more than once per word. Each player records all the words he or she finds by writing on a private sheet of paper. After three minutes have elapsed, all players must stop writing and the game enters the scoring phase. More…
6.		Uno CardsA card game played with a specially printed deck (see Mau Mau for an almost identical game played with normal playing cards). The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins. It is now a Mattel product. The game’s general principles put it into the Crazy Eights family of card games. More… Uno StackoOne of the many variations of the card game Uno. This game is a block-stacking tower game which combines the gameplay of Uno and that of Jenga. There are two versions of the game: the earlier version requires the use of a die, while later versions eliminated the die, making the game play closer to Jenga. More…

How about you? What games you like to play?