Friday Five: Games People Play

Posted May 8th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd

Just in time to save me from coming up with original content again…it’s the Friday Five! And it’s about games! I love games! Shall we play?

1. What’s your favorite card game?

I haven’t played cards in years but I have fond memories of summer-long rummy tournaments as a kid. We used to keep a rolling tally all summer long. Whoever was on top at the end of August, won. It got pretty competitive.

Hm. I think I remember this. Will have to verify it with Mom&John. If not, it’s a great idea.

2. What’s your favorite roll-the-dice-and-move game?

Since everyone stopped playing Disney Trivial Pursuit with me about a week after we got the game, I’ll say Monopoly. Sometimes our games would go on for days as a kid. I’d love watching people go cuckoo over getting Boardwalk and Park Place as I slowly picked up the side with the green/orange properties. I’d also add Mediterranean and Baltic and smirk as people withered into bankruptcy.

Do you know there is an electronic banking version of Monopoly out there now that do all the counting and calculations for you? That’s crazy. I learned a lot of math through Monopoly, including figuring out the 10% un-mortgage fee.

3. What’s your favorite playground game?
I was a very shy kid so I watched a lot more games than I played. I liked watching a game called Suicide that the boys played. Bunch of kids with a tennis ball hurl the ball at the wall at high speeds. Whoever caught the ball as it bounced back would throw it back at the wall. Because of the speed and weirdness of the bounces, sometimes it’d be hard to catch. If you dropped the ball after touching it, another player could get the ball and hurl it at you as hard as they could. Your goal was to run to the wall, touch it and yell “Suicide!” before the ball hit you.

The teachers’ aides HATED the game, so they’d just chat on the other side of the building and not watch as we carried our injured & welted companions to a safe spot on the grass.

4. What’s your favorite party game?
If it’s smallish, I like Scrabble. If it’s larger, I like Pictionary or Win. Lose, or Draw. Loved watching the little hourglass empty out into nothing as the other side flounders to find the correct word.

We are a competitive family. Seriously, we’d compete on 1,000 piece puzzles to see who got the most pieces placed. Someday I will have a domicile large enough again to have a 1,000 piece puzzle out every summer. We’re renewing the lease here for another year so maybe the summer of 2010…?

5. What’s your favorite computer game?
Currently, it’s World of Warcraft. I write a blog about it for the Courier-Post, in case you couldn’t tell from the multiple links on this page. Offline…Snood is an old, old friend of mine. So old that it’s registered under the other last name I sported. I can lose hours of my life launching the little happy faces across the screen.

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Tonight I’m heading out to meet up with a bunch of my friends from high school. I’m so excited. We did this before and I had such a good time catching up. We’re meeting at 7:30 so I think I’ll have a bit of time to kill after work. I’m thinking bookstore.

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