Games!

We've rediscovered games! At a recent family birthday party, a tower of games found its way into the living room where we decided to dust off Scattergories. Hilarity ensued accompanied by shouts of "Hey! You stole my answer. You must have been peeking," usually bellowed at someone far too far away to have seen anything on the other person's sheet of paper without the help of a periscope.

Scattergories was the game of choice in Kootenay House for a while when I was living in residence. We played it endlessly while we should have been studying/writing papers/fudging results on a chem lab. The only additional rules we added were a letter can't be used twice in one game and, after we'd been playing for days, a letter can't be used again on the same list of categories in the same day (consecutive days after we'd been playing for weeks). So, after the birthday party version of the game, I decided I NEEDED my own.

My current game inventory:
Trivial Pursuit
Mindtrap
Wizard
Mastermind
A crib board with no pegs
Yahtzee with no dice
Countless decks of cards

Friday afternoon rolled around and the Lord Brat was out with the boys, so Chandra and I decided to go find Scattergories. The giant, big-box toy store didn't have it and since I live in that part of the world where I'm out of luck unless we wanted to drive 45 minutes, we settled for another game I keep saying I should buy myself - Cranium. The game criteria once I couldn't get the coveted Scattergories decreased from entirely specific to the following:

1. game must not be based on a tv program.

2. reality tv counts as a tv program.
3. game must be playable by candlelight should the power go out (you never know, I might find that I need to move somewhere with unreliable power one day)
4. game must not say ages 8-12. it can say ages 8-adult or all ages or something similar. it also cannot have the word "Junior" in the title.

So Cranium and all its craziness it was. (it does fit into all of those categories)

Yes, that is crazy glue, charades style...

So, after making lots of noise, adapting the minimum four players rules to minimum two players and too much sushi, I still *REALLY* needed my own Scattergories on Saturday. I made the Lord Brat stop at a Zellers on the way to a friend's birthday party and got me my very own Scattergories. I'm happy.

But I don't think the need to own lots of fun games in pretty colourful boxes is going to end there...we'll see.