We had friends over on Sunday of the long week-end, had a non-barbecue barbecue (I did everything in the slow cooker because Angus and Matt were in town but were at double-headers on Saturday and Sunday and I still think I'm going to blow myself up every time I light the barbecue). We played board games, which some of our friends do regularly but I almost never do because I hate most of them. Games that involve strategy, like this one, or this one? Hate them - I suck at them and find them tedious. Card games? Hate them - they make me wonder why everyone doesn't just read more. But I like trivia games and silly word games. My brother-in-law and his wife gave us this game for Christmas.
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This was extra funny, because I had already bought this game for our New Year's Eve party. |
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We didn't even end up breaking open the Drunk one, Smart Ass was such a hit. We played it at Christmas... |
Then the kids kicked us out and played it at Christmas....
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We played it at New Year's.
We played it on the May long week-end.
We played it at other random times in other people's houses. Here we have Smart Ass with a cat's ass.
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Oh wait, actually that's Clue (hated it) with a cat's ass but we played Smart Ass later and the cat's ass probably made an appearance then too.
It's a simple trivia game with a few categories (Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I), a question and then a series of clues that make it successively easier to guess the answer. If you guess wrong once, you're out for the duration of the question. This is why the kids can play it - they just need more clues. You have to strike a balance between guessing too early and waiting too long (three guesses which I have a bigger problem with).
We played Drunk Ass on our last get-together too. It's not actually a drinking game (yeah, okay, it's totally a drinking game, but you don't have to play it that way). The trivia just involves questions about various types of alcohol and cocktails, and then there are sobriety tests that, at this point in our lives, are just as funny to do while sober, or mostly.
So apparently I love board games, as long as they involve trivia. Or booze.
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