CLASSIC BOARD GAMES (PART 3)

Here's some fun for the day…...

TRIVIA:
Who wielded a sword called Excalibur?


BRAIN RIDDLE:
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil?  The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die.

JOKE:
Q:  Where do animals go when their tails fall off?
A:  The retail store.


COMIC FUN:

TRICIA'S TWEET OF THE DAY:
Do we want quick, easy answers…or do we want God's will for our lives?  If we could see the big picture, we'd want the latter

CLASSIC BOARD GAMES (PART 3)

It's time to take another look at some classic board games.  Some of these games are still around and still played today.



1.  CONCENTRATION

I always liked this game.  It is kind of two games in one.    It's a memory game that you pick different cards to get matches.    As  you get more of the cards off the board, more of a rebus puzzle hidden behind the cards is revealed.   A rebus puzzle uses pictures and words to represent a phrase.   This puzzle part was my favorite part of the game.   I would sometimes get the board and just look at the puzzles trying to figure them out and not even play the card part of the game.     This board game became a popular TV game show broadcast off and on from 1958 - 1991.

2.  TWISTER

Twister is played on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor. The mat has four rows of large colored circles on it with a different color in each row: red, yellow, blue and green. A spinner is attached to a square board and is used to determine where the player has to put their hand or foot. The spinner is divided into four labeled sections: right foot left foot, right hand and left hand. Each of those four sections is divided into the four colors (red, yellow, blue and green). After spinning, the combination is called (for example: "right hand yellow") and players must move their matching hand or foot to a circle of the correct color.   If you fall to the ground or your elbow or knee touch the ground you are out.

I was always good at this game growing up because I was limber and flexible, however, I wasn't a touchy/feely person that liked people invading my body space, so that part of the game was a challenge.

3.  MONOPOLY

Nothing says rainy day fun quite like a game that's about paying taxes, going to jail and mortgaging property.   Gee, maybe I should invent a Health Insurance game for some really rip roaring fun.  Har har.    

My bother and I played this game all the time growing up and I always lost.   Later in life my husband and I would play it…..and I always lost.   I'm too much of a play it safe kind of chick.   To win at this game you've got to take risks  (and not mind a 7 hour game)   I used to get really tore up as a kid when I got the "Go To Jail" card.   A few years ago I started playing Monopoly on my iPhone.  I do better on that one.  This is most likely due to the fact that I'm playing it on the 'easy' version.  

One of my favorite Carole Burnett skits is when the Mama, Ed and Eunice characters play Monopoly.   Eunice finally gets Board Walk and Park Place and then Ed and Mama want to quit the game.   

4.  HANDS DOWN

This may not be as well known a game, but it was one of my favorites growing up.   Here's how the game plays.   You get cards and try to make a pair.   When you get a pair you slam your hand on your color 'hand' and yell "HANDS DOWN".   Then everyone else slams theirs.   The person who hits last loses that round and the person that won takes a card from them.   You can also to fake out HANDS DOWNS.   My brother did this all the time and I always fell for it.   He would fake like he was going to hit it, but not really touch it.  Anyone that hits or touches the hands during a fake HANDS DOWN has to give a card to the faker.

5.   VOICE OF THE MUMMY

I always include a somewhat spooky or macabre game in my list because I really loved those.   I was possibly one of the few people playing them.   One of the very cool things about this game is that it 'talked' to you.   This was a pretty swanky deal back in the early 1970's.  

There was a tiny record player inside the sarcophagus.  It would give random messages throughout the game.   For it's day, it was a pretty hi-tech game and I just thought it was so cool.  The object of the game was to make your way through the passages of the mummy's tomb, collecting precious gems as you go, to reach the sarcophagus and retrieve the Great Jewel and return to your starting point to win. But along with the Great Jewel there was also the cursed Cobra headpiece. You did not want to finish with the Cobra or you would be penalized.    The messages from the 'mummy' would be helpful at first, then halfway through the game you would flip the record inside and they would be messages that impeded your way to the end.  

There's another walk down memory lane.  I don't play board games anymore, but growing up they were a large part of my play time and entertainment.  It seems like apps on phones and iPads have replaced board games.   This is sad, because it was so much fun to sit around with family and friends and play games.   Too many people have their noses stuck in their phones these days…..including me.  

Until next time…...

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TRIVIA ANSWER:

King Arthur

BRAIN RIDDLE ANSWER:

Nothing