[whereagles]

I played chess when I was younger. Got to national championships, but never won

In the net I play Diablo II on week-ends. Whacking monsters is good for aleviating stress... lol.

[pclayton]

Didn't see this thread before.

I was a fair junior chess player before bridge. More recently, the only thing that has occupies my time is crosswords. I can't touch the NYT, but I can usually get the LA Times done in about 2 hours. We enjoy scrabble too.

Sudoku is a waste of time for me, but Kimi loves them.

[mike777]

pclayton, on Jul 5 2006, 09:13 AM, said:

Didn't see this thread before.

I was a fair junior chess player before bridge. More recently, the only thing that has occupies my time is crosswords. I can't touch the NYT, but I can usually get the LA Times done in about 2 hours. We enjoy scrabble too.

Sudoku is a waste of time for me, but Kimi loves them.

See the movie Wordplay, a wonderful movie....4 stars....

[Badmonster]

Go sounds really interesting. I'm afraid it might be too visual for me. I'd like to learn to play majong.

I love board games. My favorite is Illuminati.

[mycroft]

Plug for Cheapass Games. They are at least always worth the price, sometimes many times over - and seriously weird.

Advanced Squad Leader - the King of military simulations. I always laugh when people tell me the Laws of Bridge are too difficult for players to be expected to understand - the FLB fits quite nicely into the *index* of ASL. Incredibly addictive - if a bit expensive.

Fluxx for fun. Illuminati, Cosmic Encounter (the Mayfair edition, not the lobotomized (but pretty) version put out by Hasbro), Settlers for serious multi-player play.

Paranoia and Munchkin if you used to be a RPG player. Chez Geek if you ever went to University.

And yeah, Diablo II and Master of Orion are timesinks. But fun.
Michael.

[whereagles]

mycroft, on Jul 5 2006, 04:33 PM, said:

And yeah, Diablo II and Master of Orion are timesinks. But fun.

Master of Orion is great, but Master of Magic has gotta be the most fantastic fantasy-strategy game ever.

I still play it after 12 years!!!!!!

[Elianna]

pclayton, on Jul 5 2006, 06:13 AM, said:

Sudoku is a waste of time for me, but Kimi loves them.

I dislike Sudoku, too. I really like Cross sums, though, I find them quite addictive.

I used to be really into crosswords puzzles, but I stopped a while ago. I was thinking of starting again after I saw "Wordplay"

[Gerben42]

I especially play the card game Tichu a lot, and would like to play Barbu more than I get around to doing. Otherwise, many board games. Currently in:

* Goa
* Thurn & Taxis

and of course also Poker.

[luke warm]

i used to be a pretty fair chess player... play golf, poker, pool

[Mr. Dodgy]

Cards: Bridge is best by a mile, but Cribbage is about as good as you get for 2 or 3 players. Spent a lot of time in adolescence playing Five Hundred, and my (basic) bridge knowledge made me quite formidable in a social game. I suck at Poker.

I usually do pretty well at word games, and Trivial Pursuit. Pictionary is fun.

On the computer I LOVE the Baldur's Gate series, in large part as a fond reminsence of some miserable grades in High School resulting from being far more interested in pen-and-paper Dungeons and Dragons than homework. I'd give my left arm to be involved in the development of a Rolemaster-based FRPG game, though my talents would likely be best directed at playtesting :-)) I am semi-addicted to Freecell!

I was a Phys Ed teacher so I'm into many sports, though mainly as a spectator these days. Cricket and volleyball are favorites, along with lacrosse, hockey, and martial arts. I play a fairly mean game of 8-Ball, and a decent game of tenpin bowling. Australia has the best football code in the world...carna HAWKS. Gridiron when the Broncos are winning, soccer when Arsenal are (though I'd actually rather play than WATCH soccer). I'm at best ordinary at golf, tennis and gymnastics but do like to watch the big events in each.

I can't relate at all to baseball or basketball, oddly I don't mind netball so much.

[whereagles]

I found Baldur's Gate kinda boring... somehow I don't like the interface :/

[pclayton]

Elianna, on Jul 5 2006, 09:32 AM, said:

pclayton, on Jul 5 2006, 06:13 AM, said:

Sudoku is a waste of time for me, but Kimi loves them.

I dislike Sudoku, too. I really like Cross sums, though, I find them quite addictive.

I used to be really into crosswords puzzles, but I stopped a while ago. I was thinking of starting again after I saw "Wordplay"

Brian is a crosssums nut too.

[1eyedjack]

Computer games?
... Chucky egg
... prince of persia (until you have completed it)
... team yankee (you'd do well to complete it, and forget the Gulf War sequel)
... Wolfenstein (yeah I KNOW it has been surpassed by Doom and its ilk, but I just LUURVE that German marshal music. Da da da dummmm, da DAA da da oh what the hell it's not the same without the speakers).
... Supaplex (if only I could get it to run on a non-DOS environment)
... Anything produced by Soleau

I used have lots of fun with "Conflict" - a sort of cut down version of Balance of Power - you were Israel v the neighbours. After the nuclear fallout the game for some reason always rated me as "fascist". The whole thing fitted onto one floppy. And that was in the days when floppies "flopped".

Card games?
Prefa : an absolutely extraordinary auction whist game that originates from Greece, requiring precisely three (yes three) players. Not a patch on Bridge, but when there are only 3 of you, and a bottle of ouzo ...

Odd that no-one has mentioned poker. Not my game, but just odd that no-one has mentioned it.

[pclayton]

Did anyone finish Riven? It was the only real computer game I ever tried and I thought it was pretty spooky-cool.

[keylime]

Believe it or not, I play the board game Sorry a lot.

On the PC, Toca 3, rally stuff, and a few of the first person shooters.

[Deanrover]

How different are Go and Chess?

p.s. Diplomacy is fantastic, we should arrange a game......

[mgoetze]

Deanrover, on Jul 7 2006, 03:33 AM, said:

How different are Go and Chess?

Somehow, Chess holds no attraction for me, thus I can't really make a fair comparison. One of the more striking differences is that Chess is all or nothing, there are only 3 possible results. In Go you can win big or win by a tiny margin, and it's possible to handicap the game so players of different strength can both have a chance against one another. Also, ties can be excluded and are very rare if not.

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p.s. Diplomacy is fantastic, we should arrange a game......

Well, I have some PBEM GM experience, so if 7 people sign up...

[Gerben42]

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p.s. Diplomacy is fantastic, we should arrange a game......

Sure deal me in

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How different are Go and Chess?

I've played chess competetively but what I've found frustrating about it is that to become a good chess player you need to cope with:

* A games lasts 3 hours and one little mistake and you can just go home.
* You need to learn lots of boring opening and endgame theory (somehow I'm learning lots of Bridge bidding theory also but that is somehow different)

Go is different in that

* One mistake might lose a group but not the game (at least on the 19x19 board)
* Games against way stronger / weaker players can be fun (because you give people a head start)
* It has so simple rules, really elegant

[Kaapo]

1eyedjack, on Jul 6 2006, 06:13 PM, said:

... Supaplex (if only I could get it to run on a non-DOS environment)

Well, there's Megaplex with which you can play Supaplex levels.

[Gerben42]

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... Supaplex (if only I could get it to run on a non-DOS environment)

Well what kinda system do you run. I always include a DOS partition on my personal PC

If you don't, here is the trick: Have a DOS boot disk and only one partition that is DOS-readable (others are NTFS, Linux or whatever). Then you have DOS!