Board Games To Play In Las Vegas?

[Dr Adequate]

Just a suggestion.

Yes, I know there are lots of other exciting things to do in Las Vegas, what with the booze and the gambling and the hookers, but hear me out.

I think a lot of us are into one or another cerebral sort of game: chess, Go, backgammon, bridge, Scrabble ... that sort of thing.

At TAM, you might meet an opponent worthy of your mettle.

With me, it's backgammon: I reckon that to be the game of games, and I'd love to spend an evening at it challenging all comers.

Is anyone else interested? Name your game, and let's see if we can find a match.

 

[Normal Dude]

Axis and Allies.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

Axis and Allies.

Don't laugh. I've got a Milton Bradley version that hasn't seen a table top since 1988 and I'd be tempted to find a way to get it to Vegas just to give it one last use.

 

[kittynh]

I used to play that!

ohhhh! (I have brothers)

 

[Susan Gerbic]

I'm all up for this. Backgammon it is for me as well.

I also love Trivial Pursuit!

Susan

 

[Susan Gerbic]

Does anyone know if there will be a area that we can kinda hang out in (all night if we want) that we can bring games and play? That would be more fun than going to someone's hotel room. I know, I know.....I mean someone might want to go to sleep in their room and it is full of gamers yelling YATZEE!


I would love to learn how to play Bridge

Susan

 

[Kochanski]

I usually do a games night on Friday, in my hotel room and if you want to include these games in that I am all for it. I will be bringing lots of fun games including Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, Zombies, Zombie Fluxx, Kung Fu Fighting, Tiki Mountain, Treehouse, Cosmic Wimpout, Battue and a few others that are slipping my mind at the moment.

All games and gamers are welcome. If you have a game you want to play, bring it. We can also play on other nights (I expect to arrive on Wednesday and leave on Monday morning).

Let the games begin

 

[RSLancastr]

One of my favorite board games: Can't Stop!

 

[tkingdoll]

I love board games but I'm not playing any with you, Dr A, except games of chance.

I mean, chess? Scrabble?

I'll play Snap with you.

 

[DiskoVilante]

Chess is the game of games. I'm sorry, but it is.

Anyway, we should play Cranium...it's a group game that mixes acting, trivia, pictionary, etc etc into one!

 

[bignickel]

I brought a bunch of boardgames to 2006 TAM. After one game, the rest of the group decided to play poker.

Later, some skepchicks came down from the skepchickparty, and we played Tsuro. On the very last afternoon, I remembered that we had a game of Fearsome Floors going (MoeFaux was one of the players. Pics somewhere).

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

Haven't had a good backgammon game for quite a while.

 

[Susan Gerbic]

I will be bringing lots of fun games including Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, Zombies, Zombie Fluxx, Kung Fu Fighting, Tiki Mountain, Treehouse, Cosmic Wimpout, Battue and a few others that are slipping my mind at the moment.

I don't think I have ever heard of any of these games. Are they real board games?

Haven't had a good backgammon game for quite a while.

I've been thinking the same thing since it was mentioned in the OP. No one here wants to play, but we used to play like crazy people back when I was in high school. We were too busy rolling dies to smoke pot or drink. Guess that is what is wrong with me, I never got in the habit of it.

I brought a bunch of boardgames to 2006 TAM. After one game, the rest of the group decided to play poker.

Obviously I didn't know about it, otherwise I would have been there. I wasn't really aware of this forum community at TAM6. We will have a message board up this year?

Anyway, we should play Cranium...it's a group game that mixes acting, trivia, pictionary, etc etc into one!

Backgammon is still better. But I'll play

I usually do a games night on Friday, in my hotel room and if you want to include these games in that I am all for it.

The most amazing game in the world is PIT. We play this as a family anytime we can get 5 people together at a table. The problem is that it can get so loud. Are you sure you want to play in your hotel room, do you have any idea how many people might be coming through? We need table space.

Apples to Apples is also a great game.

Anyone know if there might be a place we can meet in the meeting rooms or not? I would feel less like I was imposing on someone else's room if we met somewhere neutral. That way we could have lots of tables space, and people who wander in can join in games at different tables with other people wandering in.

The whole idea of TAM is for us to meet up and form social networks with like-minded thinkers, we want to make this more inviting for those people not on this forum but are wandering into their first TAM, and maybe their first skeptic event.

I don't think we even understand how much bigger this one is going to be, but I think we will be shocked.

Who would I ask about a meeting room?

Susan

 

[Kochanski]

Quote:
I will be bringing lots of fun games including Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, Zombies, Zombie Fluxx, Kung Fu Fighting, Tiki Mountain, Treehouse, Cosmic Wimpout, Battue and a few others that are slipping my mind at the moment.

I don't think I have ever heard of any of these games. Are they real board games?

Munchkin, Killer Bunnies and Zombie Fluxx are pure card games, no board involved. Tiki Mountain and Battue are board games. Kung Fu Fighting is a hybrid. Treehouse and Cosmic Wimpout are dice games, although Treehouse involves pyramids too (in a non-woo way).

 

[rustypouch]

You had me at booze and hookers.

 

[tkingdoll]

Chess is the game of games. I'm sorry, but it is.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy being bad at chess. But I ain't playing against a mathematician.

I am, however, the queen of Cranium.

 

[DiskoVilante]

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy being bad at chess. But I ain't playing against a mathematician.

I am, however, the queen of Cranium.

Hah! You put too much stock in my chess abilities.

I'm the King of Cranium though.

 

[Wolfman]

I am, however, the queen of Cranium.

I'm the King of Cranium though.

Guess I'll be the Court Jester of Cranium

 

[Dr Adequate]

Chess is the game of games. I'm sorry, but it is.

I don't like chess, it makes me too tense. Having someone inscrutably plotting my downfall ... luring me into subtle traps ... disguising their true objectives with a devilish cunning ... it's like paranoia only for real.

 

[NobbyNobbs]

Don't laugh. I've got a Milton Bradley version that hasn't seen a table top since 1988 and I'd be tempted to find a way to get it to Vegas just to give it one last use.

If you'd like to make sure it gets used, you can always send it to me! I've always wanted that game, but can't justify spending money I don't have.

I usually do a games night on Friday, in my hotel room and if you want to include these games in that I am all for it. I will be bringing lots of fun games including Munchkin, Killer Bunnies, Zombies, Zombie Fluxx, Kung Fu Fighting, Tiki Mountain, Treehouse, Cosmic Wimpout, Battue and a few others that are slipping my mind at the moment.

All games and gamers are welcome. If you have a game you want to play, bring it. We can also play on other nights (I expect to arrive on Wednesday and leave on Monday morning).

Let the games begin

Cosmic Wimpout....now there's a game I haven't heard about in 20 years. Wow. I wonder if I still remember how to play.

Anybody ever heard of Awful Green Things From Outer Space? Know if it's still in print?

There's also a good card game called Once Upon A Time, which would be great for this group, and something called Nightmare Chess, which is a fun two-player game.