Yeah We Raised Four Corners of the Globe for the Holy Grail

[ase]

My computer is convinced there's no photo #3350. This is a tragedy, since I'm pretty sure that was the good picture of the Unspeakable Words Cthulhus from samthereaderman's game night. Ticket to Ride, Unspeakable Words, and Trivial Persuit: Reader's Edition made appearances, as did cake. Happy birthday, Sam!

I have weird attention span issues with board games: once I've learned the rules, I want the game to move fast enough I don't have time to second-guess. This means I'm terrifically tempted to treat Ticket to Ride like speed chess, but so far no one else is with me on this plan. Trivial Persuit: Reader's Edition got the biggest laugh of the night for "right answer, wrong turn" mishaps, but even our group of dedicated SF junkies were pretty hit-or-miss on some categories. Unspeakable Words is another game that I want to treat as a speed game. Until such time, Cthulhu rearrangements will amuse me between bouts of vowel-free word crises.

Comments

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

I think the pictures came out awesome!

Also, I think that the second time we play the cthulu word game? It will be fast. Much faster. We were on that firsttrial, where we didn't know what the rules were.

Had we played a second time? Speed.

As for TTR? Try the online version. I wanted, at a certain point, to put a 20 second timer on certain people. But that would be wrong.

[ase.livejournal.com]

I think Unspeakable Words will eventually be time-constrained by how long it takes to calculate the running score. Addition: not for the faint of heart.

Running score

[samthereaderman.livejournal.com]

Have a laptop with Excel next to the game, programmed to do a running tally. Come to think of it, there should be a way to program it with the letter point values so all you do is type in the word and the points appear.

Re: Running score

[ase.livejournal.com]

Or have a calculator handy. If we were really hard-core, the scorekeeper would have a program on their TI-83.

Oh wait. I'm the only one who owns a TI-83, aren't I? D'oh!