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

[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!