Anyone play any board games, particularly Scrabble?

Wookie

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My Scrabbling muscles are getting a bit rusty, and all my friends refuse to play with me these days; anybody looking for Scrabble opposition? I hate playing over the net.

Am also available for Monopoly and any other board games anyone may be into :)



Admin edit: moved to more appropriate forum :)
 

Wookie

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coobeastie said:
anybody got "War on Terror: The Boardgame"?
<Googles, finds http://www.waronterrortheboardgame.com/ >

No, but I want it :) Next time I go and see my mum, I'll pop into the stockist in Cheltenham.

Where in Stafford/Hanley/wherever does board games and can be petitioned into getting some stock? :)
 

Toble

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I asked Phil at Too Fat Goblins, but he promptly forgot and started banging on about me never building the Dalek i promised to do when i was drunk.
 

Wookie

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I was thinking of Phil, actually, but I didn't think he did boardgames: I thought he was pretty much just merchandise and roleplaying stuff.
However, I admit I only go in there when accompanied by merchandise fans or roleplayers...
 

theflamingred

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Oh oh oh

Scrabble, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit.

Also have Lord of the Rings version of Risk courtesy of Lidl :)
Also have a game called Thud, which I like. Inspired by Terry Pratchett novel.

I used to like playing a game called Blood Bowl but it belonged to a pal and I can't track down a complete set for myself :(
 

theflamingred

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Wookie said:
However, I admit I only go in there when accompanied by merchandise fans or roleplayers...
I'll accompany you. I am neither of the above really but have potential. Besides, I went in there once on my own and dude behind counter scared me. :( No idea if it is this Phil you speak of as there were two behind counter at the time. Does he have a dislike of girls entering a typically blokey realm - or do I look shifty?
 

Wormella

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If yor on facebook there's a very nifty Scrabble application - very handy, all on-line, none of this actual meeting up!! (I'll happily play you).

On the topic of board games I spotted a Transfroemrs version of RISK the other day in HMV - looked very silly but the Lord of the Rings Monopoly set we played on the other day was a good laugh. You can't beat a good boardgame.
 

theflamingred

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Rumbledethump :)

Oh no sorry - that's tonight's dinner. Err...

According to my googling: "John Chew says that OXYPHENBUTAZONE is the highest-scoring word known under American tournament Scrabble rules (OSPD+MWCD)."

Now how in the world does that happen?

I have UpWords at home. 3D scrabble - s'the future :teef:
 
theflamingred said:
I'll accompany you. I am neither of the above really but have potential. Besides, I went in there once on my own and dude behind counter scared me. :( No idea if it is this Phil you speak of as there were two behind counter at the time. Does he have a dislike of girls entering a typically blokey realm - or do I look shifty?
that wont have been phil, just one of the monkeys he employs - was it wearing a fez and a waistcoat? - thats his favorite outfit for a monkey, ask him :)

phil is the one who looks like the shop was named with him in mind, which it was, along with matty (the other, X-fat goblin) not that he's green or anything :P
 

Toble

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mikey of pale said:
phil is the one who looks like the shop was named with him in mind, which it was, along with matty (the other, X-fat goblin) not that he's green or anything :P
depends how much he has drunk.
 

Wookie

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theflamingred said:
Rumbledethump :)

Oh no sorry - that's tonight's dinner. Err...

According to my googling: "John Chew says that OXYPHENBUTAZONE is the highest-scoring word known under American tournament Scrabble rules (OSPD+MWCD)."

Now how in the world does that happen?

I have UpWords at home. 3D scrabble - s'the future :teef:
Easy; have a few of the smaller words (BUT, ZONE etc) down, then just fill in the other letters around them.
You'd have to be bloody lucky, though. :)
 

Wookie

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Wormella said:
If yor on facebook there's a very nifty Scrabble application - very handy, all on-line, none of this actual meeting up!! (I'll happily play you).
Not over Facebook with me, you won't, Wormella :) Sorry, call me a luddite and a technophobe (You're a luddite and a technophobe - Ed.), but I prefer to play board games on a *board*, with *real opponents*. I used to think there wasn't a difference; that the rules and the system were the game, and the technologies used to play it (be it bytes in a computer memory or bits of cardboard and plastic) were interchangeable. Heck, in the absence of a human opponent, I used to be happy to play against an AI. Now I've come to the view that playing games is a social activity more than a solitary one. So it's one of the few activities I used to do on my own, but now try to do with others as far as possible. (Puerile juvenile joke possibilities acknowledged. :) )

So Wormella, if you want to play Scrabble, PM me and we'll sort out a time for me to bring my board down the pub. :)

To be Scrabble-specific for an example, there's nothing quite like putting down two seven letter words on successive turns and watching your opponent's jaw drop as though someone's just cut their mouth muscles.... When the Facebook version does *that*, I'll play. :)
 

Jheych

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Wookie said:
Wormella said:
If yor on facebook there's a very nifty Scrabble application - very handy, all on-line, none of this actual meeting up!! (I'll happily play you).
Not over Facebook with me, you won't, Wormella :) Sorry, call me a luddite and a technophobe (You're a luddite and a technophobe - Ed.), but I prefer to play board games on a *board*, with *real opponents*. I used to think there wasn't a difference; that the rules and the system were the game, and the technologies used to play it (be it bytes in a computer memory or bits of cardboard and plastic) were interchangeable. Heck, in the absence of a human opponent, I used to be happy to play against an AI. Now I've come to the view that playing games is a social activity more than a solitary one. So it's one of the few activities I used to do on my own, but now try to do with others as far as possible. (Puerile juvenile joke possibilities acknowledged. :) )

So Wormella, if you want to play Scrabble, PM me and we'll sort out a time for me to bring my board down the pub. :)

To be Scrabble-specific for an example, there's nothing quite like putting down two seven letter words on successive turns and watching your opponent's jaw drop as though someone's just cut their mouth muscles.... When the Facebook version does *that*, I'll play. :)
Very valid argument that Wookie..very valid indeed..well unless the game happens to be strip poker ( not a board game I know) in which case I reckon you could say playing online is better for some or indeed the majority of players anyway :D

I'm all for this board games idea mind there was a time when the firkin (circa decently clean lavvies ) used to let the adults play the games, jenga and the huge connect 4 and lots of card and board games too . It was a good excuse to go to the pub in the winter as I recall and for people new to the town to meet people . Let's face it generally when the evenings draw in we all start macrame or tai chi or something equally radical and in most cases short lived .

This also makes me think that as the forum is getting larger and more people get involved A ND with winter heading on its way in a bit . It might be an idea to knock a few forum teams together, darts, draughts, chess, ma jong cribbage, doms , cluedo, whatever together and challenge a few of the pubs or something . Even better he said getting reet exited now why not have some sort of inter forum competition ?? something charity type thing everyone pays a quid or a fiver or something and that is their entry fee for the game? at the end of the tournament /season the winners get the sense of achievement and pride for winning and they also get the feel good factor for doing something nice.This could also help a bit of publicity for the forum local rag etc . I dunno maybe donate the money to the children's home or give the old folks at the home a top christmas or some other equally deserving charity that generally doesn't get much of a mention Just another one of my thoughts regarding the publicity . Could offer cheap but valuable prizes like custom Stafford forum Ts with tournament/date and winner status? ( you wont see many of them will you?) it's not that bad a plan tho I think..or is it??

NOTE I don't do organising out of office hours as my wife/mates will happily testify but would be happy to participate in something if someone with oodles better organisational type skills does it .

anyway that should maybe be on a different thread but thoughts folks? or prayers for my sanity ! :teef:
 

theflamingred

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Jheych said:
This also makes me think that as the forum is getting larger and more people get involved A ND with winter heading on its way in a bit . It might be an idea to knock a few forum teams together, darts, draughts, chess, ma jong cribbage, doms , cluedo, whatever together and challenge a few of the pubs or something .
Genius. Would be happy to partcipate with some of previously mentioned games in this thread. Never played cribbage though happy to learn.
 
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