I spent the weekend at the beach with my family—two action-filled days of reading books on a couch and posting pictures of other peoples’ dogs on Twitter. (I also got a haircut at the Perfect Look in Tillamook, which in retrospect was an incredibly questionable decision.) To fulfill our quality time quota we played a lot of an awesome board game called Tie One On, which I like because it is a word game and because it is not Apples to Apples. (Apples to Apples is less a game than an excuse to drink heavily while trying to manipulate the people around you, and who needs a set of cards for THAT.) So: Tie One On. Thumbs up.
Players have 45 seconds to get their partner to say 7 linked words. Words are linked in one of four ways: shared word (BOX OFFICE, THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX), rhyming, linked phonemes (cen-TER, TER-MITE, MIGHT-y Mouse), and word association (SHEET, MUSIC, JAZZ). Partnerships change each turn, so everyone partners up with everyone else over the course of the game.
SO IT’S JUST FANCY TABOO?
yeah but more word game-y.
What I get out of this is that you and your entire family are brains. Which is cute beyond belief.
My families drinking get together game is similar, but much simpler: string words together to form a complaint about relationships, politics, or money and then take a drink.
fruit cup, an alternate reading of this post: really, really slow blog day.
Absolutely! It’s President’s Day after all! I think I’m one of the only office jockeys in America working right now.
Personally, I think Apples to Apples is the most fun when you make your own deck. Sit down with some friends (who know the game) and a huge quantity of index cards, and make color-coded doodles on one side to differentiate adjectives and nouns. It’s fun to make a whole game full of in-jokes, have noun cards for every person you know and every character in your favorite games and movies….
I played this game called ‘Dixit’ a few months ago. It’s pretty fun.
I just played Who’s Got Game? by Neil Strauss. He wrote the book The Game. It was AWESOME! So much fun. I highly recommend it. It has 10 categories ranging from physical challenges to storytelling (charades) to personality tests/handwriting analysis to fun loaded questions. Very very fun! Just my 2 cents. Thanks, Todd