Lindsey Zanardi: We have family game night on Fridays, our kids ages are 8,7, and 2 and we play board games every other week. On the other weeks we play games on our PS3
Olin Hallin: hello. i am looking for a great Stratego strategy. i am not looking for advice like put the bombs around your flag, i mean like a picture of the beest setup of you pieces. thanks!
Providencia Serpe: Put bombs around a bomb. People will think that the flag is there, thus sending their best people over and getting the sh*t blown out of them. Also, put all your crappy people at the back, mix in only one or two good ones....Keep the spy in the back, also a major....Use them and a bomb or two to surround the flag.
Emeline Albracht: Especially on holiday’s in which we can’t go out. But, even when we get together and invite each other over for dinner we sometimes play board games. Especially when we don’t like what is on TV or find a movie we can agree to watch together...! then we pull out the board games. This happens about five times a year for our family. Although this last year I have called my kids to ask them to dinner and a game night. To tell you the truth I enjoy it more than watching tv or movies, because it is a great way to keep connected and to find out what is going on with each other. It also validates OUR LIVES, rather than just... some tv star, movie star or sports star. We get to be the STARS for each other.My children are grown now and married ages 25 and 26. They don’t have children yet, (so things might change) but we still play board games. I/We like to play a great game called, "Apples to Apples". Because it gets us all going by: thinking, challenging each other, challenging the judge . . . of course, and having fun. I/We like the more "group involvement games" than the "sit and wait for your turn" games. It is more interactive/competitive but fun too!At Thanksgiving, I have everyone over from both my hus! band’s extened family and my extended family. We get very b! ored and cramped with each other after eating all day, with no where to go, and nothing to do. One of the best things I started about six years ago is a Family Bingo Game! It started out with just using left over Halloween candy for the kids as prizes, (As one year I had too much candy left over, so I wrapped it into brown lunch sacks as surprise prizes for bingo - just to get rid of it).Now, Thanksgiving Family Bingo Night, (which is played on the Friday after Thanksgiving) has become a regular great night of Family Bingo with great prizes... that I pick up for both men and women throughout the year. . . or gifts that have been given to me and I don’t need or want. This year some of the gifts were: worth $20. So everyone gets a prize and likes to play until they win at least one Bingo! It’s a great way to give gifts to those you can’t spend Birthday gifts for throughout the year. And, we love the competition for the better prizes... people really want to win.! (Just don’t use a gift for bingo that an invited family member has given you and you didn’t need or want as a gift! - Secretly I buy gifts that I know family members men and woman would like and this says to them, "I love you" or "Happy Birthday" etc.) Most guests find their gift before Bingo and play very hard to win it! Ha ha! Still it can get very competitive: as I try and find gifts that everyone needs and wants but does not buy for themselves.We have made specific rules about winning and how you earn your prizes and it is a lot of fun! In our family we play until everyone wins at least once, if they win a second time before others have won once, then they have to take a token gift... usually left over Halloween candy in a brown lunch sack! Still not a bad prize for a second or third win at family bingo!!! I always make sure there is a great prize for each person who has been invited to Thanksgiving with a few extras... just in case.I don’t know if Bingo ! is a board game, but we still have fun playing board games in our famil! y, because it is about family connection, interaction, and bonding relationships that still need our loving validation and some fun! Sometimes you just have to breakout of the box, .... and play an old fashioned box game!...Show more
Idell Mulliniks: I was looking at my chess board box and noticed that the position on the box cover could not possibly have been actually possible to do. Here is the piece positions:A3: white kingB1: black pawnB4: white rookB7: white pawnC3: white pawnC6: white pawnD3: black knightD4: white pawnD7: black bishopD8: white knightE1: black bishopE5: white queenF2: white rookF3: black pawnF4: black kingF6: black queenF8: black rookG1: black pawnG3: white bishopG6: black pawnG7: black pawnObviously it is blacks turn, but you notice both the bishop and queen are checking him, except they're both on opposite sides this time. There is one possible move black can do (Kg4) but i dont see at all how white got the bishop and queen where they are.
Hermina Ketring: Have a ball playing different board games with the grandkids!ClueMousetrapChinese checkersConnect 4 (I guess that's not really a board game, since it is vertical...)BraniacI know there are others. We have enormously good times with them and, in fact, have set up a table in the family room precisely for board games and card games. It's call a card table! Imagine that...But right now, the card game "Hand and Foot" has the lead as my eleven year old granddaughter has learned to beat the odds and somehow beat me MOST of the time. How she does it I have not yet figured out. After all, I'm the one who shuffles the cards!...Show more
Vida Miss: I don't know but try the search bar above, i'm sure there's heaps of information.
Somer Distilo: Dear Ian:Chris Ancor is quite right when he states that the position of the pieces on the box cover is impossible (or, to state it correctly, illegal). Let us examine the matter further.On the box cover as! you described it, the black king is in check from two pieces (the whit! e queen and a white bishop) at the same time. Because opponents move only one piece at a time, two moves would have been required to get both the queen and the bishop into position. This would not be possible, however, because the rules require that a king in check must get out of check (if he can) on his next move. In other words, the black king, checked by the first piece, could not legally wait where he was while the second piece was moved into position; and given that the object of the game is to checkmate the king, this would be completely ridiculous.It is possible that the white queen and the white bishop were already in the positions described and that the black king moved in between them… except that a king cannot legally move into a position where he is in check. Therefore, the position of the pieces shown on the box cover is illegal.So, just what is going on here?Obviously, whoever manufactured the chess set needed an illustration for the box cover so that th! e potential buyer would know what kind of game it was. The box illustration might have shown the pieces at their starting positions; but I am guessing that the manufacturer thought that too boring and opted instead to show the board at the “mid-game†point where there were still many pieces on the board (and thousands of possible moves to come) as a means of making the game seem more exciting, and thereby enticing the consumer to purchase the set. Nothing wrong with that, of course; but it is obvious that whoever was assigned to take the box cover photograph did not know how to play the game and simply put the pieces on the board any which way without bothering to make sure that the position of the pieces was legal within the rules of chess. Had I been in charge of the photo shoot, I would have challenged someone to a game, stopped at the mid-game point, and then taken the photograph, so as to be assured that the position of the pieces was legal. Then, I would have f! inished the game.So what does it all prove? It just proves that game m! anufacturers, like the rest of us, are only human; we make mistakes.Now, go have a good game of chess.Flash Kellam
Wally Perrien: There are lots of people who play and enjoy board games. I try to host a game night monthly and have anywhere between 15-30 people come. The board games are not necessarily advertised on TV though.www.boardgamegeek.com is an entire site for people who love board games so there are definitely people out there playing alot of games.Hope this helps!jason@play-board-games.comDo you play board games? Check out http://www.play-board-games.com...Show more
Troy Monsivais: One thing I like to do is pretend I'm going to move a piece that is a bomb. Since folks think I was going to move it at one time they don't think it's a bomb. Put 7s behind behind bombs to take out their 8s.
Barrett Zheng: My family does. Ticket to Ride, Rumis, Risk, Axis & Allies, Robo Rally, Who Killed Dr. Lucky?, Amoeba Wars, many others...I'm something of a boar! dgame collector, and my children and their friends frequently enjoy our stock of games at our house, as well as attending game events at their local high school, college, and game store.***Between my original post and now I've played two rounds of The Creature That Ate Sheboygan with my younger son. He won one round, I won the other...the heroic national guard and brave policemen saved the city both times, but when it was my turn to defend the city the music festival in the park came to a grisly end....Show more
Robin Marchione: My girlfriend and I will break out a board game every now and again just because it's an alternative to the same old stuff on TV. When we were at her parent's place for x-mas, we actually ended up playing two old games that they had in the closet (Mall Madness and Candy Land) while waiting for dinner.My friends and I even played a few board games in college. With a little creativity, it's pretty easy to turn one into a drinking game ;-)...S! how more
Carmina Stickney: Yeah I still get people together to pl! ay. I have the rare game Bootleggers and my friends and I have a ton of fun seeing who will get richest off of moonshine.
Lilli Kochel: Check out http://strategotips.com for strategy written by high ranked Stratego players.
Patrica Loertscher: kind of
Lourie Mcroberts: This is tricky to pull off but. As soon as they play their marshell at you.Start agessivly moving any peice towards his Marshell (they will think it is the spy). Thus sending the marshell into retreat. With luck for the rest of the game. Or untill you can sneak your real spy in and past his defence's (try to make him think you have forgoton where his marshell was).Always keep you flag surounded with bombs and a Major.
Irving Jordahl: A general strategy for this game is to be deceptive. Some of the answers previous to mine give good specific strategies for deceiving your opponent into thinking you are doing one thing, while you are actually doing another. But never use the same strate! gy twice, or at least never in two games played close together, or your opponent will catch on and use this insight to his or her advantage. The important thing is to keep your opponent off guard, so he or she has no idea what you are doing. Keep your opponent guessing, and create new deceptive strategies for each time you play.Keep in mind that your opponent will probably try to be deceptive also. This is where body language comes in. Is your opponent constantly looking at one part of the board in his or her area? Does he or she have a smile or smirk or look of intense concentration or worried expression on his or her face as he or she does so? Those clues might mean something.Is your opponent paying just a little too much attention to the part of your side that holds the flag? You might want to take steps to protect that area. Or maybe you want to leave that area wide open as though there is nothing of value there while concentrating on putting up defenses in another part! of your area as though the flag were there instead. If your opponent i! s attacking an area where your flag is not, see if you can concentrate your defenses there so he or she thinks you have something to hide there. Protecting a bomb or high-level piece instead of your flag is my favorite strategy, but remember not to do that all the time, or your opponent will catch on. Be creative!One thing I never do (well, almost never) is put my flag in a corner. This is an incredibly obvious strategy, and one that will generally attract a lot of attention, especially if you do it all the time. But perhaps you want to pretend your flag is in a corner and keep ample protection there to throw your opponent off? There are too many fun strategies you could use to list all of them here. But the point is that you never give your opponent the advantage of knowing what you are doing. This simple advice is the key to winning the game. Have fun! - LJS
Jannie Ariola: the bigger the city?....the less likely your interested in board games !!cell-phones & interne! t & video games is what kids wantmalls open earlier & close later & open 7 days a week
Lucrecia Laurito: No. That position is impossible to achieve.
Nestor Klan: Thousands do and new games come out every day
King Bringle: it is a nightmare to play since.. Can't save after almost an hour I just close the app without saving, and this is the second time that i unistall and re install the game I give up
Sang Hanafin: A few months ago I started board game Friday nights with my husband and daughter. We put down the electronics, turn off the tv, make some snacks and play games together. I have to say it's the most fun we have together in a busy week of work, school and activities.
Bruce Calise: Hey now, don't knock board games! My co-workers and I have semi-regular board game nights. Of course, we're also teachers so... could just be the influence of being around kids all day.
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