BOARD GAMES

[CEValkyrie]

Any of you like to play board games? Usually every other month a group of my friends gets together to play some board games. If anyone is interested, let me know. Risk, Risk2210, Monopoly, Acquire, History of the World & several others. Even if you have never played, we are will to teach.

Later

Brett

[jim]

I play Monopoly and TrivPursuit.  But when I play Monopoly, rules change to benefit everyone. I've had games last 18 hours. You can put up to four hotels on a property, without having to buy houses. If you get an upside-down Chance card, you can build without owning the property, if unowned.  I'm always up for a game of that!

[jim]

Do you guys remember (mainly Bill, Brett, and Brent) when you started playing and you thought I was pretty good - And I kept telling you that I'm not that good? Well, all three of you guys - and others - are now just as good as I am if not better.  It has taken me 9 years of playing to finally drive near 300 feet and make some consistent putts!  So you should feel great about the progress you've all made!  It makes me strive harder to kick your butts!

[jim]

......and so will everyone else!

[CEValkyrie]

sounds pretty sweet bill. i have never sat down & learned to play chess. maybe i'll have to get around to it considering my disc golf game is the worst it has been since i started playing.

[CEValkyrie]

that's not a bad idea bill. i'm going to have to try that. thought about benching my whole bag o discs by throwing them in the water sunday. i'll keep throwing till i figure something out. sorry myk for the terrible day!

[CEValkyrie]

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[vanmaster_b]

I Haven't played this yet, but it looks pretty cool.







Martian Chess is played on an ordinary chessboard using a standard set of chess pieces, a standard deck of 52 playing cards, and a six-sided die. The pieces are set up in the usual fashion, and each player is dealt 13 cards. White goes first.



In his or her turn, a player roles the die. The number shown on the die is the number of "moves" a player can make. Each move allows a player to move a piece (pieces move in the same fashion as in standard chess), but no piece may be moved twice in the same turn. Rather than move a piece, a player may use a move to discard a card from his hand, placing it face up on the discard pile so it may be seen by his opponent, and drawing a new card from the deck. A player may also use a move to exchange one piece he has captured for an identical one captured by his opponent, placing the returned piece of his own color into his "reserve." A move may also be used to place (paradrop) a piece from a player's reserve on any vacant square, except that pawns may not be placed on the first or last rank.



An exchanged prisoner can be paradropped on the board in the same turn it is exchanged. However a paradropped piece cannot be moved again in the same turn, even if it had been exchanged in a previous turn.



Capture: When a player moves one of his pieces onto a square occupied by an opposing piece, he (the attacker) plays a card. The opponent (defender) must then play a card of the same suit if he has one. If he does not, he may play any card. The attacking player then plays an additional card, which must be of the same suit as his initial card if he has one. The defender then plays a card, which must be of the initial suit if he has one. The highest card played (Aces are high, followed by K,Q,J,10,9,.2, as in Bridge) of the initial suit led wins the battle. The winner keeps his piece on the contested square and takes prisoner the losing piece. The cards played go into the discard pile, and each player then draws two more cards from the deck to replace those used in the battle. When the deck is used up, the discard pile is shuffled and used to replace the deck.



If an attack on a defending piece fails (that is, the defender wins the card play), the attacker may, if he has moves left and pieces in position, send another piece to attack the defender again in the same turn. The second attack need not follow the same suit as the first.



Prison and Reserve: Captured pieces are placed in a player's "prison," which is simply a grouping of pieces of the opposite color kept off to the side of the board. During his turn, a player may use one or more of his moves (awarded by the number shown on the die) to exchange one or more of his prisoners for identical pieces held by his opponent. The exchanged pieces go into each player's "reserve," which is simply a grouping of pieces of a player's own color kept to the side of the board. Once a piece is in a player's reserve, a player may use a move to paradrop the piece onto any vacant square on the board, except that pawns may not be dropped on the first or last rank.



Object: the object of the game is to capture the opponent's King.

[vanmaster_b]

Let's remember back to last summer when you thought you were sucking pretty bad (you and I both), then all of a sudden one week you kicked everyone's ass with these super long drives. Beast was getting pissed because you were classified as Am and outdriving him. You might be a hot and cold player. When it's hot you're hot, and when it's not you're not. At least it's an excuse for now. You also might try benching some of the discs that are playing poorly. It seems to work for Brent.

[vanmaster_b]

Angela and I played Martian Chess last night, and she kicked my butt 2 out of 3. It's more of a card game than a chess game, but there are a ton of different strategies. It also doesn't take very long to play - maybe 30 minutes. Anyway, it's definetly a worthy game. I'm sure she will be kicking my butt some more in the  future.

[vanmaster_b]

You have just earned yourself another gratuitous spanking, sir.

[Myk]

TreeChopper (02-11-2002 01:12 p.m.):

sorry myk for the terrible day!

Hey man, you didn't earn that +6 on your own.  It was a team effort! :D :-D