I don’t mind monops.
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Played BOOoop for the first time tonight, but omitted the ghost cats, meaning really we just played BOOP. I would have lost, as my wife had two cats in a row, but she was out of cats in her pool, so just promoted a kitten. This allowed me to get three of my own cats in a row for the win.
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Payed some more Ra and a first game of Tussie Mussie.
We played Tussie Mussie at 4 and it didn’t quite land. It was fine but that was about as good as it got. This is the first Button shy game I’ve played and although there is impressively a lot of game for so few cards the end result was still just fine.
I don’t think this one will survive the next cull.
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I had people swear that Monopoly Deal is fun.
It’s fine. I wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend, but it’s okay. Far better than Monopoly in play time if nothing else! But it’s still a ‘take-thaty’ card game with lots of luck and little depth.
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Fun might be pushing it. However, it bears no mechanical resemblance to the original game outside of having money (it’s an auction game) and it moves along pretty briskly, so, while it’s nowhere near the top of my list of favourite games (or even the middle), it’s not too bad.
Disclaimer: I’ve played it once with Maryse and our niece and nephew.
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Game night with six, without one regular who doesn’t like Pit Crew. So…
Pit Crew! My car fell way behind round one but we got a card that let us move extra spaces the more cards there were in our gas tank. Took us a little bit but we got luckier hands and managed to take the lead by the end.
Letter Jam with some controversial words. BEERCOOLER, WEDDEDELOPED, and NAPHTHA all made an appearance. Hands up how many people know that last word? It was 2/6 at our table - the guy who gave the clue and my wife, who was on bonus letters anyway. Everyone still got all their words correct though.
For Sale: Good quick fun.
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I know “naphtha”, but not “weddedeloped”.
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I know that one because it’s lighter fluid and is used a lot for cleaning guitar parts.
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Pax Transhumanity - going into the future here this time. The usual opening where players are still learning how to stand up, let alone walk or run! (Including myself) I picked up 1st World as my hidden scoring, 1 went for Cloud, and 2 went for Developing World.
After the learning how to walk bit is done, we continue being poor and see every action being expensive. But commercialising new ideas made our patents more valuable as the game goes on to the point that we can do any action by selling just one patent. A rather depressing start where we are all Earthbounded for quite a while. But breakthrough in Cloud tech opened up the whole game, suddenly Cloud and Space were opened for business. Player D was going for a Tycoon Victory by building 5 corporations. Player C realised that by trying to gun for the Singularity would allow her to win, but the table was having none of that.
I was struggling to solve problems in the 1st World and so I switch to Cloud as it is the dominant sphere by this point - I called my Cloud company Azure ermmm… Verde… The end game cards started appearing before D can setup his 4th company. Too slow, bubs. And every one else were trying to score Cloud points. The game ended with C triggering a nuclear exchange to destroy everyone else’s Cloud points, and when the points were tallied up: it was a tie between me and C. I won by having the most money in the tiebreaker. Nice try.
If all else fails, we can always upload our consciousness into the Cloud, owned by a mega corporation.
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Just a quick game of Star Wars the Deckbuilding Game today, with me as the Empire and my wife as the Rebels. It started off pretty even, but my wife was able to destroy an AT-AT from the galaxy row, which let her buy Luke Skywalker for free, and the game went downhill from there. Vader was in the row, but I never got enough purchasing power to buy him, as I needed my Landing Craft for their healing abilities rather than purchasing power. I took out two of her bases, but was unable to scratch the third after three hands of virtually no attack power, while she took out my Death Star to win the game.
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Naphtha soap is the best soap for removing oil or oily residue, including grease from carpets, and perhaps more importantly, the irritating/poisonous oils from poison ivy/oak.
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I know that one from an Astérix comic book many years ago.
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I’m learning a lot here.
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It always bothered me that there is no “2nd world.” A year or two back I learned that this whole concept came out of the 60’s civil rights movement where Asian American students were pushing for a curriculum that dealt with their parts of the world and their non-European heritage - tired of learning about just European and American history. There was the Old World (roughly the Mediterranean and surrounds, extending through Mesopotamia), the New World (the Americas) and then the Third World - mostly Asia and Africa but also the Pacific, etc.
Over time the term evolved, though, to be associated with poverty and underdevelopment, because of their prevalence in Asia and Africa, and became juxtaposed with a new “first world” which was defined as the opposite.
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Speaking as someone who came from the Developing World. That was the in-game term, which I don’t like, but I’d like to be accurate with the terms of the game. I prefer the terms “Developed/Developing World/Countries”. I would stop using 1st World if Westerns aren’t into it.
And I certainty object to the usage of “3rd World” (which, thankfully, Matt is thoughtful enough not to use) And I don’t like the term “Global South” either.
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Another approach I’ve met is first world (“the west”), second world (Soviet sphere), third world (neither). Second World - Wikipedia
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Second World was definitely used in Communist propaganda a lot at the height of the Cold War. Basically, first world is colonizers / imperialists who exploit the third world and communism was the better alternative to either exploiter or exploited. I think without the propaganda argument side of things that is the original definitions, come up with by a French academic IIRC.
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Looks like you all are right. I’ve relearned it now.
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Naphtha is the only one of those three I recognised as a (single) word : )
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No pedestrian single word clue rules over here in our Letter Jam land. If you can dream it (and spell it) you can build it. The only question is whether it will be useful at all. Clown on WEDDEDELOPED all you like but for our group, it got more players their letters than NAPHTHA.
(WEDDEDELOPED did come from the same twisted mind that gave us AEIOU in a game many years ago.)
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