2 adults a boy a girl and one male teenager. Everyone's competitive except for the girl. We all want to win except for the girl she likes the colors she'll pick red even though she has blue and yellow thus she needs Direction. So my wife takes that role and of course her Direction is on its face self-serving. My teenager is Uber competitive and it's giving my five-year-old self-serving directions that were using a blanket it as the world Uno Championship belt. So we using the blanket as a prize and the winner gets to wear it like a wrestling champion.
. Now I'm the only one that is not giving directions to anyone. And watching it all happen in front of me but when I have a chance to influence the game I'm doing it with my interests involved.
Now the teenager my wife and myself at the same time or complaining to the world Court of Uno that the other two are self-serving in their Direction and therefore this must be illegal. They at the very same time are doing the exact same thing they complaining other two of doing.
Even though I am not doing anything I am treated with massive suspicion when I give advice to either of the children. Knowing this I use reverse psychology. For example I've looked at their hand obviously cuz they show their cards to everyone ican't help but notice someone has yellow and red and you have and you have green and red. So I say choose yellow which immediately puts my teenager on alert and demands the child pick red which of course I predicted and everyone agrees with my teenager that I am doing this out of my self-interest and I am but I'm doing it in the opposite way of course they pick red and unable to play.
My boy is held to a higher standard than the girl mainly because she is not very interested in playing although she loves the excitement. For example you have to say uno when you have one card left and he almost won but we do not his picture because we don't remember him saying Uno which made him cry uncontrollably and had to sit out a game. My teenager lost that round and he freaked out and went up into his room and spazzed out.
Then he came back and beat us only after manipulating my boy to choose all the right colors for him.
When my teen won he jumped in the air super happy ran around like he won the lottery...i said to my wife...he's having more fun then riding the go karts Miniature good combined!
It was the loudest the midst fun and raucous time we've had!
Who would have thought?
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[–] maurice1 ago (edited ago)
It really does bring back great memories, thinking about interactive groups games, played in person. I grew up, my three older sisters and my mother all played all of these games and others with me.
One of my grannies had a few strokes. She was bed ridden. I was around 4 or so. She would play connect four with me.
It wasn't until I got to be around 15, that I started learning to be a good winner and a good loser though. My oldest sister married an airforce guy. Brilliant man. He would play stuff like Mortal Kombat with me. He'd kick my butt so bad, but unlike most people I grew up around, he never bragged or rubbed it in my face. He would give me pointers and cheer me on.
It was really weird until I finally understood what it meant to be a good winner.
We played all sorts of the more advanced table top style games, like WarHammer, MageKnights, Talisman, Axis & Allies.
Anyhow, in high-school is when I learned to throw dice and I loved it. Been playing games involving dice for a few years, due to my bro-in-law and in school some guys taught me to throw dice for change to buy lunch. A couple of girls, same high-school, taught me Domino's.
Man I still love all of these kinds of games, but most I meet and know would rather be staring at screens, instead.
[–] Wazhappenin1 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My kids have a game called left right. They love it. They have no screens! I wish we could all play someday!
The games you mention I know sparingly, but I completely agree. Playing games work family and friends is better then screen time!
[–] maurice1 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Funny how all my youth, my mother told me "TV rots your brain". I never believed her until cell phones became so prevalent.
[–] maurice1 ago (edited ago)
I an't tell you how many hours I spent learning to paint miniatures with my bro-in-laws guidance, but that was the most fun part of WarHammer, was painting the armies for the battles. The mental escape from life's drama. The connecting with my bro-in-law. He gave me great guidance, but I was so far gone, it didn't do much but it did help me to find constructive ways to calm down and channel my hyper personality. It kept me off the streets for the most part as well.
Life could have went far, far different in some ways.
[–] maurice1 ago
Backgammon is still one of my favorite of all games. An old Navy guy I knew, taught me to play, during my teen years as well.