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1. In our first game, the object is to get all my colored pieces around the board and safely home to my little green house before my opponent sends me back to the start. If I roll doubles, I have to go to jail, but once I make it home, I get $200! What did we call this game?
2. For our next game, we set up the board, all chose our favorite color water animal, throw a handful of lettered tiles in the center, then madly try to get our animal to collect as many tiles as we can. Once we collect all the tiles on the board, we try to make words with the ones we caught. The one with the highest scoring words is declared the winner. What game are we playing now?
3. Next, we each set up oceangoing vessels on a star-shaped board, then we took turns flinging colored marbles at the other's boats, in order to sink them. What game have we come up with this time?
4. We decide to expand our minds as well as enjoy an afternoon's silliness, so we drag out two great games and mix them together. As we make our way around the board, we ask and answer questions about art, entertainment, history, history, science and sports. When I get to a larger square and answer my question correctly, I grab a plastic primate and try to pick up another one from the pile, using just the arm of the first. The first one to get six monkeys connected into a chain wins. What should we call this game?
5. All this sitting around playing has made us want to get up and stretch! In this game, one person spins the spinner and tells us how to maneuver our bodies on the floor mat. Once we have our bodies turned into pretzels, we are then handed a set of tweezers and told to remove something from an electronic man without making him buzz. It's a lot harder than it sounds! What should we call this truly diabolical game?
6. In this game, we drive around the board in our little cars, collecting people and murder weapons (in addition to houses, careers and children). When we reach the end of the board, we must stake our fortune, and our little peg children, on a single guess as to who killed Mr. Boddy. What ridiculous game are we playing now?
7. The object of this game is to get our King and Queen moved around the board without a net falling on their heads. The pawns take it in turns to build a Rube Goldberg type contraption designed to capture the royals. The last monarch to make it around without being captured wins. What are we playing?
8. Now we'll make a tower consisting of wooden blocks and black tiles with white pips. We'll take turns removing pieces, each of us removing one block and one tile. The block is placed atop the tower, then the tile must be played against another tile on the table. If you knock over the tower, or can't play your tile on the table, you lose. What should we call this game?
9. Heading outside, we first decide who's to be "it", and that person shuts his eyes. We all step into large burlap bags and begin hopping around the yard, trying hard to avoid the person who's "it", while he tries his best to tag one of us so he can open his eyes and now avoid the new "it" person. To help him out, we periodically shout the name of a world explorer. What potentially dangerous game are we playing now?
10. As long as we're outside, let's play one last game. Using sidewalk chalk, we'll draw out a numbered grid. The first player tosses a 3-D metal star onto the grid, then hops from one end to the other, skipping over the space where the star landed. On the way back across the grid, he stoops and picks up the star. On alternating turns, we'll add additional stars, until we each have a chance to pick up ten stars. If you lose your balance and fall, or if you fail to retrieve all your stars, you lose. We call this game what?
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