Yahtzee!

[theultimateend]

As far as board games go, it's... not as terrible as Monopoly.

You know saying that gives you herpes.

God hates people with bad taste in board games.

Monopoly is a friendship-ender.

I guess I just have better friends than most monopoly players .

It brought me and my half brother together. We used to play speed monopoly. Which is essentially the same game with split second decisions and dice rolls. Good stuff. Helped me get pretty badass at math (writing and grammar not so much).

 

[blankedboy]

It's alright. Gets boring after a bit, though.

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[Azaradel]

It's pretty fun to pass the time if you've got nothing better to do, at least if you play it with some fun people.

But I'll take Scrabble over it anytime! (though finding people who genuinly enjoy playing Scrabble is not easy)

 

[The Bread is Delicious]

The whole fun about yahtzee is... I'm not really sure. I've played it all my life and yet I have no idea what makes it so fun to play. Stupid brainwashing board games, they just drag you in and trap you in their flashy pieces and colorful boards. It is fun though, in its own twisted way.

Playing Yahtzee by yourself must be the saddest thing imaginable (no offense Mr. Crowshaw, I'm sure you have a great time playing with yourself regularly.)

That is sad, especially when there is no reason to play it by yourself. On a side note, is that really where he got his name?

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

It's much more fun after a pint or seven.

 

[Spiner909]

It's a lot of fun when you play Yahtzee with Stephen Colbert.

 

[SkullCap]

Whenever I visit the family during the weekends and holidays we play Yahtzee, where the loser has to do the dishes after dinner.

Either that or we play Wii Bowling.

Merry Christmas.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Never played it and don't really want to.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I played the Pokemon yahtzee

 

[GeneralGrant]

Played it a few times. It's very easy to pick up so it's a plus if you're with idiots.

 

[Kilo24]

It's a game that would be interesting to solve for the optimal strategy, but I find that games with such heavy reliance on chance are fairly boring.

 

[TraumaHound]

My parents played this when I was a kid (in the 70's.) I found it some years later and hijacked the dice for a better use: Dungeons & Dragons.

It's alright, as games of chance go. It's kind-of-poker with dice-luck thrown in. As a guy with life-long bad-dice-luck it doesn't hold much appeal for me to play though if there was a drinking game involved I could possibly be enticed to play.

 

[Blatherscythe]

Played it, didn't like it.

 

[Brain_Cleanser]

As far as board games go, it's... not as terrible as Monopoly.

You know what makes Monopoly better? Everything being made of chocolate. It exists, my mom brought one home once. It's far better.

As far as Yahtzee goes, it was never much fun for me, boring and loud. Plastic cup, plastic dice, drove me nuts.

 

[Apathetic Flamingo]

I used to play it with my Grandmother all the time.

 

[WilliamWhite1]

I love Yahtzee. It's a game of wit, if you ask me. Can you figure out where to put your scores with the dice? I don't know. Are you willing to take a gamble that you'll get that small straight?

Go for it. Every time.

 

[Valiance]

Of all the Yahtzee games I have, Showdown Yahtzee and Casino Yahtzee are the best.

The game has some minimal strategy to it, but it's mostly luck, as is obvious in most games involving dice or cards.

 

[Therumancer]

Never been a big fan of Yahtzee, it seems mostly like it was intended to be a way for kids to amuse themselves as much as anything. A step up from say "Hungy, Hungry Hippos" before getting to even more advanced games.

As far as Monopoly goes, well I disagree with some of what people are saying. To my knowlege it was invented during The Great Depression and was intended to be a sort of upbeat escapist fantasy. Basically the illusion of prosperity and such combined with some analogies to what was going on. I also remember hearing somewhere that one of the reasons why the game became so popular was due to a resurgence in World War II where allegedly Parker Brothers were hiding escape tools like files, wire saws, and the like inside the boards. Despite a lot of comments about how horrible the Nazis were, they actually treated a lot of their prisoners very humanely unless they were Jewish, Gypsies, Homosexuals, etc. While some allies were sent to work in factories and such (many of which were bombed by their own side despite the human shield strategy), most who were sitting in prisons were allowed humanitarian aid like board games and such.

Allegedly goverment money went into mass production of monopoly for this reason, and due to the wide distribution and such it ensured it becoming a staple.

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As far as games about backroom dealing and such, really the only game I'm aware of that actually encourages that in rules that I've read is "Dipolmacy". Diplomacy has ruined marriages and such especially at gaming conventions and competitive play.

There are probably others, but that's the only "board game" I can verify off the top of my head.

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Also I will say that Monopoly is as much a game of chance as anything, players have very little control over the outcome of the game due to the cards, and luck of the dice. There is very little to negotiate unless you allow players to selectively choose who faces the penelties on their owned properties and such. There CAN be some strategies and such in a very long running game where a lot of houses and hotels get built up, but the odds being what they are it can be very rare for a game to last quite that long. I've only played a few games that really got moving to the point of any substantial house/hotel building.

 

[Flour]

I know you are joking but srsly . It is easy to make that kind of hyperbolic description about just about anything. I recall someone writing about a modern day house as if it was an archeological find and people who didn't see the pictures didn't realize it.

Spoiler: It's even more fun when you throw in some science and make it sound dangerous.

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On-Topic: Played it a lot, hate it. When my brother and I got really sick of it because our parents forced us to play it, we just started throwing the dice.

 

[syndicated44]

I think the only reason people play Yahtzee is to able to scream it at the top of their lungs.