New board game in the house.
Grandwrex were setting up to play.
It’s Family version of ‘Trivial Pursuit’
Special deck for young children is added.
First I accused them of being babies for using the ‘special’ card deck.
Oldest granddaughter looked askance at me. So I sorta apologized.
We were going along swimmingly, I thought.
I noticed the 2 oldest having a confab on the side.
They decided I couldn’t play anymore.
Naturally I asked why.
They stated I didn’t play ‘right’
And what the heck does that mean?? Hmmm?
I was always ‘winning’
I told them that is exactly what playing ‘right’ means. Of course I was playing ‘right’
Nope. Kicked out. Game blocked.
Voted off the Island.
I thought I taught them to enjoy board games.
I’m sure I paid for that particular one.
Competitive kids.
I’ve been kicked outta playing with the adults too.
No one, and I mean NO ONE beats me at Scrabble.
So I’m not allowed in the games/tournies any more.
On Easter I played a game with my 6yo foster granddaughter. She’s smart & wildly creative.
The game included a bunch of pop-it mats as a playing field, 2 small Sesame Street figurines as game avatars, and a Sesame Street Oscar weeble as the spinner controlling your next move.
The rules mostly resembled Calvinball. Constantly changing and only in ways that improved her standing over mine.
Beck, if it is any consolation, there was a neighborhood rule that my dad and I could never, ever be on the same team. It took all the fun out of playing for me. Yes, I’m very competitive.
I’ve had to deal with those rules by younger competitors. The best defense is to make sure that the rules are available and that your competition knows how to read them. But then, they get frustrated if you use the rules tactic. Better to gracefully lose.
This particular game I was playing was being invented on the fly by the fearless opposition from a random assortment of toys left on the floor by the previous littler kids. Her creativity was matched only by her determination to win at all costs. Totally Calvinball ab initio.
I was just enjoying the heck out of playing the inner game of watching her mind work and pushing gently here and there to watch how / where she’d riff off my [whatever] to turn it to her advantage. Sometimes I’d call her next rules-maneuver on the dot, and sometimes she came at me totally from left field. Great fun.
I predict that one will be a formidable teenager. With any luck I’ll get to watch her grow up, but I strongly doubt it.
I was once playing tic-tac-toe with my 3-year-old granddaughter. She had an X in the center square and upper middle square, so I blocked in the lower middle square. She made her next move ABOVE the upper middle square, outside the grid, and announced she had three in a row. I said “but your last move was not in a square.” She thought for a moment, then drew a square around her last move. At that point I had to admit that she’d won.
We used to play a lot of Trivial Pursuit, in the '80s and '90s. Eventually, everyone decided that they no longer wanted to play against me…I just had too much of a mind for trivial facts.
Same here. Nobody will play Trivial Pursuit with me. Several years ago, I bought the Trivial Pursuit Millennial Edition because I figured it would appeal more to my kids. I was prepared to be a gracious loser. I won. It’s been sitting on a closet shelf ever since. My siblings and I used to play when we got together at my brother’s place. It was always my brother and I against our two sisters, and we always won, so now the others refuse to play with us.
Son-of-a-wrek says I have a big black hole in my head full of trivia and words.
He doesn’t expect I may just retain alot from reading, learning and listening.
If you’re only feeling semi-cooperative, you can try Betrayal at House on the Hill. It starts as a cooperative game, in which you’re exploring a spooky house. When the haunting begins, one player is assigned the job of traitor, siding with whatever spooks or monsters arrive.
The rest of the players gang up on the traitor and the spooks. Recommended for players 12 years or older.
