Classic Board Games

Like Monopoly, Risk, Cluedo. When was the last time that you played with any of these? My personal favourite is risk. I just love conquering all the continents. Ingredients: the game, a couple of friends, something to eat and drink, and daylight (so no electricity would be used).

A picture of the box, table, units, dice and cards of the game "Risk". Picture courtesy of whoever made it, plus the makers of Risk.

Another favourite board game of mine is CashFlow by Robert Kiyosaki. Ingredients: a game master, at least 3 players, game papers (included, but can be reprinted easily), calculators, pencils and erasers and 3 hours of free time. This game is educational! And I'm usually the game master. Muha. None of them need a battery. (okay, the calculator does, but I'm sure most of you can add two numbers on paper - plus the simpler calculators can run without batteries if enough light is provided - Dan)

Logo of the game called Cashflow. Logo courtesy of Robert Kiyosaki.

Dan - And just to add some of my info to this post, here're my takes on the subject (and also, adding some pictures for the viewer's sake, and labels for Google, because, frankly, Google needs love too).

So what's my favourite tabletop game? The original Tabletop RPG games, of course. All you need is a book of rules, a trunkload of imagination, a game(or quest)master, paper, light, dice (6, 10, 20 sided - depending on the actual game you're playing) and some friends to play with. If you have no idea how this may look like, imagine you are in the world of Lord of the Rings. Imagine you are a soldier, equipped with some awesome elf-sword in a mithril armor, fighting the hordes of Uruk-hai. Did that? Good! At this point, after having your character created and written down, the gamemaster takes over and he tells you what actually happens in the world he created, what quests you may take, who you meet, who you fight. It can be an incredibly fun game to play, and it may even enhance your imagination!

Dan out.

A Toy _with_ Batteries (kidding) - part 2

Hey everyone, this is Dan reporting in from a town near you (which means I'm all over the world), hopefully..

Just by looking at the picture and analyzing what Gabs wrote it is quite an interesting toy, you see. First of all, it is more like Batteries with a Toy (that uses no batteries). This can be noted from the package that says "FREE Lego Set GRATIS" or something like that. Its actually a win-win situation, because dad gets batteries that he can put into cameras, mp3 players, lose some, and so on, and the kiddo can get a lego set which he can build and rebuild and then finally stick the little pieces into the little spaces of the car that dad's hand can't reach, just like I did.

The other funny thing about this set is at the top: "2 to collect!". Does that mean, that if I buy the other part (whatever that may be), I become a collector? (with 24 AA batteries) Strange questions..

A toy _with_ batteries (kidding)

Okay, this is going to be probably the only type of exception when a toy comes WITH batteries. The whole point is to use it WITHOUT them. But nuff said. Look at the picture, and see for yourselves! (also the logo comes from this piece of toy :-))

Toys Without Batteries

It was the Night of Xmas 2008 when, after lightning the sparkling bits, my brother (co-author) and I started having fun with them. Lightning two sparklers we immediately made the connection between an airfield technician and ourselves thus diverting (imaginary) traffic in our living rooms.

From this came the idea to collect all the toys that are a far more fun to play with than World of Warcraft and they usually cost a fraction of a monthly subscription. So. We will have videos. On youtube. Embedded here (cuz we're web2.0 compliant people). For teh lulz.