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Let’s play.

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It’s Friday.

I think you have to.

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I excel at very few things in life, so when it comes to games.. I stack the deck.

I like to play what I win.

And there are three games at which I am virtually unbeatable.

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Scrabble.

We have one these fancy spinning boards in the man cave/Barn Mahal and on rainy days I love nothing more than mixing a drink and beating the pants off my spouse.

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Trivial Pursuit.

I am a font of useless knowledge and have loved this game since its inception way back in the dark ages of 1981. My husband has yet to beat me (at the original or any of the additional card sets) which makes me love it even more.

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Gin Rummy.

Seven cards, down and dirty. None of that ten card easy matching shite. My mother was a shark and taught me how to play with no mercy when I was a child. My husband, who loves to play Cribbage and Pinochle… quakes when I break out a deck.

How about you?

What’s your go to rainy day game…

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31 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. You make me quake just thinking about playing against you! I once met a scrabble tournament champion who talked about the game in a whole new way for me! I can beat my husband (who is worked wicked smart) in gin rummy *sometimes*. That’s our go-to game. We also play several card and board games; right now we’re obsessed with something called 7 Wonders Duel. I’ve just gotten so I can beat him half the time with that sucker. It does give me pleasure.

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  2. 31, a card game, is our go to around here. I can’t get my wife to play Trivial Pursuit because I always win. I remember going to Trivial Pursuit parties in the 80’s.

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  3. I liked Trivial Pursuit back in the day – it’s best played with 4 people I think. Scrabble was the only game I played with my husband. I don’t play cards much to my husband’s dismay – he comes from a family of devoted card players – their game of choice is cribbage. I never much cared for ‘table’ games as a child even tho I learned them, and was coerced into playing them. My father was a card player who taught us poker and 21 as soon as we could learn to count – that’s how desperate he was to have someone to play with. I will never understand people’s devotion to Monopoly.

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  5. Yesterday it was scrabble (a game I finally won against my wife), sometimes skip-bo. But these are also games played whenever as well. So I guess I don’t have a specific rainy day game.

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    1. we also have the game of life, lehigh valley-opoly [local version of monopoly], clue, scattergories, cards against humanity and the mad magazine game (where the objective is to be the first to lose all their money. I had this board hame when I was 8 , saw it cheap on Ebay had to own it again 😁), Uno, Black Jack, Hearts & Crazy 8’s

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  7. Scrabble, cribbage, and euchre, No one will play them with me anymore. (One of my nicknames back in the day was the “Ayotollah of Parcheesi,” another was “Gorilla Arms” at a table tennis table). Those were all in my younger days, before I was 70. I didn’t win all the time, against experts, but I made it very difficult to beat me. (My one word record for Scrabble was the word “scramble,” hitting two triple words and a double “m” with that and my “s” pluralizing the down word on the triple word score my opponent had set himself up for, hoping I would not have an “s” because he had 3. 182 including bonus points. We were playing a quarter a point. My best game ever! The “b” was already on the board from a previous play.) Oh, the glory days!

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      2. You only need to be able to count to 31. (A perfect hand is only 29.) There’s not much to it, and you learn as you go.
        I learnec to play crib, as my family called it, before I was 4. I was totally embarrassed in Grace One when the teacher had us count to 50. I counted to 31 easily, but then I said “Go!” She wasn’t s cribbage player, so she had no idea why I could count no higher than 31. I never had to up to then.

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