<p>Spit is fun too, when there are just two people around:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.pagat.com/patience/spit.html[/url]”>http://www.pagat.com/patience/spit.html</a></p>
<p>Here’s a few that my family has enjoyed (that haven’t been mentioned above)…
word games get their own category around here:
Boggle (and Boggle Master), Quiddler (from the makers of Set), Word Thief (<a href=“http://thehouseofcards.com/word/wordthief.html[/url]”>http://thehouseofcards.com/word/wordthief.html</a>)</p>
<p>others:
Xactica (also from the makers of Set), Kings Cribbage (Scrabble meets Cribbage is the easiest way to describe it)
Blockus also has a smaller travel version for just two players that we have liked so far</p>
<p>We’re big Scrabble players, also love Cranium, which is a mixture of all the best games!</p>
<p>I got Movie Scene It for Christmas, and S got Harry Potter Scene It. We’ve been having loads of fun with both games. Mad Gab is another favorite. Our favorite “party” game, when the group is large enough, is Mafia.</p>
<p>My favorites are Taboo, Catch-Phrase and Scrabble (you can tell that I’m verbally-oriented). At December family gathering, my kids get together with their cousins (ages 13 - 22) and play mega-dreidel games and two card games (Spoons and Egyptian Rat Screw - don’t ask!).</p>
<p>Canasta. Uno. Jenga. The Worst Case Scenario Survival Game.</p>
<p>I’ll send $1 to anybody* who has ever played our favorite game, “Coup d’Etat” by Parker Bros. It’s an old game, only available on Ebay now. It’s so complicated that we still have to look up rules now and then - even though we’ve played it for well over 20 years! Ha. No wonder they quit making it.</p>
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<li>You’d have to answer some obscure rule though to cash in. And believe me, there are plenty to choose from.</li>
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<p>Cheers - I like the sound of that game you’ve described.</p>
<p>D loves games, and so do her friends. First night home, they got together to play Balderdash. One of the first things she did in college, was have a game night (heaven forbid she should go off without her Trivial Pursuit cards!) for the people on her floor, to meet people. She is on the Quiz Bowl team, and just yesterday, one of her friends came over to our home to play TP (literary edition.) They sometimes make up their own rules - I was their phone-a-friend.</p>
<p>How about Miles Bourne (sp?)? It was a favorite when I was in middle school, don’t think I’d know how to play now if I tried.</p>
<p>Weenie, plenty of obscure rules here: <a href=“http://www.pagat.com/com/coup_detat.html[/url]”>http://www.pagat.com/com/coup_detat.html</a> ;)</p>
<p>mathmom:
I got a good chuckle out of this, “They are reproduced here for the benefit of anyone who has the game equipment but has lost the rules.” Yeah, no kidding! I printed it out just in case we lose ours! :)</p>
<p>New favorite from Christmas: Pop 5 by Cranium. D has had a few Pop 5 get-togethers this vacation, & everyone loves it. The family played one evening & we were howling. You are given a choice of humming, acting out, sculpting, doodling, or rolling letter dice to create clues. Very funny!</p>
<p>Balderdash & Pictionary are also great. 10yr old son got Risk for Christmas, & it took forever just to set up neutral armies & choose territories for a two player game. Then the crazy horde from next door visited, & game had to be packed away. Didn’t want any soldiers or cannons being stuck up the pre-schoolers’ noses.</p>
<p>We play poker or rummy royal at family get togethers with my husband’s family; with my family, we play Mille Borne or Pictionary. I like Scrabble, but my husband takes forever on his turns unless we put him on a timer. </p>
<p>I play a card game with my younger D, we deal out a hand, then put a card in the middle, and we have to use the cards in our hand to add, subtract, multiply or divide to get the number on the card in the middle. (We take out face cards, but leave the joker as a wild).</p>
<p>We loved to play Pente - but it was a lot more fun with 3 or more players, and teams made it even more fun. Played Texas Hold 'Em over New Year’s eve with Ds and D’s boyfriends - had a blast - and did quite well - 
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<p>We also play a domino game that is similar to Texas 42, which we call Moon.<br>
Hearts, Spades, and Trivial Pursuit always played at family get-togethers.
I love Risk, but it can get out of control timewise.</p>
<p>We have a travel game that a friend taught us that she called “Jotto.”<br>
One person chooses a 5-letter word (the “target word”), and then the other player(s) call out other 5-letter words and the person with the target word lets them know how many letters from the word they have chosen are in the target word. This continues until the players figure out the letters, and they then have to unscramble them to figure out the target word. Target words with double letters and double vowels make things tougher. Proper names are not allowed. No paper, pencil, etc. allowed. Just your brain - it does make the miles fly by on a long car trip (especially at night).</p>
<p>Has anyone else ever played anything like this?</p>