<p>Hey-- mkm hit post # 9100!! party time!!</p>
<p>And as for paying3tuitions, lets start a wedding registry for p3t’s big bro!! Don’[t kow if this is a first marriage or not-- but let’s assume he doesnt “need” much.
OK- my contribution:
<p>next…???</p>
<p>His third marriage, her second…</p>
<p>Yes, they deserve some joy. Thanks jym626, you’re a sport. I haven’t bought a wedding gift for anyone over aged 60 before! Ideas welcome!!</p>
<p>p3t-
I am recommending that you drink the first 1/2 of each bottle that arrives to be sure that is is good enough for your big bro and his new bride!
:D</p>
<p>I just heard of a new game for Hanukkah and ordered it for my SIL. It’s a No Limit Texas Dreidel game. :D</p>
<p>Combines Poker and Dreidels. And stacks of chocolate gelt. As they said on the website, there are no losers when you can eat your chips!</p>
<p>As for the wedding registry, how about Harry & David’s Fruit of the Month club? They can combine the wine & fruit to make sangria!</p>
<p>Bridge, Canasta, Mah-Jong - I don’t know how to play any of those games, but would love to learn. Is is okay if I sit in and watch a few rounds?</p>
<p>LIMOMOF2 - pull up a chair. If you can find one of course. If not, we keep the broken ones out back. Once every six months an itinerant pedlar comes by and fixes them. If we are lucky he’s been by recently.</p>
<p>I am, I admit, somewhat astonished to see our SA denizens occupied in games that have rules. I guess even when we are Born to Be Wild occasionally we need to sit down and chat.</p>
<p>I will serve the food. I am prone to cheating at games so it’s best I stay out;).</p>
<p>^^ hilarious, mommusic. And flaming shots of Manischiewitz?</p>
<p>^^^ “flaming shots of Manischiewitz” – count me in! How could I resist this gathering?</p>
<p>alu–thanks for reminding us who we are and what we are about. 
I guess we all learned to Play Nicely in kindergarten and it’s still in us somewhere!</p>
<p>Speaking of rules, have you all heard of the card game Mao? Our kids play it and the best description I can give is it’s sort of like Hearts but there are widely varying secret rules, penalties, etc. which can only be discovered by playing. See Wikipedia for a fuller description:</p>
<p>[Mao</a> (game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(game]Mao">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_(game))</p>
<p>“flaming shots of Manischewitz?” </p>
<p>Of course. To complete the menu, latkes flambe.</p>
<p>If Kinky Friedman was a game this would be it.</p>
<p>I’d actually describe Mao as more like Uno. There’s a couple of good versions on line where they teach you exactly the way you are forced to learn in real life, since a key rule of Mao is that you aren’t allowed to be told the rules. [Rules</a> of Card Games: Mao](<a href=“http://www.pagat.com/eights/mao.html]Rules”>Mao card game rules)</p>
<p>Right, mathmom. Maybe with a bit of hearts thrown in, depending on what rules they are playing by!</p>
<p>OK, Mommusic, I have to look into that Texas Poker Dreidle game for Chanukah. Excellent. As for mah-jongg, when I was in my (much) younger years, my family belonged to a community pool club, where all the women sat around and played mah-jongg. For some reason, my mother thought it would be hilarious to teach the children how to play, so we had a table with a bunch of 10-11 year olds sitting around playing, imitating the oldsters. One dot, three bam, soap…</p>
<p>This discussion reminds me of a party game called “Psychiatrist” where one person leaves the room and the rest agree on a rule. The person has to figure out the rule from people’s behavior as he/she asks questions. It can drive you batty!</p>
<p>Oh, we used to play Psychiatrist! Haven’t played in years, but it was always hilarious.</p>
<p>Mad Gab is a fun game for all ages. I used it for a little bit of Friday fun when I taught language arts, and it was interesting to me that the ESL students seemed to have a special knack for diciphering the garbled phrases.</p>
<p>Mao is one of our kids’ favorites – (learned it at CTY, naturally), and THE most frustrating card game I’ve ever tried to play. The premise makes sense, but there’s WAY too many rules that you don’t know until you start playing, and then new ones get created along the way.</p>
<p>Good board games: Power Grid is one of the few board games S1 owns that I can stand to play.</p>
<p>He also has Diplomacy, an old, out-of-print game that is like Risk, only better. I managed to find a brand-new, mint condition game on Ebay last year.</p>
<p>See, Alu? Here in the Alley, if we set up a game area and start in with Games on Boards with Rules to Play By… it doesn’t take long for us to put the Sinners Alley imprint on things :D:</p>
<p>Flaming shots of Manischiewitz…Latkes Flambe…Kinky Friedman guest appearance…</p>
<p>So, somebody point me to the No-Limit Texas Dreidel vendor. It will be DS’ dream come true (to be played post Chanukkah when he arrives home).</p>
<p>Ask and ye shall receive here in the Alley.</p>
<p>[No</a> Limit Texas Dreidel Game @ ModernTribe](<a href=“http://www.moderntribe.com/products/Party_Root/no_limit_texas_dreidel_standard]No”>No Limit Texas Dreidel Game - Ages 9 to 99)</p>