Sunday, August 09, 2009
Addictive Games
I played this game A LOT in 8th and 9th Grades. The French version, of course! The American-based search engines could not find an image of the Box in French.
I digress. The point is, I played it over and over and over.
All through high school I used to keep a pack of playing cards in my desk at home and play solitaire (another word the English stole from the French) over and over and over instead of studying.
In college, it was backgammon and cribbage.
When we all started to get computers on our desks in the early 1990's, I used to play minesweeper until my eyeballs bled.
And now I can't stop playing Scramble on Facebook! It's a huge waste of time. I try to justify it, but I know I'm just making excuses. Anyone else out there want to confess?
IPLAWGUY
Played backgammon in college, too, but my obsession in middle and high school was Strat-O-Matic baseball, which I not only played for hours on end, but compiled statistics for 150+ players. (Aced my math SAT, too). Game went computerized about 15 years ago and lost its soul to progress.
My major time-suck these days isn't playing games, but reading and replying on blogs. Go figure.
Now it is an occassinal game of SkipBo with my mom whenI am visiting.
Sigh. I miss Danelaw.
as a kid I would have monopoly tournaments that lasted for days For a while I was into chess.
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