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Poet deVine
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0 posted 2000-08-30 11:19 PM


Ok..let's have some fun with this one....choose ANY game (but not the board game 'Life') to describe your personality and tell me WHY you think it does!

Can be a board game (except Life), a card game, a kid's game (duck duck goose?). But you must explain why you think it fits you!

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Alicat
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1 posted 2000-08-31 12:38 PM


I would have to say Chutes and Ladders.  Everytime I feel I'm finally getting somewhere, down the greased rungs I go.  
Dusk Treader
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2 posted 2000-08-31 01:04 AM


"Duck Duck Grey Duck," everybody calls me by the wrong name, and all I ever do is run in circles....

Abrahm Simons

"Keep on dreamin' boy 'cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die" - Blind Melon

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3 posted 2000-08-31 01:50 AM


Tetherball--although I am not quite sure if the description includes the entire game, or am I just the ball?  sigh...there I go with perception of reality problems again.
CocoBaci
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4 posted 2000-08-31 02:32 AM


Hmm... well I'd have to say backgammon
..analize and anticipate situations or issues which can be good and at times be not so good  


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Sudhir Iyer
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5 posted 2000-08-31 02:50 AM


I would side with Alicat (I call it snakes and ladders though...) and for almost similar reasons...

is chess considerable? then that would be the perfect one for me... reasons later...  

regards,
sudhir

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6 posted 2000-08-31 05:50 AM


I read 'Chutes and Ladders' with horror...but fortunately my ally Suddy was there!

CHUTES???

That's not nearly so threatening as sliding down a snake into its fangs at the bottom!!!!

My game?
Boggle.
Without a doubt. Not only do I love words but my life is usually...a boggle...

all over the place...up and down, up and down...

need I say more?

K

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7 posted 2000-08-31 08:36 AM


I'd have to say Scrabble

well because I love the game
and how does it descibe me?
well during the game we search for a word or a letter.... AND I'm always searching for something, always!  

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8 posted 2000-08-31 08:36 AM


Right now...hmmmmm....I'd have to say "Pickle in the Middle".....'nuff said.  Bonnie
Nan
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9 posted 2000-08-31 10:04 AM


Easy beans.... Scrabble... Need I elaborate???..
Alicat
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10 posted 2000-08-31 10:19 AM


Hmmm...after much considerable pondering and musing, reflecting upon the economic difficulties faced by looming student loans coupled with a low income job, I would have to change my choice from the aforementioned game, to one called 'The Great American Welfare Game'.  Yawp, and it was a real board game, back in the early 80's.  Right now, I'm stuck in the 'working man's rut', paying left and right, taxes up the wahoo.  Now, if I could just be belligerent, I could end up on 'Easy Street', i.e. Welfare, and live in the lap of luxury (as compared with my present situation, anything would be luxury   ).
Sudhir Iyer
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11 posted 2000-08-31 10:21 AM


Hey I love SCRABBLE too...  

chess actually makes me think hard
scrabble makes me think, period!
but snake and ladders make me think hardly ...


some work hard, others work hardly
either way somethings get done for
those who work hard get the others' work to do,
they complain hard too, but then continue to work...

a way of life - extension by Me        

regards,
sudhir

juliet_2u
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12 posted 2000-08-31 10:58 AM


Ummm after giving this much thought, I would have to say it's the board game, Aggravation. Just when you think you're almost home, ya finally made it, someone comes along and knocks you back 10 spaces,lol. Be hey what doesn't kill us (or make us lose in this case) only makes us stronger huh? This was great fun.
Juls

doreen peri
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13 posted 2000-08-31 11:52 AM


it's a toss up between the following

*darts
*dodge ball
*hide & seek
*chess

if i could explain why, i'd be able to figure out how to stop playing them

thanks for the creative topic   < !signature-->

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Nicole
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14 posted 2000-08-31 12:12 PM


hehehe
K took the one I was going to use!  

For different a reason though.  Boggle is my game cause if you shake me hard enough, somethin's gotta fall into place somewhere!




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15 posted 2000-08-31 02:14 PM


fun idea...Checkers! ..for sometimes I like to allow my opponent to win, just because they need to.  marcy
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16 posted 2000-08-31 02:23 PM


hm...I think I'll side with Satiate. Boggle would definitely describe me, because no one hardly ever understands what I'm saying! And I "Boggle" my husband with my poetry  

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17 posted 2000-08-31 02:54 PM


Hmmm ... gotta be "KerPlunk" cause my marbles are loose enough ... one more stick goes, and I'm in trouble!
Ron
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18 posted 2000-08-31 03:02 PM


Well, let's see. I over-analyze just about everything, I try to plan a few moves ahead, and the story of my life proves that checkmate invariably following mating.

Ah, but how much simpler it would be if real life consisted of only 64 little squares.  

Poet deVine
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19 posted 2000-08-31 03:14 PM


This is really hard! I would have to say 'Pictionary' because my life has been spent trying to get others to understand what I'm trying to say with the scribblings I put on paper!    
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20 posted 2000-08-31 09:02 PM


In my current state of mind I would have to say Monopoly.  Everytime you get all the hotels and houses set up the way you want, some meanie comes along and takes them from you.  
A bit like my life, someone doing wrong, or 'taking' what I've worked so hard for!
LOL  not a happy answer?  No.. ok a happier one???  Then I'd say 'Beetle' cos you are making something beautiful LOL
Sharon, where do you get these ideas??  

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Jamie
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21 posted 2000-08-31 10:17 PM


Simon Says.
Asked the right way there isn't much I would not do for someone.



Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".



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22 posted 2000-08-31 10:37 PM


I would have to say Trivial Pursuit. . . the pursuit of knowledge has always been a big part of my life. . .

To know others. . . to know myself. . .

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That which gives light must endure burning
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23 posted 2000-08-31 11:07 PM


Operation...because I'm always dissecting myself or someone else is...   Hehe.   < !signature-->

*Krista Knutson*

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." -Confucious


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Elizabeth
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24 posted 2000-08-31 11:20 PM


Calvinball. It makes no sense whatsoever.  

Elizabeth

JP
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25 posted 2000-09-01 12:13 PM


Sorry or Aggrivation - cause no matter how hard you try to get ahead, something or someone can come by and knock you back to the begining...

I would also throw twister into the fray, seems like you have to tie yourself up in knots and worm your way over, through and under people to get ahead....

Alas... if only life could be a game of naked twister....


Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
JP

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Christopher
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26 posted 2000-09-01 12:41 PM


LOL @ JP!!!

I would say a combination of Solitaire (self-explanatory), Risk (I always seem to be battling it out with one person or another), and Balderdash. (If you can't impress them with your intelligence, dazzle them with your BS!!!)


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27 posted 2000-09-01 11:29 PM


I'm LOL at JP too!

I thought my Dad invented this game...not sure of the name, I've heard many:

"Marbles" is one name...

O S _ _ _" is another name [yes, same game]

2-4 players...handmade boards...similar to "Sorry" game...

"Oh H _ double hockeysticks" as it's been called....

great game...many a time there were pancakes and coffee served early morning 'cause the game was still going...from the night before...

see...I've told you all, I'm REALLY from midwest folks...

OH yes, why it fits me: because we could change the rules all the time...

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White Wolf
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28 posted 2000-09-02 08:38 PM


Well, I would have to say chess.  I can think  three or four moves ahead most of the time but when I can't, I just make the most irrational, irrelevant move that one could possibly make.  Why?  I am glad you asked.  It causes the other player to lose there perspective.  They rack their brain to try to figure out why I made that move.  They lose their ability to think several moves ahead for about one turn.  When I have lost perspective of the future I just do something totally insane.  People just cock their, look at me funny and wonder why.

The White Wolf

PS  Don't tell anyone though..  


Would the bunny like this nice carrot? I don't bite. Much. :)

Steve B
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29 posted 2000-09-03 10:29 PM


Solitaire...not by my choice     Steve B
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