Games night: Trivial pursuit, monopoly, risk, etc.

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The wife and I were wondering about starting and hosting a "games" evening. We have a nice party basement that needs to be used more often and this is one of the things I do miss from back home. Between family and friends, we did this often and twas a blast. Childish maybe, but a lot of fun nonetheless!
The "games" could be anything, i.e.:
charades
poker
buy a card gut
canasta
rummy
risk
monopoly
trivial pursuit
movie/TV show bingo
siedler
scrabble
pictionary
tabu
hearts
spades
bridge (if someone could teach me)
and on and on...

Details to be worked out later, but the thought is to do this on a Friday or Saturday evening once a month (perhaps twice now and again). Early birds could hit up the Greek or Italian restaurants close by, order pizza or do a pot luck and/or grilling out.
There is also room for kids as we have a three year old and two child friendly puppy-doggies!

Interested?

my gf and I would be interested, we wouldn't play for money though. I'd be thinking more along the lines of trivial pursuit, phase 10, uno... but if you did it every month a few games an evening would be fun.

we'll see where this thread goes ;-p

Am a huge Trivial Pursuit Fan! Would Singles be welcome?

This is not a couples only event.
At every beach reunion my family has, we have a spades tournament. Your partner gets drawn from a hat and you go until you lose. The winners keep playing and the losers party. Sometimes it is good to lose!
As for money, we usually play penny poker, although buy a card gut can get into the BIG money, say €1.50 or so.

I would LOVE this! Especially Trivial Pursuit. I have a 3 year old who would love a new play buddy as well. My husband HATES games, so I guess he wouldn't come, but sounds cool to me... PM me if a date comes up.

I could bring Scattergories and Cranium in English.

Cheers! Lisa

definately interested - can also bring along a four year old for the three year old and a 7 year old who loves games (and gives me a real run for my money in chess).

I would be interested in a Triv Pursuit night

Ok, looks like a go on a games night considering so many "yes's" on a Sunday night. Seems a void does exist in this area. We could start it as early as next weekend as far as we are concerned and then make it a monthly event or semi-monthly event. We love playing games and just haven't done that for far too long.
I have the cards for Trivial Pursuit "Know it all" edition (xmas gift from my sister-don't ask ). Don't have the board though.
Of course, more than one game can be played at a time and then switch off as you like.
For those with kids, you can come earlier in the late afternoon and let the kiddies play (Ian usually goes to bed around 8, but not always). There is a playground across the street, we have a garden and we could get the neighbor's Au Pair to look after them once the "adult" games begin. They can all "camp out" when going to sleep. We have a nice selection of childrens videos and British TV (Cbeebies and such).
I would imagine the games starting around 8ish with any sort of dinner hour being between 6 and 7ish. Children playing together is of course anytime after 4ish when Ian gets up from his afternoon nap and fully wakes up. Prior to fully waking up, he is a little grump!

sounds like fun...count me in!

in English I also have Triv (although it´s 10 years old now.) Taboo, and Scattergories.

OK, it looks like the first night of games will involve Trivial Pursuit. Darn and I was sooo looking forward to Shutes and Ladders.

Maybe the 3 year olds will play with you!

I'ld be interested in a Trivial pursuit night.

This is a great idea, I'd love to come along. It really does depend on the date, though.
Regarding Triv - it's a bit tricky to play with an international crowd, because the questions are always a bit country-biased.
I have played before with e.g. Canadians and Americans using my Brit set and they understandably do not have a clue about (e.g.) who played Hilda Ogden in the British soap Coronation Street... Which suited me fine, because that meant I always won (just kidding)
Will you have different sets of questions for the different nationalities?
When were you planning on having the first evening? I would vote for the weekend of 28th/29th.

I certainly like the idea of a game night but I really suck at Trivial Pursuit so I don't find it much fun.

Is anybody besides me interested in playing Scrabble? Or other word games? I know a *lot* of word games (most with no boards or pieces required--just your voice or pencil and paper).

eurovol, you must have read my thoughts - of last Friday afternoon at about 5 p.m., to be precise. Was just thinking, wouldn't a nice game of Trivial Pursuit be just the ticket for one of those dull winter evenings...

yep, up for Trivial, up for Scrabble, and after a few drinks, up for Charades too. No male or underage appendages, just my little self.

a great idea, and thanks for suggesting it.

Saan, disturbing, but my gf might...she's german so you might be able to win, lol

As for trivial pursuit, I have an american 20th anniversary edition, all questions are from 1982-2002...it's less than a year old, so in great condition, only played it with the gf a couple times...actually it's hers, I bought it for her cause she was born in 1982, so she'd have no excuse that the questions are "before her time"...anyways, game on

I would be interested! And I could also bring along "Catchphrase" which is always a great fun game at various parties. I have it as electronic version available and is easy to play.

I'd be up for some Trivial Pursuit. I could bring my Canadian version of Monopoly...instead of houses it has igloos!!

Monopoly with igloos, awesome. I'm from Minnesota, it's the frozen tundra of the states, so I underdstand, lol

I will be up for rummy but only for real money.

Sat. Jan 22?

Sat. Jan 29?
Topsy

Main game-trivial pursuit

Side games: Scrabble, etc?

I'd vote for Sat. 29th. I'm not a big Triv P. fan but it looks like they'll be enough people to have a few games going on.

I played this really really fun game at home. There's cards that have catagories on them. One person reads a topic, say movies would have a title to a movie. Everyone makes up what the movie is about then one person reads everyones and you vote for whih one is the true movie. Anyone remember the name of that game. It gets really fun especially with a couple drinks and creative people.

I love monopoly too if anyone wants to play.

Winegirl - that sounds a bit like nobodys perfect, but in that game it's not just about films. There are questions about what words mean, why things happened etc and everyone makes up an answer and then has to guess which answer is the real one. You get a certain number of points if you guess right and a certain number of points if people fall for your answer. It's a board game, and you get to move on the number of points you win per go... We've played it in teams of two before, and you're right, after a few drinks it's hillarious... Don't have a copy though unfortunately and all the copies I could get hold of are in German...

We could play drink the beer. Every time you drink a beer, you win another beer... now just to get funding...

Sat 29 suits me too.

Oh dear, Scrabble, Trivial P., the games Kathie & Winegirl suggested all at the same time ... decisions-decisions...

29th is no good for me, its a hashing saturday. But then maybe I can make the next one.

@Kathie, yeah that sounds like the game. Movies was just an example. It had the other catagories too. Thought it had a different name but the game you described is def what I'm thinking of.

any time is good.

would love to play trivial pursuit! used to be one of my favorite games!

My husband and I would love to come too.

I love scrabble and I'm ok at trivial pursuit.

It would be nice to meet all of you TT's.

Definitely would be interested, especially in Trivial Pursuits !
Can't make Sat 29th though but would love to join any other time

So, it looks like Sat. the 29th is the winner for this month. Actually, it is also better for us. Seems work has reared its ugly head for both the wife and I and we will be rather frazzled over the next week or so.
There is room enough to have several games going on at one time.
So, for Trivial Pursuit, we will obviously need various country editions and a board. The wife will probably not play TP unless there is a German edition on hand.
We have a Scrabble, Scotland Yard, Backgammon and more decks of cards than you can count.
For the first go around, we will probably just order out-Chinese or Thai.

Snacks: We will have some Chips and dips on hand. Other than that, it is bring what you want and BYOB. There is a Tenglemann next door for local purchasing.

Eh, will Gator Fan be playing?

(ya, read 2 many profiles; and no offense, GF)

Looks like nobody is into rummy

Not to worry roots, there will be a gambling evening of rummy and poker.

Ok, the date is set and it will be the 29th. It is also now on the calendar of events.
PM me for directions and confirmation.
Also, we need to know what games, if any you will be bringing? If you are most interested in the Trivial Pursuit, then what edition you can bring and who has a board? BTW, how many can play that at one time? I have not played that since being in Germany and that is going on 8 years now.
If you have other games not mentioned but would perhaps like to play, then bring them too. It has been my experience that the side games tend to be very different than planned based on who shows up and what the mood is.
Ok, Who is coming and whatcha bringing?

Details:
Food-ordering out around 6ish (pizza, Chinese, Thai, Indian, alles möglich).
Social hour-around 7ish (that means non-eaters are welcome at this time)
Let the games begin-8ish

See you there.

PS: Those with young'uns PM for earlier times and activities.

It depends on how many you want to have on a team.
If I remember correctly, there are 6 "counters" so if you intend to play individually then only 6 can play...Otherwise the number is totally up to yourselves.

great idea! please be sure to post the date for game night #2 if the first is a success. . unfortunately the 29th doesn't work. i have a closet full of games, but since living in munich they are more of dust collectors.

Ok, is the 29th (this coming Saturday) not a good night?
Who is in on the 29th and who who would be in on the 12th of February?
If there is enough interest, we will do both.
Games to be determined by what the people who show up want and have brought with them.

Sadly, I can no longer make either date
I was really looking forward to a good game of Triv - guess it will just have to wait...

Yeah, I hae gotten a few PMs along the same lines for the 29th. Any date is good for us except the last weekend of February. Give me the dates and lets plan this thing before the beer gardens open.

we're just wondering where it is, but we're 90% sure we would like to go...we'd be driving from Seefeld.

29th sounds great for us...no plans and all, which is kinda rare.

So is the 29th off or is it still going on?

Not sure what the outcome was with this, but let me know if it is going ahead. Would love to come if we are free.

Not sure what the outcome was with this, but let me know if it is going ahead. Would love to come if we are free.

Firefly, I'm going, and I hope several others...so just pm him and he'll give you directions

looks like the 29th may well be a working Sat. for me. Any Sat. as of mid-Feb should do for me. Anyway I'm not in the cards, bridge &c. contingent, but in the Triv/Scrabble brigade.

If you do go ahead this Sat. have fun though!

I got several cancellations and so just brought the question up again.

Yes, it is a go on the 29th. I need firm confirmations on who is coming and what games they will be bringing.

hello Eurovol, I can't make it on the 29th as am skiing!
but wish you guys a great time and if you decide to hook up again I'd like to come!

Jo.

who has said they ARE coming? Petra and I will bring Trivial Pursuit 20th anniversary (american) ...which has all questions from 1982-2002.

Need to now by tomorrow (Thursday) who all are coming?
As there is finally some good snow, many are going skiing-very understandable, I would go myself if I didn't have so much other stuff to do.
So, let me know. Thanks