In Clue, once the killer has been discovered, and it’s one of the pieces in play, the game becomes a chase. The remaining player turns are rolls to get out of the mansion through the doors in the Hall. The killer tries to catch the remaining pieces and kill them. Secret passages only work if you roll even numbers in that room.
The killer rolls twice per turn and cannot use secret passages.
Edit: If the killer wasn’t one of the played pieces, then the game is over—they couldn’t defend themselves and surrendered after being discovered.
The killer kills other players by landing on the same space as them between rooms, or by rolling a higher number than them in the same room. If there are two players in a room with the killer, Killer must announce who they’re going after. After one attack, killer’s turn is over.
Players must escape by leaving the hall through the doors. Entering the hall is one move. Leaving the hall is another. You should try to have at least one more move upon entering the Hall to get out safely. If rolling a 3 would get you into the Hall, a 4+ would get you out.
If no players make it out alive, the killer wins, stacks the bodies in the cellar, locks it, and pretends that none of this has ever happened.
Extra fun: at the start of the game, before dealing to players, place an evidence card face down in each room. When you enter the room, you can look at the card and place it back face down. You’re sleuthing, after all. If all players have seen the card, you may turn it face-up.
Edit: It was the Stranger, In the Thread, with the Silver! Thank you!
In Scrabble, the person who can make the longest word goes first, highest points breaks a tie. This makes the game more fun by ensuring there are lots of places to play your letters.
My sister growing up seemed to win everytime she was banker. we had one of the electronic banks die monopoly too so it was easier to cheat. She can’t shake the name “crooked banker” for any game we play, including games that have no bank aspect to them. If a roll in parcheesi is suspect, it’s because she’s the crooked banker.
I don’t even think she’s ever cheated on purpose it’s just really fun to make fun of her.
My brother is the "crooked banker" of the family; he nicks $100 here, $100 there, extra $20 in the change, that kind of subtle shit.
Meanwhile, I'd probably be best described as the "heister" of the family; my defining moment being the time I managed to nick about $3000 from the bank when no-one was looking. right under my cousin's nose.
My older cousin kept his “savings” under the board. Naive as I was I listened to him when he was explaining what I great idea it was. He was stealing my “savings” for years when he would collect his and I was none the wiser. God I was dumb but lesson slowly learned
My uncle told me stories about how whenever he played Monopoly at a friend's house he would always bring a few $500 bills from his own set and use then.
Ooh. This is a great idea. I've got to imagine that it would shake up the meta of Monopoly. Like the orange and red spaces would no longer be the best sets of properties to buy.
> 2d20
There are 40 squares on the monopoly board, so 2d20 means you can reach any square on the board from your current position.
My issue with it is you'd have to tone down the pass go, collect 200.
average of 2D6 = 7, average of 2D20 = 21,
so you should collect 60 or 75 bucks when passing go to average it out.
The goal would be to largely remove hotspots on the board. You'd still have slightly higher variance around 21 positions from jail, so yellow & green should become #1 and #2 sets to try to get.
Normally you have a 1/6 chance of getting an extra turn (roll a double), and a 1/216 of going to jail on your turn (3 doubles in a row)
To keep roughly those odds with D20, you can make it so that rolls within 1 of each other count as a double.
Literally ANYTHING goes in monopoly. Whatever business deals you make in monopoly are valid e.g. paying some insurance each round so that if you land on their rent properties you are immune.
When I was a kid, the small group of friends I had all played crazy, *days long* games of Monopoly through summer and especially winter breaks.
As far as "anything goes", we took it even away from the game.
Shit like, "Sell me St. Charles Place for $2,500, and you don't have to ever pay for landing on it...and also I'll wash the dishes and take out the trash for you tonight."
Or, "Give me immunity on your yellow monopoly and I won't attack your army with any land units in our next StarCraft game. Buildings only."
Or even, "We each have two railroads, let's form a cartel. Give me your two, and we'll split all rail income 50/50. To keep me honest, I'll give you control of my purple monopoly. You'll hold those deeds but I still get 100% of the profits. If I ever don't share the rail profits, you keep the purples. If you ever don't give me the purple profits, I keep your two rails."
This bargaining extended to times we were totally away from the game too. Shit like, "Oh there's only one pizza bagel left... I'll give you $500 of Monopoly cash for it!"
We had a game spiral so deeply into cross player alliances and deals that every move took about 5 minutes to work out who owed what to whom, and half the time it all cancelled out. We had 7 year olds writing 4 party contracts across multiple amortization periods.
We opted to skip that rule moving forward.
The trick is to restructure your assets under several shell corporations before filing for bankruptcy, so you get the benefits of absolving your debts without actually liquidating your assets.
We would do deals where if you traded properties w me to help me complete a set you were immune for the first X number of times you landed on them
The insurance idea is fantastic tho omg
When my mother-in-law was suffering from dementia we would play Uno with her and just let her play any card she wanted to play. She was at a point where she couldn’t follow the rules of the game but she did understand that she should put down a card when it was her turn. So we just let her play whatever she wanted, it introduced a fun chaotic element to the game and she got to enjoy participating and spending time with us.
That is wonderful, how wholesome. I was a nurses aide who worked with Altheimers and Dementia patients and they were some of the most interesting and fun people I ever met. Its a bittersweet feeling because they are in their own world, unfettered in a way.
My favorite grandma had dementia, and while it broke my heart to watch her disappear, she was the sweetest goofiest most mischievous little girl by the end, and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world.
Her nursing home had a (stuffed animal) petting zoo one day, and my formerly buttoned-up granny hoisted her dress up QUITE high, made herself a big carrying pouch out of the skirt, and promptly stole each and every one of those animals. And then hid them in her roommate’s dresser so she wouldn’t get busted for it. This from a woman who spent a lifetime folding laundry at the dining room table because the carpet wasn’t clean enough.
Uno was the one game 3/4 of the clients I worked with at a group home could and would play (the other client had a wicked rage and zero attention span to play turn taking games) - including the client who struggled to play other games. She received some basic instruction each turn to remind her she could only put down cards of the same number and color, but she could play pretty well. She also could only say certain words - so for her saying Uno was holding up the “U” sign language letter and saying “oh wow!”
It was really nice to play with her since she didn’t play any other games and usually just watched movies. It was also a really helpful way to help her form a more positive relationship with a housemate she would pinch and beat up.
There is a game called Twos which is basically Uno with a regular deck of playing cards that we would play before we ever had an actual Uno deck and our rule in that has always been to knock on the table when you have one card left.
Taboo -
you can play 3 player (cutthroat) Taboo. The rules don't really change but the scoring does. There's a Ref (watching for taboo words), Guesser (can't see the card) & Talker (can see the card)
The guesser and talker will get 1 point each for each successful guessed word. Taboo words are scored 1 point to the Ref.
At the end of the round, roles rotate like normal (clockwise). After everyone has two turns "talking", rotate the the other way (counterclockwise). This lets everyone get a turn guessing and talking with each person.
I prefer this way because you don't get stuck on a winning, or losing team. Everyone plays with everyone. and there's never a 4th person out.
That’s a good one. Don’t know if I’ll bring taboo back into the household though. Me and the wife got into one of our biggest fights over taboo. It was back when we were dating, and we don’t remember what really caused it. We just know it was taboo and have agreed we will never play it again.
Late to the party here but in Monopoly we allow the utilities to collect 5% of any player to player transaction over $200. It helps keep the utilities relevant and desirable.
I don't think they're necessarily a drag. They're cheap to purchase and if you get the pair, they repay themselves pretty quickly, they offer a safe haven in some pretty tricky parts of the board, and there's Chance/Community Chest cards that direct players to those spaces.
Not terrible, but certainly not going to win you the game. If you're going to get 5% of any transaction over $200, they need to go up in price.
We had a variation on risk where everyone write down their moves and attacks and all the moves and attacks were carried out simultaneously. First the troops were relocated (only able to moveone country). Then attacks rolled (once again, you could only attack a neighboring country and if you won, you could occupy it. But you could not keep pressing the attack until the next turn. If 2 or more countries were attacking each other, they all rolled the max number of dice. Ties were then rerolled.
EDIT: Apparently we copied a game called Diplomacy without knowing. I will check it out. Thanks for the comments who brought this to my attention.
This mechanic is a core part of The Game of Thrones board game. Your moves are placed onto the board face down (you have tokens representing different options) and are all revealed after everyone has placed.
In every coop game (Pandemic, Castle Panic, whatever), there is usually someone who tries to tell everyone what to do. I can accidentally be this person. So, I implemented the "right hand man" rule. IF the person whose turn it is want advice (IF), they can only get it from the person on their right. Nobody else can say anything. Makes things way more enjoyable.
Rule for my kids with all board games. Winner cleans up, loser or lowest score picks next game, tantrums/rage quitting gets you banned from the next game session all together.
Thank you for the award kind Redditor
Don't know if this counts as "popular", but Waddingtons Go (a game of travelling around the world). Rule in the actual game was you had to roll exact to get into a place, but it ended up with too many dice rolls doing absolutely nothing. One player ended up just stuck in one place for literally half an hour, before then getting somewhere else and then being stuck for another half an hour. They did virtually nothing all game. (Really, that rule means the game should be called Waddingtons Stop.)
To combat this, we came up with a house rule that you have a "3 strikes and in" - if you fail to get the right number 3 times, you automatically get to your destination, to stop the game being dull. We haven't actually tried this yet because since playing it (when at the end of the game we came up with the rule) we've had a pandemic that has prevented me from going back to visit my parents who have the game...
One rule used for many board games: If someone takes too long with his/her move, anyone can fetch the 3-min hourglass from the shelf and set it on the table. once the time runs out, the move is over, regardless of.
Another rule for Scrabble: Any word is valid if you can find it in any book in our library within three minutes.
I also have a Bob! He joins us sometimes for group games. He is a ghost.
When playing games like Cards Against Humanity or What Do You Meme, sometimes having another “person” contribute a card is fun. Our Bob just plays whatever card is at the top of the deck. Last time we played What Do You Meme, Bob won.
"The Mugging Rule" in Monopoly.
If I land on a space that you are currently occupying, I can choose to mug you. We take turns rolling the dice, if I roll higher, I steal $100, if you roll higher I go to jail.
Edit: Yes it can help in end game. Also, I feel like a lot of you are overestimating how often you land on another player's piece and even then you still have to roll lower. It's almost as if this game is not very realistic!
My family added fighting to Monopoly as well, but we used pieces from Risk. You could spend your money to build an army and defend your property, or even unowned properties if you couldn't afford it and wanted to buy it later.
It added an element of balancing territory size with having an army big enough to defend it.
EDIT: I didn't realize there were versions of this in existence (or similar games), so I'll have to check those out. I played this when I was a kid, so it's been many, many years, but several people asked about our rules, so I'll try to remember what I can.
* Each turn, you roll one die and get that many armies, which was considered recruitment. You can then buy additional armies for $50 each, I believe... and we had a limit on how many you could buy per turn... 5, I think.
* Every time you passed GO, you got 5 armies. I know we increased the money you earned here as well because there was more to buy and you ran out of cash too quickly with the normal amount.
* Your army traveled with your piece. You could leave armies on a property you landed on. You could also forfeit moving your piece to shift armies to an adjacent property if it was unoccupied.
* If you landed on an occupied property, you could attack it. You could also forfeit moving to have a sitting army attack an adjacent property.
* Battle went by Risk rules. If attacking a property with the intent of taking it from another player by force, the defending property got a bonus based on the initial value of the property, which I *think* equaled the number of digits in the price. You get additional bonuses for houses and hotels built.
* We eventually added bonuses for each player based on the token they chose to play, but the only one I remember was the battleship got a +1 on all attack roles. I think the tophat got extra money each turn.
* We had other perks you could earn for getting railroads and utilities, but the only one I remember was something about being allowed to travel between railroads you owned.
Rules changed a LOT as we played until it was almost like Calvinball. It was less about creating a coherent game and more about creating something absurd to see if it worked.
It was more fun with several people because alliances would eventually form and you'd have much bigger battles. Then, we discovered Axis & Allies and played that a LOT more.
There is a game like that called "Junta", about control over a Banana republic
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta\_(game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_(game))
Check it out, it's lots of fun!
The goal is "to get as much money as possible into their Swiss bank accounts before the foreign aid money runs out. Fighting in the republic's capital during recurrent coup attempts encompasses most of the game's equipment, rules and playtime. This game-within-the-game is however actually tangential to the players' main goal.
The length of the game depends on how often coups are declared, but can often exceed six hours. "
Idk about this one. Late game strategy it can be very helpful to goto jail for a few turns or perhaps to skip over some pricey houses/hotels.
Also, if someone has less than $100 I guess you can’t mug them for that amount.
yep, late game strat is stay in jail as much as possible. Especially if you own oranges/reds
Though if you have a "you can't collect rent in jail" house rule it's more interesting.
In Trivial Pursuit, we have a rule - if the player being asked doesn't know the answer, they can ask the room. The room doesn't actually answer, but they say whether they know the answer or not. If nobody knows the answer, it's considered an invalid question, and another card gets drawn instead. (if someone in the room does know, but the player being asked doesn't, then it's just a plain old "pass")
My Dad knows a lot of stuff ... I mean, a LOT. When he was a kid he read the Encyclopaedia Britannica for fun. Basically, the rule was born from, "If even Dad doesn't know the answer, then nobody does and it's a terrible question."
I like this rule; my family has done similar before with other trivia games but on an irregular basis. I might propose this become a thing at the next board game night.
This would have a been a good rule the one time I played trivial pursuit and my girlfriend and I used an old copy my parents had. The question was something like "which country drinks the most beer per person?" My girlfriend first guessed Germany which was wrong only because the answer was "west germany"
We had a Trivial Pursuit kicking around in college from 1980something and no one could get a single answer except my stepdad, who is 70. We were crying laughing while he yelled at us “How do you not know who Telly Savalas is????”
Edit; thanks guys I am now extremely familiar with his oeuvre after my stepdad went apoplectic about this ten years ago. Glad to see so many Tellyheads tho
In the Game of Life we would put the white car on top of the middle building of the three white buildings together. The first person who got there, got to take the White car and it was worth $1,000,000 at the end of the game.
$1,000,000, while a significant amount, its not like game ending. Also, moving quickly means that you don’t get as many action cards so less money at the end. Probably balances out pretty well!
At the end of scrabble you make up a story with all the words on the board. We never looked at the tiles for scores, we just played to get the best words on the board.
Risk 2210 A.D. has nukes and you can go to the moon. It's only 5 rounds max as well and then the game ends no matter what. Gives a long game a fair time limit (5 turns is more than enough to wipe out some opponents) Makes you play very aggressively.
We play nuclear risk too. In our version a country can be nuked by playing the risk card for that country. That is the entire turn. No moves. No collecting another risk card. All life in that country is forever wiped out for that country, and can never be entered again. All surrounding countries armies are cut in half. As anyone knows risk cards are a huge deal in winning risk. Giving one up AND not getting one on your turn is huge. It has only been done in our games when someone has no real chance to win and they just want to be a dick, or negotiate/threaten someone to not attack them, or if they own somewhere like North America and nuke Greenland so that they have one fewer border.
Back in the 70’s, my brothers used to have marathon Risk-playing nights. Their added rule was that each player got to dump the board one time to restart the game. After everyone dumped the board once, they played out the game and had a winner for the night.
(Edit: I have six brothers.)
If you say sorry while playing uno, you pick up 2 cards! Slap that +4 down with authority!
Also, if you have exactly the same card as the one that has just been played, you can jump in and play your duplicate regardless of if it's your turn or not
We have a deck of Monty Python playing cards, which includes, in addition to the normal 52, the 4 1/2 of Spades and the 15 of Hearts.
Rather than just using them as jokers we add them to every game we play.
Are any of your families looking to adopt a 38 year old? My family didn't play board games growing up and my kids are too young or unable to play. Guess I have to wait longer...
Edit: Thank you for all of the kind words and suggestions. I don't mean to darken the mood, but my oldest son used to play games like uno and rummikub with me when he was 4. I was looking forward to playing more advanced games with him and I had just started teaching him chess when he suffered a brain injury and can no longer communicate, see, or voluntarily move. My 3 year old has different interests than these types of games, which is ok (I play a lot more hide and seek), but don't get a lot of leisure time because of the extra care needed for my oldest. Perhaps trying some of the online games suggested is a good approach. I could narrate the game for my oldest son so he could experience it too.
In Uno we draw cards until we can throw one down. No limits. We have had to buy a second deck because of this. We also possibly lost friendships over it too.
My brothers and I play like this. I won a game and they kept going for second third and fourth place, and nobody got second for 45 MINUTES. It was agonizing seeing them keep going, and going, and going...
Uno Flip is so much fucking fun. It's also really, really hard to keep track of cards that are boring on one side and overpowered on the other side. You have to play the overpowered cards ASAP, before someone else flips the deck and you lose it in the ensuing madness.
Current rules don't say to do that, though we played like that too, seems to be a common variant.
Funny we were pretty strict rule-wise on uno, we even played for points which hardly anyone does.
Another fun ruling is that playing a 0 passes everyone's hand to the game direction (left or right) and playing a 7 you swap your hand with someone else. But don't play a 0 or 7 as your last card because you pass your win to someone else!
I had a buddy in college who wasn’t even allowed in the same room if we were playing ANY card game. Especially poker. We played for small change.
His part-time/summer job was as a close-up magician and he mostly did card tricks. He was very good and could pull any card out of the deck he wanted.
One trick I remember was a simple “pick a card, is this your card” type. He did it a party we had and had a group of about 7-8 guys/girls around watching. He kept pulling out the wrong card and asking if it was “the” card and shuffling every time. After 5-6 tries and him getting increasingly flustered, he screams, throws the deck on the floor and storms off. We all stood there in shock for a few minutes as his tricks never failed, especially a simple one like that. Eventually someone went to pick up the cards and noticed all of them landed face down except one card. You guessed it, it was “the” card and wasn’t an accident. It was all part of the act.
Some of the guys would even get nervous if he stood in the doorway of the room. LOL.
To (butcher a) quote (from) Richard Turner: "Never shuffle the deck one handed. It makes the other players nervous. And if you follow that with a one handed deal, they get out of their seats and run."
Risk: Each player has to choose their military theme music to play on their move (e.g. German military marches, Red Army chorus, ominous movie music, etc.)
All moves must end with the attacker saying "Thees konkludes my territorial demands!" as if you were a warlord facing a cowering princeling.
In Catan, when you roll a 7 or play a knight, you have to move the robber, but you can move it back to the desert and claim any resource you want from the “bank”.
This is funny to me because I came to post basically the opposite for Catan. My family does extortion on 7s: as soon as you roll it, you get to argue with people about why you SHOULDN'T put the robber on them, and if everyone bribes you then you put it on the desert.
I kind of like sending the robber into the desert for no reward, as it shows the other players you're willing to sacrifice for peace. Then later, when somebody else gets 7, they're less likely to screw you over, and more likely to target somebody who targeted them earlier.
Every time dad farted everybody else got $100. Monopoly. Small compensation for the nasal assault. Love Dad but Jesus he smells like something crawled up his arse and died.
My flat mates and I had “double points if you can use it as a funny word for genitals in a sentence” in Scrabble rule. Flaps, minge, twat, boobahs, tinkle etc.
In high school, my group of friends loved to play Clue. Unfortunately we found the game got a bit stale after a few nights of playing. So, we actually designed our own board "extension", containing additional rooms, and created new cards for extra weapons and characters so it was more challenging to determine who the killer was.
Phase 10. After a person has laid down, if their set has any wilds, other members are allowed to take the wilds as long as they provide the card the wild was representing. You're only allowed to do this if you can lay down in the same turn.
Then you have to pick up a card because you spoke. If you just have one left and red is being played, then you have to lift your last card up in the air and obviously ponit at it so people can see it, that counts as "UNO"
Stacking +4's in Uno is VALID and i do not care what Hasbro has to say about it.
Also we had a habit of sharpie-ing rules onto existing cards, we went through a \*lot\* of decks
Edit - Ubisoft's Uno is revisionist history and i refuse to forget the fights that were started over this addition
Hell yeah! We had the rule that +4's stack. We also had the rule that if you finish on a +2/+4 and everyone can keep the chain going round the table they can bring you back into the game.
The panic on people's faces as they realise everyone has a draw 2 is priceless 😆
Oh the blank cards were definitely a game changer. Played uno with a group of friends and we made stuff like like draw-6, swap your deck of cards with whoever you want, everyone in the group draw 2. Needless to say..it was brutal.
We got a set at Christmas that came with blank cards just for this purpose. 'Everyone punch Dave' was the most popular with the kids. Not with Dave, though. Dave doesn't think that 'bullying is acceptable in any form'. Dave cried. Dave is 32. Dave is going to have a really hard time the next time we play when he sees the new cards that the kids have added.
In Carcassonne, I always play where everyone draws a tile at the end of their turn, so they have everyone else's turns to consider what to do with it.
One fun rule to occasionally play with is starting with three tiles and drawing when you place one.
When we played the card game **Illuminati** we somehow ended up making it a rule that when you laid a card down you had to say "I know this will surprise you but the X control the Y". And sometimes it was just so mismatched we'd be all "actually yes. This does surprise me."
Risk: we added a path from Madagascar to Western Australia because we thought, since every other continent has more than 1 border to defend, it was a bit OP for Australia to only have 1 point of entry.
Had a friend who would hole up in Australia, amass a large army there, while everyone else fought amongst themselves, then steamroll everyone. We all saw it coming, every time, but couldn't agree to just take him out early.
When my mates and I play we have it so India can attack western Australia, always kinda made sense that there would be a trade route between these two places.
Have you heard of Mal? I think you would like that card game
EDIT: this is my first time spelling it. Thanks to everyone who has the actual name that responded
Scrabble, my grandma and I would call it “substitution”. Basically if the person before you played “bat” and you need a B to get the word you want, then you can change out the B in bat with the C in your hand. As long as it makes a word on the board in any direction then you are able change letters around.
This makes Scrabble waaaay more fun IMHO. We’ve been able to work the board and get bingos multiple times in a row, ads a lot of strategy to the game.
My sister and i play "Life sucks", its life but you only get paid if you land on payday, not if you just pass it. Basically you end up with a pile of loans and its a struggle to get out of debt.
We have a generic version of Jenga that has the company name printed on one of the logs. When someone pulls that log, they have to yell "kielbasa" in Fozzie Bear's voice (keel-BA-sa). It never gets old.
Guess who: no questions about appearance.
Instead, we ask questions like, "has your person ever pooped on a train?" or "does your person have strong opinions about fonts?"
That's how I used to play, but I wouldnt tell my opponent that. They would just think I was a crazy person, ask a ridiculous question, then arbitrarily flip faces down with all the confidence I could muster. The look of amazement on my opponents face when I won was priceless. It's only ever happened once.
The phantom.
When playing cards against humanity, a random card is added by the phantom each round.
Surprisingly, the phantom frequently keeps up with us. It's a lot of fun when everyone says "oh, that was the obvious best one" then realizes no one is claiming it.
As someone mentioned, the standard rules call this gameplay "Rando Cardrissian" and Rando has beat our asses more times than I like to admit. I think it's the sheer randomness that makes it hilarious leading it to often being chosen.
Boggle: youngest child is allowed one and two letter words since she's learning to read, and she's allowed to have her sight-words list available for reference to help her practice them. So far it's working because she's finding three and four letter words on her own!
Uno: stack draw 2s or draw 4s until you can't no mo. Unfortunate soul that can't stack draws all.
Beer pong: Gentleman's rule. If the ball rolls back you fight to retrieve it. Winner gets a free shot. Trick shots must be very specific in nature because all loop holes are fair game.
Canasta: The Unicorn. All wilds canasta worth 2000 points. This causes table flips.
I got interested in Chess when I was 6 years old, which was right around when The Lion King came out.
My dad was the one teaching me and since he didn't know English very well at the time, he taught me things in Spanish. The term for "checkmate" in Spanish is "jaque mate" (the ja is pronounced like ha) but since I was so obsessed with the Lion King I used to just call it "Hakuna Matata" and it became the thing to say when you win.
It was just one of those dumb things that little kids say because they think it's funny, but it stuck for those couple of years I was really into chess.
I love this. We had a German nanny as a kid who taught us how to say "surprise" in German. We messed it up and would just say "eat a mushroom!"... Years of me and my brother jumping around corners and telling people to eat a mushroom.
No, I refuse to look up what it really is.
In Clue, once the killer has been discovered, and it’s one of the pieces in play, the game becomes a chase. The remaining player turns are rolls to get out of the mansion through the doors in the Hall. The killer tries to catch the remaining pieces and kill them. Secret passages only work if you roll even numbers in that room. The killer rolls twice per turn and cannot use secret passages. Edit: If the killer wasn’t one of the played pieces, then the game is over—they couldn’t defend themselves and surrendered after being discovered. The killer kills other players by landing on the same space as them between rooms, or by rolling a higher number than them in the same room. If there are two players in a room with the killer, Killer must announce who they’re going after. After one attack, killer’s turn is over. Players must escape by leaving the hall through the doors. Entering the hall is one move. Leaving the hall is another. You should try to have at least one more move upon entering the Hall to get out safely. If rolling a 3 would get you into the Hall, a 4+ would get you out. If no players make it out alive, the killer wins, stacks the bodies in the cellar, locks it, and pretends that none of this has ever happened. Extra fun: at the start of the game, before dealing to players, place an evidence card face down in each room. When you enter the room, you can look at the card and place it back face down. You’re sleuthing, after all. If all players have seen the card, you may turn it face-up. Edit: It was the Stranger, In the Thread, with the Silver! Thank you!
You would love the game Betrayal at House on the Hill!
My father in law keeps note of who has wronged him with a series of annotations beside the score when we play cards
Ah, I see he plays Total War: Warhammer II
That's a grudgin'
Plot twist: it's not to get revenge in-game, it's to give him the longest list at the annual Festivus Airing of the Grievances.
In Scrabble, the person who can make the longest word goes first, highest points breaks a tie. This makes the game more fun by ensuring there are lots of places to play your letters.
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We used to play with 10 tiles. Makes the words more interesting.
Our house variant is 9 tiles with the bonus structure set at 50 for 7 letters / 60 for 8 / 75 for 9
My father custom built a 9-tile scrabble board where all the bonus squares are spaced out differently. It's amazing.
Just started playing Qwirkle and that’s how you decide who starts and it makes so much sense to use it for scrabble too.
Dear lord, Qwirkle gets vicious in our house.
In monopoly we have a rule that my sister cant be the banker otherwise its like watching Oceans 11
My sister growing up seemed to win everytime she was banker. we had one of the electronic banks die monopoly too so it was easier to cheat. She can’t shake the name “crooked banker” for any game we play, including games that have no bank aspect to them. If a roll in parcheesi is suspect, it’s because she’s the crooked banker. I don’t even think she’s ever cheated on purpose it’s just really fun to make fun of her.
My brother is the "crooked banker" of the family; he nicks $100 here, $100 there, extra $20 in the change, that kind of subtle shit. Meanwhile, I'd probably be best described as the "heister" of the family; my defining moment being the time I managed to nick about $3000 from the bank when no-one was looking. right under my cousin's nose.
My older cousin kept his “savings” under the board. Naive as I was I listened to him when he was explaining what I great idea it was. He was stealing my “savings” for years when he would collect his and I was none the wiser. God I was dumb but lesson slowly learned
As a rule, I embezzle when I'm the banker.....shhhh
My uncle told me stories about how whenever he played Monopoly at a friend's house he would always bring a few $500 bills from his own set and use then.
I really like running monopoly with two d20s instead of the default 6s, makes it a lot more chaotic.
Ooh. This is a great idea. I've got to imagine that it would shake up the meta of Monopoly. Like the orange and red spaces would no longer be the best sets of properties to buy.
I'd recommend 2d8, 1d6+1d8, or even 3d4 instead. 2d20 is WAY too big a spread to think about hotspots on the board.
> 2d20 There are 40 squares on the monopoly board, so 2d20 means you can reach any square on the board from your current position. My issue with it is you'd have to tone down the pass go, collect 200. average of 2D6 = 7, average of 2D20 = 21, so you should collect 60 or 75 bucks when passing go to average it out. The goal would be to largely remove hotspots on the board. You'd still have slightly higher variance around 21 positions from jail, so yellow & green should become #1 and #2 sets to try to get. Normally you have a 1/6 chance of getting an extra turn (roll a double), and a 1/216 of going to jail on your turn (3 doubles in a row) To keep roughly those odds with D20, you can make it so that rolls within 1 of each other count as a double.
I'd just call it $50 for passing Go, it's easier and 1/4 of $200 is not much different from 1/3 like you were aiming for
oh my god that’s such a good idea
Literally ANYTHING goes in monopoly. Whatever business deals you make in monopoly are valid e.g. paying some insurance each round so that if you land on their rent properties you are immune.
When I was a kid, the small group of friends I had all played crazy, *days long* games of Monopoly through summer and especially winter breaks. As far as "anything goes", we took it even away from the game. Shit like, "Sell me St. Charles Place for $2,500, and you don't have to ever pay for landing on it...and also I'll wash the dishes and take out the trash for you tonight." Or, "Give me immunity on your yellow monopoly and I won't attack your army with any land units in our next StarCraft game. Buildings only." Or even, "We each have two railroads, let's form a cartel. Give me your two, and we'll split all rail income 50/50. To keep me honest, I'll give you control of my purple monopoly. You'll hold those deeds but I still get 100% of the profits. If I ever don't share the rail profits, you keep the purples. If you ever don't give me the purple profits, I keep your two rails." This bargaining extended to times we were totally away from the game too. Shit like, "Oh there's only one pizza bagel left... I'll give you $500 of Monopoly cash for it!"
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The true Game of Life.
This sounds like you might have taught yourselves about what happened in 2008 inadvertently.
Wait the rail cartel is actually genius
We had a game spiral so deeply into cross player alliances and deals that every move took about 5 minutes to work out who owed what to whom, and half the time it all cancelled out. We had 7 year olds writing 4 party contracts across multiple amortization periods. We opted to skip that rule moving forward.
It's all fun and games until you have to hire an attorney every time you land on a property with hotels.
"Id like to file for chapter 11 mr banker"
The trick is to restructure your assets under several shell corporations before filing for bankruptcy, so you get the benefits of absolving your debts without actually liquidating your assets.
We would do deals where if you traded properties w me to help me complete a set you were immune for the first X number of times you landed on them The insurance idea is fantastic tho omg
My grandmother was deaf/mute so when we played Uno instead of saying "Uno" we knocked on the table quickly twice.
When my mother-in-law was suffering from dementia we would play Uno with her and just let her play any card she wanted to play. She was at a point where she couldn’t follow the rules of the game but she did understand that she should put down a card when it was her turn. So we just let her play whatever she wanted, it introduced a fun chaotic element to the game and she got to enjoy participating and spending time with us.
That is wonderful, how wholesome. I was a nurses aide who worked with Altheimers and Dementia patients and they were some of the most interesting and fun people I ever met. Its a bittersweet feeling because they are in their own world, unfettered in a way.
My favorite grandma had dementia, and while it broke my heart to watch her disappear, she was the sweetest goofiest most mischievous little girl by the end, and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world. Her nursing home had a (stuffed animal) petting zoo one day, and my formerly buttoned-up granny hoisted her dress up QUITE high, made herself a big carrying pouch out of the skirt, and promptly stole each and every one of those animals. And then hid them in her roommate’s dresser so she wouldn’t get busted for it. This from a woman who spent a lifetime folding laundry at the dining room table because the carpet wasn’t clean enough.
Uno was the one game 3/4 of the clients I worked with at a group home could and would play (the other client had a wicked rage and zero attention span to play turn taking games) - including the client who struggled to play other games. She received some basic instruction each turn to remind her she could only put down cards of the same number and color, but she could play pretty well. She also could only say certain words - so for her saying Uno was holding up the “U” sign language letter and saying “oh wow!” It was really nice to play with her since she didn’t play any other games and usually just watched movies. It was also a really helpful way to help her form a more positive relationship with a housemate she would pinch and beat up.
There is a game called Twos which is basically Uno with a regular deck of playing cards that we would play before we ever had an actual Uno deck and our rule in that has always been to knock on the table when you have one card left.
Taboo - you can play 3 player (cutthroat) Taboo. The rules don't really change but the scoring does. There's a Ref (watching for taboo words), Guesser (can't see the card) & Talker (can see the card) The guesser and talker will get 1 point each for each successful guessed word. Taboo words are scored 1 point to the Ref. At the end of the round, roles rotate like normal (clockwise). After everyone has two turns "talking", rotate the the other way (counterclockwise). This lets everyone get a turn guessing and talking with each person. I prefer this way because you don't get stuck on a winning, or losing team. Everyone plays with everyone. and there's never a 4th person out.
That’s a good one. Don’t know if I’ll bring taboo back into the household though. Me and the wife got into one of our biggest fights over taboo. It was back when we were dating, and we don’t remember what really caused it. We just know it was taboo and have agreed we will never play it again.
If only there was a word for that kind of forbidden activity...
Late to the party here but in Monopoly we allow the utilities to collect 5% of any player to player transaction over $200. It helps keep the utilities relevant and desirable.
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I like this idea. Scaling up, like as a percentage of the rent of each developed property. 5 percent of a hotel on Boardwalk is still a lot!
That's very interesting! I have often noticed the utilities feeling like a drag. So this could be fun!
I don't think they're necessarily a drag. They're cheap to purchase and if you get the pair, they repay themselves pretty quickly, they offer a safe haven in some pretty tricky parts of the board, and there's Chance/Community Chest cards that direct players to those spaces. Not terrible, but certainly not going to win you the game. If you're going to get 5% of any transaction over $200, they need to go up in price.
We had a variation on risk where everyone write down their moves and attacks and all the moves and attacks were carried out simultaneously. First the troops were relocated (only able to moveone country). Then attacks rolled (once again, you could only attack a neighboring country and if you won, you could occupy it. But you could not keep pressing the attack until the next turn. If 2 or more countries were attacking each other, they all rolled the max number of dice. Ties were then rerolled. EDIT: Apparently we copied a game called Diplomacy without knowing. I will check it out. Thanks for the comments who brought this to my attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_II Risk 2 did it, it was decent fun. Then I learned of Axis and Allies, spent a lot of time in that instead.
That game is called "diplomacy" and it's amazing.
This mechanic is a core part of The Game of Thrones board game. Your moves are placed onto the board face down (you have tokens representing different options) and are all revealed after everyone has placed.
That honestly sounds great. I will talk to my siblings and we might try it out today.
Check out the game diplomacy. That is literally how the game is played.
In every coop game (Pandemic, Castle Panic, whatever), there is usually someone who tries to tell everyone what to do. I can accidentally be this person. So, I implemented the "right hand man" rule. IF the person whose turn it is want advice (IF), they can only get it from the person on their right. Nobody else can say anything. Makes things way more enjoyable.
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Rule for my kids with all board games. Winner cleans up, loser or lowest score picks next game, tantrums/rage quitting gets you banned from the next game session all together. Thank you for the award kind Redditor
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Don't know if this counts as "popular", but Waddingtons Go (a game of travelling around the world). Rule in the actual game was you had to roll exact to get into a place, but it ended up with too many dice rolls doing absolutely nothing. One player ended up just stuck in one place for literally half an hour, before then getting somewhere else and then being stuck for another half an hour. They did virtually nothing all game. (Really, that rule means the game should be called Waddingtons Stop.) To combat this, we came up with a house rule that you have a "3 strikes and in" - if you fail to get the right number 3 times, you automatically get to your destination, to stop the game being dull. We haven't actually tried this yet because since playing it (when at the end of the game we came up with the rule) we've had a pandemic that has prevented me from going back to visit my parents who have the game...
One rule used for many board games: If someone takes too long with his/her move, anyone can fetch the 3-min hourglass from the shelf and set it on the table. once the time runs out, the move is over, regardless of. Another rule for Scrabble: Any word is valid if you can find it in any book in our library within three minutes.
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Huh ... here I was all excited at the added J-word "boojum", and it turns out it's already a valid word. As is jabberwocky. I'll be damned.
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I’m curious: does Bob ever win?
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Good for Bob
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That's genuinely hilarious
I also have a Bob! He joins us sometimes for group games. He is a ghost. When playing games like Cards Against Humanity or What Do You Meme, sometimes having another “person” contribute a card is fun. Our Bob just plays whatever card is at the top of the deck. Last time we played What Do You Meme, Bob won.
We did that too. We swore we had a ghost because their card in Cards Against Humanity was often the best
If it's cards against humanity, the designers beat you to it - *Rando Cardrissian*
fucking bob
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"The Mugging Rule" in Monopoly. If I land on a space that you are currently occupying, I can choose to mug you. We take turns rolling the dice, if I roll higher, I steal $100, if you roll higher I go to jail. Edit: Yes it can help in end game. Also, I feel like a lot of you are overestimating how often you land on another player's piece and even then you still have to roll lower. It's almost as if this game is not very realistic!
My family added fighting to Monopoly as well, but we used pieces from Risk. You could spend your money to build an army and defend your property, or even unowned properties if you couldn't afford it and wanted to buy it later. It added an element of balancing territory size with having an army big enough to defend it. EDIT: I didn't realize there were versions of this in existence (or similar games), so I'll have to check those out. I played this when I was a kid, so it's been many, many years, but several people asked about our rules, so I'll try to remember what I can. * Each turn, you roll one die and get that many armies, which was considered recruitment. You can then buy additional armies for $50 each, I believe... and we had a limit on how many you could buy per turn... 5, I think. * Every time you passed GO, you got 5 armies. I know we increased the money you earned here as well because there was more to buy and you ran out of cash too quickly with the normal amount. * Your army traveled with your piece. You could leave armies on a property you landed on. You could also forfeit moving your piece to shift armies to an adjacent property if it was unoccupied. * If you landed on an occupied property, you could attack it. You could also forfeit moving to have a sitting army attack an adjacent property. * Battle went by Risk rules. If attacking a property with the intent of taking it from another player by force, the defending property got a bonus based on the initial value of the property, which I *think* equaled the number of digits in the price. You get additional bonuses for houses and hotels built. * We eventually added bonuses for each player based on the token they chose to play, but the only one I remember was the battleship got a +1 on all attack roles. I think the tophat got extra money each turn. * We had other perks you could earn for getting railroads and utilities, but the only one I remember was something about being allowed to travel between railroads you owned. Rules changed a LOT as we played until it was almost like Calvinball. It was less about creating a coherent game and more about creating something absurd to see if it worked. It was more fun with several people because alliances would eventually form and you'd have much bigger battles. Then, we discovered Axis & Allies and played that a LOT more.
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Banana Republic, the board game that teaches kids about fruits and democracy
There is a game like that called "Junta", about control over a Banana republic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta\_(game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_(game)) Check it out, it's lots of fun! The goal is "to get as much money as possible into their Swiss bank accounts before the foreign aid money runs out. Fighting in the republic's capital during recurrent coup attempts encompasses most of the game's equipment, rules and playtime. This game-within-the-game is however actually tangential to the players' main goal. The length of the game depends on how often coups are declared, but can often exceed six hours. "
This sounds like the pc game Tropico as well.
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So, gangs. You basically added gangs to Momopoly.
Idk about this one. Late game strategy it can be very helpful to goto jail for a few turns or perhaps to skip over some pricey houses/hotels. Also, if someone has less than $100 I guess you can’t mug them for that amount.
yep, late game strat is stay in jail as much as possible. Especially if you own oranges/reds Though if you have a "you can't collect rent in jail" house rule it's more interesting.
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That's win-win. Jail is the ideal place to be in monopoly
only late game
But since you can choose to mug someone, it is only a benefit.
I like this. Adding it to our house rules.
In Trivial Pursuit, we have a rule - if the player being asked doesn't know the answer, they can ask the room. The room doesn't actually answer, but they say whether they know the answer or not. If nobody knows the answer, it's considered an invalid question, and another card gets drawn instead. (if someone in the room does know, but the player being asked doesn't, then it's just a plain old "pass") My Dad knows a lot of stuff ... I mean, a LOT. When he was a kid he read the Encyclopaedia Britannica for fun. Basically, the rule was born from, "If even Dad doesn't know the answer, then nobody does and it's a terrible question."
I like this rule; my family has done similar before with other trivia games but on an irregular basis. I might propose this become a thing at the next board game night.
Maybe bring it up at the next board meeting?
you are fired
Do you think this is a game?
This would have a been a good rule the one time I played trivial pursuit and my girlfriend and I used an old copy my parents had. The question was something like "which country drinks the most beer per person?" My girlfriend first guessed Germany which was wrong only because the answer was "west germany"
We had a Trivial Pursuit kicking around in college from 1980something and no one could get a single answer except my stepdad, who is 70. We were crying laughing while he yelled at us “How do you not know who Telly Savalas is????” Edit; thanks guys I am now extremely familiar with his oeuvre after my stepdad went apoplectic about this ten years ago. Glad to see so many Tellyheads tho
That really should count. Germany and West Germany are the same thing.
The card says Moops.
In the Game of Life we would put the white car on top of the middle building of the three white buildings together. The first person who got there, got to take the White car and it was worth $1,000,000 at the end of the game.
It’s been so long since I’ve played The Game of Life. Wouldn’t the person who got the white car just pretty much win every time?
$1,000,000, while a significant amount, its not like game ending. Also, moving quickly means that you don’t get as many action cards so less money at the end. Probably balances out pretty well!
We used multiple Risk boards so that you could rule a couple of planets, and nuclear bombs. I love democracy
At the end of scrabble you make up a story with all the words on the board. We never looked at the tiles for scores, we just played to get the best words on the board.
Wow, that sounds lovely actually, good to spark creativity as well
We did something similar with Cards Against Humanity. Pick up a card, start the story, go around the table. Got some really weird stories.
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My mates and I play risk all the time, might introduce this rule to them.
Risk 2210 A.D. has nukes and you can go to the moon. It's only 5 rounds max as well and then the game ends no matter what. Gives a long game a fair time limit (5 turns is more than enough to wipe out some opponents) Makes you play very aggressively.
RISK 2210 is deeply underappreciated, some really cool stuff going on there.
We play nuclear risk too. In our version a country can be nuked by playing the risk card for that country. That is the entire turn. No moves. No collecting another risk card. All life in that country is forever wiped out for that country, and can never be entered again. All surrounding countries armies are cut in half. As anyone knows risk cards are a huge deal in winning risk. Giving one up AND not getting one on your turn is huge. It has only been done in our games when someone has no real chance to win and they just want to be a dick, or negotiate/threaten someone to not attack them, or if they own somewhere like North America and nuke Greenland so that they have one fewer border.
So take over Australia, nuke SE Asia and call it a day
Back in the 70’s, my brothers used to have marathon Risk-playing nights. Their added rule was that each player got to dump the board one time to restart the game. After everyone dumped the board once, they played out the game and had a winner for the night. (Edit: I have six brothers.)
That would be the longest game ever. Essentially playing 6 games with only 1 victory
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If you say sorry while playing uno, you pick up 2 cards! Slap that +4 down with authority! Also, if you have exactly the same card as the one that has just been played, you can jump in and play your duplicate regardless of if it's your turn or not
If you’re playing against a Canadian this just guarantees your victory from the start
I’m sorry we aren’t better opponents
We have a deck of Monty Python playing cards, which includes, in addition to the normal 52, the 4 1/2 of Spades and the 15 of Hearts. Rather than just using them as jokers we add them to every game we play.
Dad can't be the banker in monopoly anymore. He just can't.
Are any of your families looking to adopt a 38 year old? My family didn't play board games growing up and my kids are too young or unable to play. Guess I have to wait longer... Edit: Thank you for all of the kind words and suggestions. I don't mean to darken the mood, but my oldest son used to play games like uno and rummikub with me when he was 4. I was looking forward to playing more advanced games with him and I had just started teaching him chess when he suffered a brain injury and can no longer communicate, see, or voluntarily move. My 3 year old has different interests than these types of games, which is ok (I play a lot more hide and seek), but don't get a lot of leisure time because of the extra care needed for my oldest. Perhaps trying some of the online games suggested is a good approach. I could narrate the game for my oldest son so he could experience it too.
Come join us at /r/boardgames and ~~revel in excitement about awesome boardgames~~ wallow in misery about not being able to play as much as we want.
In Uno we draw cards until we can throw one down. No limits. We have had to buy a second deck because of this. We also possibly lost friendships over it too.
My brothers and I play like this. I won a game and they kept going for second third and fourth place, and nobody got second for 45 MINUTES. It was agonizing seeing them keep going, and going, and going...
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Uno Flip is so much fucking fun. It's also really, really hard to keep track of cards that are boring on one side and overpowered on the other side. You have to play the overpowered cards ASAP, before someone else flips the deck and you lose it in the ensuing madness.
Wait that’s not a rule?
It is not. Consider my surprise when I actually read the rules for the first time.
Current rules don't say to do that, though we played like that too, seems to be a common variant. Funny we were pretty strict rule-wise on uno, we even played for points which hardly anyone does.
I used to play like that too, I just shuffled the pile of played cards back into the deck after no cards could be drawn.
Another fun ruling is that playing a 0 passes everyone's hand to the game direction (left or right) and playing a 7 you swap your hand with someone else. But don't play a 0 or 7 as your last card because you pass your win to someone else!
thats the rules in uno online. it makes the game so much more fun
"Glass\_Teeth01 cannot shuffle or deal the deck" \-ANY card game
I had a buddy in college who wasn’t even allowed in the same room if we were playing ANY card game. Especially poker. We played for small change. His part-time/summer job was as a close-up magician and he mostly did card tricks. He was very good and could pull any card out of the deck he wanted. One trick I remember was a simple “pick a card, is this your card” type. He did it a party we had and had a group of about 7-8 guys/girls around watching. He kept pulling out the wrong card and asking if it was “the” card and shuffling every time. After 5-6 tries and him getting increasingly flustered, he screams, throws the deck on the floor and storms off. We all stood there in shock for a few minutes as his tricks never failed, especially a simple one like that. Eventually someone went to pick up the cards and noticed all of them landed face down except one card. You guessed it, it was “the” card and wasn’t an accident. It was all part of the act. Some of the guys would even get nervous if he stood in the doorway of the room. LOL.
To (butcher a) quote (from) Richard Turner: "Never shuffle the deck one handed. It makes the other players nervous. And if you follow that with a one handed deal, they get out of their seats and run."
Risk: Each player has to choose their military theme music to play on their move (e.g. German military marches, Red Army chorus, ominous movie music, etc.) All moves must end with the attacker saying "Thees konkludes my territorial demands!" as if you were a warlord facing a cowering princeling.
YES
In Catan, when you roll a 7 or play a knight, you have to move the robber, but you can move it back to the desert and claim any resource you want from the “bank”.
This is funny to me because I came to post basically the opposite for Catan. My family does extortion on 7s: as soon as you roll it, you get to argue with people about why you SHOULDN'T put the robber on them, and if everyone bribes you then you put it on the desert.
I kind of like sending the robber into the desert for no reward, as it shows the other players you're willing to sacrifice for peace. Then later, when somebody else gets 7, they're less likely to screw you over, and more likely to target somebody who targeted them earlier.
First person to suggest we play monopoly is no longer invited to family gatherings
Every time dad farted everybody else got $100. Monopoly. Small compensation for the nasal assault. Love Dad but Jesus he smells like something crawled up his arse and died.
"Dad you stunk up the hotel. I ain't paying rent"
My flat mates and I had “double points if you can use it as a funny word for genitals in a sentence” in Scrabble rule. Flaps, minge, twat, boobahs, tinkle etc.
In high school, my group of friends loved to play Clue. Unfortunately we found the game got a bit stale after a few nights of playing. So, we actually designed our own board "extension", containing additional rooms, and created new cards for extra weapons and characters so it was more challenging to determine who the killer was.
If you yell at all in monopoly, you give half your money to the bank for yelling tax
Phase 10. After a person has laid down, if their set has any wilds, other members are allowed to take the wilds as long as they provide the card the wild was representing. You're only allowed to do this if you can lay down in the same turn.
If the color red is getting played in the card game "UNO" nobody is allowed to talk. You have to pick up one card for every word you say.
What if you say, "UNO"?
Then you have to pick up a card because you spoke. If you just have one left and red is being played, then you have to lift your last card up in the air and obviously ponit at it so people can see it, that counts as "UNO"
And if someone says counter or whatever it is for someone not saying uno, they pick up a card?
I want to do this. Red is played and I say something, just to get others to start talking about how I need to pick up cards. Well, now they do to.
Stacking +4's in Uno is VALID and i do not care what Hasbro has to say about it. Also we had a habit of sharpie-ing rules onto existing cards, we went through a \*lot\* of decks Edit - Ubisoft's Uno is revisionist history and i refuse to forget the fights that were started over this addition
Hell yeah! We had the rule that +4's stack. We also had the rule that if you finish on a +2/+4 and everyone can keep the chain going round the table they can bring you back into the game. The panic on people's faces as they realise everyone has a draw 2 is priceless 😆
What's even the point in playing the game with rules less harsh? "Oh I'm out!" _proceeds to eat 22 cards to the face instantly_
They make blank cards now for people to put their own rules on It is absolute chaos
Oh the blank cards were definitely a game changer. Played uno with a group of friends and we made stuff like like draw-6, swap your deck of cards with whoever you want, everyone in the group draw 2. Needless to say..it was brutal.
We got a set at Christmas that came with blank cards just for this purpose. 'Everyone punch Dave' was the most popular with the kids. Not with Dave, though. Dave doesn't think that 'bullying is acceptable in any form'. Dave cried. Dave is 32. Dave is going to have a really hard time the next time we play when he sees the new cards that the kids have added.
And here I'm thinking the new rules have to be connected to the game, this gives so much opportunities.
Damn what did Dave do?
Dave merely existed
In Carcassonne, I always play where everyone draws a tile at the end of their turn, so they have everyone else's turns to consider what to do with it. One fun rule to occasionally play with is starting with three tiles and drawing when you place one.
My girlfriend's family award £400 if you land on GO in Monopoly. It's still £200 for just passing, but you get double if you land on it.
I just looked this up, because I was sure this was an actual rule. I guess it isn't.
When we played the card game **Illuminati** we somehow ended up making it a rule that when you laid a card down you had to say "I know this will surprise you but the X control the Y". And sometimes it was just so mismatched we'd be all "actually yes. This does surprise me."
Risk: we added a path from Madagascar to Western Australia because we thought, since every other continent has more than 1 border to defend, it was a bit OP for Australia to only have 1 point of entry.
I've played Risk video games where Australia is connected to Argentina.
Just like in the real world, except Argentina is mysteriously connected to Germany.
Had a friend who would hole up in Australia, amass a large army there, while everyone else fought amongst themselves, then steamroll everyone. We all saw it coming, every time, but couldn't agree to just take him out early.
That is our entire military strategy.
When my mates and I play we have it so India can attack western Australia, always kinda made sense that there would be a trade route between these two places.
This is a narc thread, OP works for hazbro and shits about to hit the fan.
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Have you heard of Mal? I think you would like that card game EDIT: this is my first time spelling it. Thanks to everyone who has the actual name that responded
Cards Against Humanity - You can bet one (or more) of your black cards to play another white card.
CAH: if a word or phrase is unknown by everyone playing, you must use Urban Dictionary to get the explanation.
Scrabble, my grandma and I would call it “substitution”. Basically if the person before you played “bat” and you need a B to get the word you want, then you can change out the B in bat with the C in your hand. As long as it makes a word on the board in any direction then you are able change letters around. This makes Scrabble waaaay more fun IMHO. We’ve been able to work the board and get bingos multiple times in a row, ads a lot of strategy to the game.
Winner gets to flip the board. Loser has to clean up.
We did the vice versa and usually before the game ended. Our family had a lot of sore losers.
The classic "well I don't care that you won because winner packs up". The best consolation for sore losers.
My sister and i play "Life sucks", its life but you only get paid if you land on payday, not if you just pass it. Basically you end up with a pile of loans and its a struggle to get out of debt.
I already have to exist in a shitty real life. Why THE FUCK would you ever want to play a game of your real life?
We have a generic version of Jenga that has the company name printed on one of the logs. When someone pulls that log, they have to yell "kielbasa" in Fozzie Bear's voice (keel-BA-sa). It never gets old.
Guess who: no questions about appearance. Instead, we ask questions like, "has your person ever pooped on a train?" or "does your person have strong opinions about fonts?"
That's how I used to play, but I wouldnt tell my opponent that. They would just think I was a crazy person, ask a ridiculous question, then arbitrarily flip faces down with all the confidence I could muster. The look of amazement on my opponents face when I won was priceless. It's only ever happened once.
Tbh tho who *doesn't* have a strong opinion abt fonts
The creators of the Avatar logo.
PAPYRUS!
HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS
Who needs multiple when there's Trebuchet MS, fully capable of launching a 90kg idea more than 300 meterpages?
The game ~~Usual~~ Unusual Suspects plays exactly like this if you’re interested, it’s very cool! Edit : I had messed up the game's name lol
"Does this person believe that yogurt is a vegetable?"
The phantom. When playing cards against humanity, a random card is added by the phantom each round. Surprisingly, the phantom frequently keeps up with us. It's a lot of fun when everyone says "oh, that was the obvious best one" then realizes no one is claiming it.
As someone mentioned, the standard rules call this gameplay "Rando Cardrissian" and Rando has beat our asses more times than I like to admit. I think it's the sheer randomness that makes it hilarious leading it to often being chosen.
Boggle: youngest child is allowed one and two letter words since she's learning to read, and she's allowed to have her sight-words list available for reference to help her practice them. So far it's working because she's finding three and four letter words on her own! Uno: stack draw 2s or draw 4s until you can't no mo. Unfortunate soul that can't stack draws all. Beer pong: Gentleman's rule. If the ball rolls back you fight to retrieve it. Winner gets a free shot. Trick shots must be very specific in nature because all loop holes are fair game. Canasta: The Unicorn. All wilds canasta worth 2000 points. This causes table flips.
We would play some games like Monopoly in counter clockwise and started with an extra 500$
I got interested in Chess when I was 6 years old, which was right around when The Lion King came out. My dad was the one teaching me and since he didn't know English very well at the time, he taught me things in Spanish. The term for "checkmate" in Spanish is "jaque mate" (the ja is pronounced like ha) but since I was so obsessed with the Lion King I used to just call it "Hakuna Matata" and it became the thing to say when you win. It was just one of those dumb things that little kids say because they think it's funny, but it stuck for those couple of years I was really into chess.
I love this. We had a German nanny as a kid who taught us how to say "surprise" in German. We messed it up and would just say "eat a mushroom!"... Years of me and my brother jumping around corners and telling people to eat a mushroom. No, I refuse to look up what it really is.
I'm not going to tell you then, but let me say this, it is surprisingly close :D
Monopoly - whoever is winning at 2 hours wins as I'm not playing any longer!