What games / puzzles, riddles, etc. do y'all like?

[Linna Heartbooger]

(...outside of that one subforum.)

I like playing bananagrams and scrabble.
I've just started playing chess and checkers with my kid.
(I am, I think, coming out of a many-years' non-competitive streak.)

[Harbinger]

Riddles/puzzles: I like those ones where you have to ask yes and no questions to figure out the solution. I also like the daily Jumble in the newspaper. It is rare, and I mean rare, that I don't solve them all in less than one minute.

Games: If it requires more strategy, coordination, or skill than Candy Land, I probably like it. Games are awesome for bringing the family together and having fun. I especially like playing card games such as Spades, Hearts, and Rook with my wife and our two teens. It's quality time and face to face interaction. Wow! Can you believe I just lauded FTF interaction!

[michaelm]

Not many really. Every once in a while I'll try a newspaper crossword, and I play Sudoku and Mahjong on my phone sometimes.

[MsMary]

I haven't played board and card games in a while, but we used to enjoy Scrabble, Monopoly, Uno, and more.

Online, I used to be addicted to Tetris, haven't played that in a while, as well as a game called Javanoid. There was also a bubble-popping game that was fairly addictive.

I like Solitaire in any form, whether with physical cards or electronic.

My current most played games are Snood (I have an old version, don't much like the current version) and Luxor Amun Rising, which I play frequently on my iPad (originally played on the computer, but the version I had doesn't work on my current computer).

[Linna Heartbooger]

Riddles/puzzles: I like those ones where you have to ask yes and no questions to figure out the solution.

Games are awesome for bringing the family together and having fun. I especially like playing card games such as Spades, Hearts, and Rook with my wife and our two teens. It's quality time and face to face interaction. Wow! Can you believe I just lauded FTF interaction!

Michaelm I've never gotten around to ever playing Mahjong

MsM, ooh, I had a friend who loved playing snood.

[MsMary]

Snood can be rather addicting.

[aliantha]

I've never tried Snood. Hmmm....

Board games went out the window for us when Batty decided she didn't like them anymore. I play solitaire and a mahjonng game on my phone, and Mahjonng Secret Garden on Facebook. Oh, and Sudoku in the paper. That's pretty much it, these days.

Back when my mom was still alive, but was losing her memory, the girls and I tried to play B.S. with her. She had trouble following what was going on, and she'd also lost the ability to bluff. Her turn always ended up with her picking up the whole discard pile. It was both sad and hilarious....

[Linna Heartbooger]

Harbinger- I meant to ask... the ones where you have to ask yes or no questions to find the solution.. is that like where in the end you have like a list of five people and your trying to figure out who has the blue hat versus who has red sunglasses, and like several other categories too?

Back when my mom was still alive, but was losing her memory, the girls and I tried to play B.S. with her. She had trouble following what was going on, and she'd also lost the ability to bluff. Her turn always ended up with her picking up the whole discard pile. It was both sad and hilarious....

Aww.

[Harbinger]

Ones like this:

A man is lying face down in the middle of a desert and he is dead. He had on his back a pack that is full of all the provisions needed for survival in the desert. How did he die?

A man walks into a bar and asks for a glass of water. The bartender then pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man then says, "Thank you," and leaves. How come?

A man, going about his daily occupation, brushed against a rock and tore his sleeve. A few minutes later he was dead. How come?

The asker knows the answer and answers yes or no to questions until the guessers figure it out or give up.

[Vraith]

Harbinger- I meant to ask... the ones where you have to ask yes or no questions to find the solution.. is that like where in the end you have like a list of five people and your trying to figure out who has the blue hat versus who has red sunglasses, and like several other categories too?

I thought he was talking about the kind where the game-runner says:

A cane and clock are on the beach.
A bell rings.
A man drowns.
A bell rings.
What happened?
Then people ask yes or no questions trying to figure it out.
the answer is:

Spoiler

The man was blind, he had a timer with a chime to tell him when to turn around, and which direction the shore is. While he's swimming, a ship passes by further out, and rings a bell. The man swims towards it and drowns. His timer on the shore rings.

Edited to add---heh, he answered while I was typing. I was too slow, dammit.

[Linna Heartbooger]

Ah, okay.

Thanks for the examples, guys.

The one with the guy who tore his sleeve is intriguing... though I think I probably heard it at some point.

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Fell out of a helicopter/plane.

Hiccups.

Can't figure out the last one...Hazmat suit?

--A

[Harbinger]

Damn good answer. I'll give you that. I heard it as a deep sea diver.

[Vraith]

Damn good answer. I'll give you that. I heard it as a deep sea diver.

Heh...I heard it as "Asteroid Miner"...but I was hanging with peeps who have
every pun and joke Asimov ever made memorized.

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I'd heard the one about hiccups somewhere before, so I knew how they worked, which let me figure out the others. Could have gone astronaut for the last I suppose, (keeping them realistic).

--A