Coffee/Scrabble

I'm having this cup of espresso while waiting to head over to Mike and Jenna's place for some Scrabble and Bananagrams.

It's a cold and rainy Tuesday night, and I don't have a ton of stuff to talk about, but I will post an update with results later on.

UPDATE:
Victory! My second play of the game was zaps/shining for a bingo and something like 82 points. I made the lead hold up, as the board never really got opened up. Jenna went out first, but I only had 6 points on me leftover tiles. Whew.

We played a few rounds of Bananagrams, with everybody going out once (I think).

Cutthroat Competition

I'm at a bit of a loss for what to write today, but in honor (solidarity? honor isn't quite right) of the Vikings heartbreaking loss last weekend and the Badger's deflating last-second loss to Purdue last night, I will share a story of a loss I suffered a month or so ago.

For a game night at my apartment, Greg and I pulled out some old classics - Candyland and Chutes and Ladders.


My character was the little dork in jeans and a green shirt. He got stuck on space 99, as you can see here:


Unfortunately, Greg got a lucky roll to win the game,


although Lucy was not impressed.


Finally (and here is where the heartbreak comes in play), my next two rolls after the game was finished were, of course, ones.

BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA!

I heard some very interesting news this week - very exciting news indeed. Remember the old (and brilliant) game NBA Jam? I have definitely gone into the wee hours of the night with Joe and Chris, futilely attempting to beat every NBA team. Once, Christ lost a key matchup because the clock ran out as his character was 20' in the air catapulting through his dunk animation. Such a disappointing loss...

Well, go and buy a Wii, because soon you'll be able to sink shots from dowwwwwwntowwwwwwwn!

Curious about potential matchups? Nymag.com runs down modern-day dynamic duos, but I'm more excited to see my mii v. Jody's as she puts up a BRICK!

Distractions

It seems that my brain works best when there are several different tasks vying for my attention - in fact, while writing this post I am also watching Bull Durham (the overdubbed lines are fairly ridiculous), reading about the apocalypse, frustrating Calli with the sluggish pace of my writing, and playing one of the assorted games and puzzles that are oh-so-addicting. On a regular day, here are the ways I kill time:

Kenken
Hashi
Kakuro
Battleships
Pic-a-Pix
Crossword
Crickler
PlayFour
Sets

Also, I have completed/won more than anybody's fair share of Minesweeper, Freecell, and Solitaire. Good times.

Paper Scissors Rock

Most, if not all, of you are aware of the game in which two players choose either paper, scissors, or a rock in the hopes of defeating the other player. This game (or its variants) is popular across the globe, according to Wikipedia.
One thing that Wikipedia gets wrong, however, is the game's preferred name. According to Thomas B. Marlow (in addition to being a world-renowned expert on holiday rules, he is unparalleled in his knowledge of games' proper playing and naming), Paper Scissors Rock is the correct name of the game. True, most people will know what you're talking about if you put the words in the wrong order, but...it's just like stairs in groups of seven. At the risk of sounding grandiose, calling the game Rock Paper Scissors is an affront to nature - just as the Designated Hitter and night games mar the inherent beauty of a baseball game.