Let The Games Begin!

I love games. Board games, card games, online games, video games, I love them all. In the summertime, especially, I love to sit on the back porch and play games. We have a good sized collection of them, but I like to add to it whenever I can. Last year at the flea market, I spotted a Monopoly game in the 50 cent box of one of the vendors. When I paid for it, he told me to take the other game he had, too, at no charge. It turned out to be Clue. I was prepared for some missing pieces, but both games were complete. Not at bad deal for 50 cents!

Some of my favorite games are Scrabble and Battleship. I'm partial to Trivial Pursuit, too, although we can never get through a game without one of us making reference to the episode of Wings where Lowell thinks the answer to every question is Ann Margret. Have you ever seen it?

We used to invite friends over to play cards. We would usually play Texas Hold Em, but once in a while we would play Euchre. I am seriously the world's worst Euchre player. I seem to remember a friend of ours begging to have any partner other than me!

It's early in the season, but soon we will be putting up our 12 foot movie screen in the backyard and playing video games on it. You wouldn't believe how hard Pacman becomes when you play it in that format. The Wii is a riot, too. Wii Sports and the carnival games were our favorites last year.

Yesterday, my husband and I played a few games of chess before dinner. Mr. Willoughby has been playing since he was a teenager, but I only learned to play a year or two ago. If we haven't played in a while, I need him to explain the rules of the game to me all over again. Needless to say, I always lose. Chess is a game of honor so I don't expect Mr. W. to go easy on me or let me win and he doesn't. It's frustrating, though, that I can never catch him off guard or out strategize him. When he was celebrating one of his victories last night, I told him that an experienced player like he is winning against a novice like I am is similar to an adult beating up a kindergartner. Okay, maybe it's not quite that bad, but I can't let him get too cocky.

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