Fake Board Games For Obsessive Fans (How I Met Your Mother Edition)

Obsession is the healthiest form of love.

I’m not sure who originally said that, but it was probably a very wise stalker.

That said, I’m not obsessed with board games.

Rather, I recognize they’re a highly enjoyable way to spend a night with friends that you already spend so much time with you have very few stories that need told and gossip that needs spread.

(Using the phrase gossip reminds me that I know someone who is in this month’s Hustler.)

(If you don’t find that interesting, well, that’s sad for you because it blows my mind.)

(Though I would have prefered she’d made it into Playboy, as I feel wrangling an invitation to the mansion would lead to a hilariously awkward story.)

(And I know how to spell Playboy, whereas I had to Google Hustler to make sure it isn’t Hussler.)

(Though I just realized why that’d be unlikely.)

(As a fabulously tease-y thing to add, it’s someone who has appeared on this blog.)

(I know, right?)

I played this game with Skye, Lindsey, and my mom. It’s a series of this or that debates and the only way to win is at the very beginning to predict which item is going to get the most votes at the end.

That means you have to look at all 48 random nouns, and, without knowing what questions will decide their match-ups, name the winner.

You can also write down one other player and what you think their choice for winner is.

Does that sound like an almost impossible task, reducing the game to complete luck?

It did to me.

Except both Skye and Lindsey chose me as their player and guessed I wrote down the Swedish Chef.

(Yes, they were right.)

(Because bork bork bork never gets old.)

(Seriously.)

I’d describe this game but it’s very, very complicated.

And by that, I mean I’m still not sure I understand how it’s played.

Only Lindsey spent the entire night being confused, going the wrong place and making bad card decisions and when we tallied up money at the end of the game she’d won.

By a lot.

On a separate note, I think Lindsey might be some sort of secret mastermind.

But of all the games I’ve recently played, the best exists because Allison loves her roommate more than me.

(This is not to say, of course, that I’m pining for my own personalized board game.)

(Not at all.)

(Okay, maybe a little.)

If you’ve ever seen a certain episode of How I Met Your Mother, you’re familiar with Marshgammon.

It’s a game one of the characters invents and its point is to be needlessly confusing.

It’s also a Frankenstein’s Monster of games, involving a Twister spinner, a Candyland board, a Taboo buzzer, a set of poker chips and countless other supplies I didn’t photograph and thus don’t remember.

As the TV show didn’t devote hours to gameplay, the card questions had to be invented by Allison.

And if I do say so myself, they’re hilarious/deeply zombie thought-probing.

Don’t you wish you had the opportunity/cool enough friends to play Marshgammon?

Well, I thought you’d feel that way.

(You know, since I just invented the feeling in the previous sentence.)

So I got Allison to send me a few of her very favorite autobiography and scruples questions.

Feel free to ask these of your friends and family and anyone standing behind you in line for car inspections.

‘Cause they wouldn’t be there if they didn’t want to bond.

During the apocalypse, your partner gets attacked by some zombies. If you go back, there is a 50/50 chance you will both survive or die. Do you go back?

Do you like big butts? Could you lie about it?

What would you do if you had one day no one would remember?

If you won the lottery, what would you be embarrassed to admit you spent money on?

Is or has at any point a bitch been one of your myriad problems?

You’re welcome,

Megan

Having recently lost my sanity, I decided to accomplish a series of “26 Goals” before my 27th birthday on 12.9.2012. One of said goals is to play 26 board games. The above games, Marshgammon, and the two other games I should learn the names of, count as the first three.

 

Fake Board Games For Obsessive Fans (How I Met Your Mother Edition)

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