If you had to describe your life as a board game, which game would you be (and why)?

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Mine would be Cluedo, as just lately I seem to have the knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time - Miss Scarlet caught in the Conservatory with the candelabra, but it wasn't me. Honest.

And yours would be ...............??

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Trivial Pursuit - for very often it seems my life is a trivial pursuit. And cuz I know lots of extremely useless crap.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry!

(the game, that is)

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Downfall

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

or possibly Buckaroo .I know neither of these are strictly boardgames but I apply the sole criterion of coming packaged in a box with MB written on the side

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

also, Hungry Hippos

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Curses, I go off to get this picture:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IWD0.01.DTLS.MZZZZZZZ.gif

and Stence and Horace beat me to the punch. Sorry!

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a bit like...

http://www.lifestylebeat.com/images/articles/042202d7.jpg

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

One of those supercomplex Avalon Hill style board games where you figure everything out and then the next turn you're sorta scratching your head again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Life, cos I'm always like, wtf, who are these people in my car? Get the fuck OUT.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

On second thoughts, this one might work for me, the way I'm feeling today..

http://www.timewarptoys.com/mousetrap.jpg

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, Tim, I just now realized that Horace already mentioned it. Need to drink less coffee.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Parcheesi, cuz i am cheesi

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nessie Hunt, because I'm paranormal and rather obscure. And in Scotland.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.fairmarket.co.uk/images/thumbs/images_fairmarket_co_uk/images/site669/members/1197955-MBGAMESSTAYALIVE.jpg

Because I always feel like a hole's going to open up beneath me at any moment.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hasbropreschool.com/common/images/products/4555_imageMain400.jpg

CHUTES AND LADDERS is the game of rewards and consequences. As kids travel along the game path, they encounter situations that reward them for good deeds by letting them climb the ladders or punish them for misbehaving by sending them down chutes

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

CHUTES AND LADDERS
-- luna

I'm totally with you on this one, luna. I think it's important to recognize that it's often fun to take a slide down a chute even if it means you're gonna have to climb a ladder with a fucked up foot later.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Chutes? What happened to the poor snakes!?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Them gots amurricanized.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

They were snakes when I was a child. Probably some sort of animal rights thing.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The modified Game of Life that my friends and I made up in high school. It featured careers like game show host and lady of the evening. It also had a square where you got to pay $5,000 to put your kid into rehab, and a "Nuclear War: Game Over" square.

No wonder the popular kids wanted to beat us up.

― Jodi (Celerina), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Snakes are horrible and they have beady little eyes and awful flickery tongues and they're just so... slithery. They get no rights!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of my favorite things could be describe as slithery. ;-)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Well ok, sure, mine too - BUT NOT SNAKES!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

insert 'perhaps except of the trouser variety' and then run away for having even said that

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. Mine would be Scruples, and I would lose every time.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Bonkers! (you don't even get to roll the dice, you are given cards that tell you how to move)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/bggimages/pic995148167jpg.jpg

Because I am constantly being chased by nazis.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

well, since so many others copied me by taking Sorry!, I'll switch to this one:
http://www.dollsntoys.com/images/5302.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I've written thousands of words answering this question, but I'm gonna go with Happy Days, cause everybody's life should at least vaguely resemble desperate merchandising.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't find a picture of the Sweet Valley High game, but that's the theme game for the NYC ILXor Chicks.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Monopoly, because it is fucking shit.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kidsdomain.com/review/screens/operation.gif

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, I have that game at my parents. Maybe I should bring it back to place next time I visit.

http://www.kconline.com/kurtkelsey/toys/img/barbie_qop.jpg

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lvcm.com/docprego/Battletech.JPG

biography in a box, and it only tokk a pair of d6 to play

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

also one day my reflexes will catch up with my typos

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Headache. Cos I probably cause so many.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/HLD/CBL/Teacher/Webcode/020826.Candyland_Game.jpg
(because i am depressed)

― Honda (Honda), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Scrabble

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(with half the letters missing)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'LL GIVE YOU TROUBLE
POP-O-MATIC REPRESENT

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

This game I picked up at Village des Valeurs called "Flying Hats."

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Pokémon monopoly or a vintage edition of Scrabble with "well loved" tiles. GOD I LOVE SCRABBLE.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

'Flying Hats' sounds a brilliant game (though perhaps a tad dangerous). How do you play it?

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cheapass.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/525.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Backgammon, because I play it and sometimes win even though I don't fully understand the strategies at work.

Or, Pass the Pigs.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I forgot the 'and why' part.

Because I'm a control freak and always think I can do something better than the other fellow, so GIVE ME THE BRAIN. However, I sometimes drop the brain in the deep fryer.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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