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If any of you guys have any experience this mightn't be a bad idea.... make the screen for the whole deck and get some sheets of card.. It would cut the cost and it would be an excuse to get together and drink.

I do some screen printing, and I have to say this wouldn't work. We would have to be able to plactisize the cards after, and I'm not talking about laminating.

Some things are worth doing right if they are worth doing at all.

How about fixed monopoly?

Mind you, when I was a kid and played with my family, the games were usually fixed.

snakes and ladders, the fixed gear addition, FTW

A boardgame revolving around fixed gear riding would be cool.

I like a good game of monopoly.

I think I probably played too much of that as a kid. Likewise with all the other 'standard' boardgames.

Germany has a huge boardgame boom. It all started in the early 80s when the gaming industry created a 'Game of the Year' award. For marketing purposes, GOTYs became the few games that even people who didn't play many games would buy and shedloads of new games are released every year, competing for the GOTY title. If you ever see a game that has something like this on it, it's probably a more than decent game:

Interestingly, one of the first really successful GOTYs was Dampfross:

Ironically, this was actually invented, under the name 'Railway Rivals', by David Watts, a British game designer, who couldn't find anyone to publish it over here. He took it to Schmidt Spiele in Germany, and the rest is history. It became very successful and a cursory Google just now brought up quite a lot of evidence of continued popularity.

In the mid-90s, a game called "Die Siedler von Catan" was published which took the commercial potential of boardgames to a whole other level. It was wildly successful.

I like playing some of those more advanced games rather than Monopoly, although that is still a more than serviceable game. Having said that, one of my all-time favourites is Boggle, not strictly a boardgame, which is very simple.

Mary has terrified me out of boggle, ice skating, and live gigs.

Boogle and Scrable are my dsylexic nightmare. Playing them gives me a headache.

Where can I get a pack of these cards?

Cool. Could also raise awareness of Ghost Bikes.

The company Bicycle do some really nice cards we could 'pay homage to'...

http://subparspokane.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/bicycle-guardians/

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these cards look amazing! gonna have to hunt the bay.

Mary has terrified me out of boggle, ice skating, and live gigs.

Why out of Boggle?

Boogle and Scrable are my dsylexic nightmare. Playing them gives me a headache.

Yes, not the right kind of game for you, then. I'm hyperlexic, so I prefer word games and visual games over all others. There are games for everybody. You'd probably be good at games where more strategy is required?

Could have OOL as the Joker?

Why out of Boggle?

Mary's so enthusiastic about board games, especially Boggle, that it's completely terrifying. I belive she has been refered to as a casual natzi based on her asertion that everyone should be having FUN and her adhesiveness to the rules

Mary's so enthusiastic about board games, especially Boggle, that it's completely terrifying. I belive she has been refered to as a casual natzi based on her asertion that everyone should be having FUN and her adhesiveness to the rules

Ah, I see. Nothing wrong with good house rules. I don't think I've ever played Boggle exactly according to the rules it came with, although not far different from it. I've only ever played it in German, as well.

But enthusiasm about boardgames is certainly a plus in my view! I have some good games (Talisman, Carcassonne, erm, Boggle, Scotland Yard, and, of course, Scrabble). I'd be well up for having a Games Sunday at the Pembury or somewhere like that. Anyone keen?

I got caught cheating in a family game of Monopoly at Xmas. Though I'd warned them not to let me be the banker. My 'pass go, collect £200' entitlement was withdrawn as punishment.

Could have OOL as the Joker?

It certainly wouldn't be you...

But who would be the Queen of Hearts?

I'll pay. When are the posters coming grauate-boy?

+1

I love the cards idea, it will add to my collection of cards which so far includes, belle and sebastian cards, the iraqi leaders (as given to america soldiers going to iraq so they could recognise people the army wanted to capture... although a few of them are siloettes?!)... bbc sitcom playing cards... Maybe VB can find out where the B&S one's were made, because they were only a £5 or so?

As for games... I'm another scrabble hater, because of dyslexia... but I play most anything without letters... backgammon, monopoly, cribbage, poker, grand theft auto, axis & allies, mah jong, risk, chess, dominoes, D&D... Or at least I did when I was a kid nd had infinate amounts of time...

as long as I can be queen of diamonds, you can be queen of hearts, Will.