Grace (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} celestialblendr) wrote,@ 2009-03-26 18:25:00 |
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For all of you having a tough day out there...
Somewhere, there are newborn leopard cubs.
http://www.zooborns.com/
Good goulash, are they cute!
Spent most of my afternoon at school playing a rambunctious game of Apples to Apples with a group of boys in grades 4-8, followed by a few quick rounds of Balderdash. Yes, we were supposed to be playing strategy games like Settlers of Catan, but my co-teacher who was supposed to get people going on Puerto Rico (which I've never played) was out sick, as was her son, who was supposed to be the top secret backup plan. I couldn't reasonably shoehorn the whole group into just Settlers and Carcassonne, so we went to plan B and played a big game together.
It's difficult to stay professional playing these games. For example, I couldn't play "Zucchini" on "Manly" in Apples to Apples. I was also struck at how much the age spread showed up while playing Balderdash. The first round, I had them reappropriating the acronym AICP. The fourth graders, uniformly, came up with answers involving cat poop. When you got to the eighth graders, they had gotten to "Australian Industrial Chair Products" and "Anal Inspector Car Patrol." The younger ones also couldn't get past voting for their own.
So, I put to you the same question we introduced ourselves with today:
What is your favorite trump card in Apples to Apples? What is the card that, if played, cannot fail?
Somewhere, there are newborn leopard cubs.
http://www.zooborns.com/
Good goulash, are they cute!
Spent most of my afternoon at school playing a rambunctious game of Apples to Apples with a group of boys in grades 4-8, followed by a few quick rounds of Balderdash. Yes, we were supposed to be playing strategy games like Settlers of Catan, but my co-teacher who was supposed to get people going on Puerto Rico (which I've never played) was out sick, as was her son, who was supposed to be the top secret backup plan. I couldn't reasonably shoehorn the whole group into just Settlers and Carcassonne, so we went to plan B and played a big game together.
It's difficult to stay professional playing these games. For example, I couldn't play "Zucchini" on "Manly" in Apples to Apples. I was also struck at how much the age spread showed up while playing Balderdash. The first round, I had them reappropriating the acronym AICP. The fourth graders, uniformly, came up with answers involving cat poop. When you got to the eighth graders, they had gotten to "Australian Industrial Chair Products" and "Anal Inspector Car Patrol." The younger ones also couldn't get past voting for their own.
So, I put to you the same question we introduced ourselves with today:
What is your favorite trump card in Apples to Apples? What is the card that, if played, cannot fail?
