You know how you be get chatting with a friend, and suddenly you both just get silly? That's what happened with Sue Clark and me, the other day. Not face to face, over a cold one after work -- because Sue lives in Maine, where she reigns over Lighthouse News -- but online, over at Twitter.com. The upshot was that Sue came up with a new way to "get rich quick"...
If you’re at all into the game of Bunco, here’s a little something:
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Monopoly RulesI remember playing Monopoly with my dad.
He taught me many things about wheeling and dealing.
Whenever he purchased Boardwalk, he would ceremoniously place the card into his shirt pocket, symbolically telling me that I would NEVER get it. Mostly, I remember that he would nearly always win.
Yet, my fondest memories are of his creation of a game called Card Monopoly.
He made it with a deck of cards and two record album covers slit open and taped together. The rules were simple, requiring only a second deck of cards, two dice and a couple of tokens. We played quite a few games of Card Monopoly.
I remember thinking that my dad was a genius to be able to invent a game.
Dad went on to create many more games, including a computer word game! He instilled in me a love for making games. He also tempered my competitive nature.
Now, as a father, it’s my turn.
With five children, the fun is amplified. We have made up games as one group. We have made games for each other as Christmas presents. We have done solo efforts and used each other as play testers…
So, how did all this come about?
Come take a trip back in time, when the children were young and impressionable…
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