Pleasing The Little Ones

We were celebrating Liz's birthday early and had a bunch of people over at the parent's house. It took a while for things to get underway. Ida was getting bored and was dying to do something. She wanted us to play...

Apples to Apples 4-10 players
I own a different version of this. Technically I own 2 different versions, but only one has "Apples" in the name. The first time I played this was with Chuck and Shelley. It was a nice game to play with a small group. I eventually got a copy to leave at the Clubhouse since people were playing it a lot. The groups got bigger, meaning the games got longer. I don't play this much anymore since there are better implementations of the mechanic.

To play, everyone is given 7 cards with different nouns (or verbs) on them. One player, the judge, flips over a green card with an adjective. All the other players secretly turn in a card to match up with that adjective. The judge decides which noun best matches the adjective. The person who put in that noun gets a point. Once a predetermined number of points is reached, that player wins.
We were playing with 10 players. Most of use had learned that this could mean a really long game so we set the bar to win very low: 3 cards. By the 9th judge, I had won the game.

This isn't a bad game. I still kind of like it. As long as it's short, it's pretty enjoyable. They game really doesn't function so well as a game as it does a way to stimulate conversation. The real problem that most people note is that you tend to be looking at a lot of the same crappy cards for most of the game. There aren't to many adjectives to use "Discovering America" on. After about 10 rounds, you begin to loath your cards more that you enjoy being with other people. That is why it is key to end the game just before that point.

We took a short break then played a trivia game I had put together. This does not get added to the list since this is unique to me and I'm not playing; I'm hosting.

Following the trivia, we jumped into one more game: Formula D. We had a 6-player game going. We initially planed for 2 laps, but halfway through the first lap we knew to just to do one. Raeann ended with the win and went out in a blaze of glory by driving into a wall. Good fun.

Tally: 84/164  Bonus: 23/50