In chess, a queen sacrifice is a move giving up a queen in return for tactical or positional compensation.
Real sacrifices are those where the compensation is not immediate, but more positional in nature. The queen is the most powerful piece. Because of this, positional sacrifices of the queen virtually always entail some partial material compensation.
I was never a chess player. How about Chutes and Ladders?
I think I always got square #87 that took me right back down to #24. Darn cookie jar. Some days just feel more like the chutes than the ladders.
What about Candy Land?
Both of these games are easy to play for a young child, no reading involved.
We played Candy Land so much that the cards were worn out. Worn to the point that you knew which card was which before you turned them over.
Grammy used to cheat, especially after the 3rd or 4th shuffle. She would be near the end of the board and draw the candy hearts card, sending her back to the beginning of the board. Instead of drawing one card, she would pick up two cards. Thus skipping the dreaded candy hearts - return to the beginning - card.
How about Uncle Wiggily?
Uncle Wiggily was also a draw a card and advance the board game. There was a LOT of reading involved. The directions on the cards were set in rhyme.
How about Cootie?
Another of my favorite games was called Missing Match-Ups. It was a Sesame Street based game similar to Memory.
I knew this one so well I had the game board memorized.
Hungry Hungry Hippos? Simple. Fun. LOUD.
(Did you know that Hungry Hungry Hippos is now a metaphor for our consumption-obsessed and obese culture? Really?!? *sigh* I suppose to be fair, nobody should win. Everybody should get the same amount of marbles.)
Hi Ho Cherry-O?
Gran, my grandmother (not to be confused with Grammy, my mom) always played with us but secretly hated this game. In our version, the trees were free standing and the cherries hooked on to the trees by their stems. Of course, as kids, we didn't have dexterity or patience to do this and inevitably knocked over our trees sending the cherries everywhere.
She always gave us a little medicine cup to hold our cherries.
Kerplunk was another favorite.
Pap liked Sorry.
As we got older, the Game of Life and Rummy-O were the go-to games.
It's no wonder we had game nights in college. We advanced to Scattergories and Buzzwords.
I know I forgot dozens of games. (What is/was your favorite?)
The most important part to remember...
The only way to win the game is to keep playing.
How about that! Social interaction and actual fun without an electronic device! I'm getting old!
ReplyDeleteI tried to post earlier and hope it doesn't go twice. Anyway, we played a lot of Skat and Euchre and Tricial Pursuit. Do you remember the toy Merlin? That was cool. One of my grandmothers had the Deluxe Scrabble, with the board that had all the little tile holders and the board could be rotated, like a Lazy Susan. Oooh. Upwords was a cool game. And Connect Four!
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