In this thread, we talk about games that we ALWAYS win when we play with our friends.I often play Catan with my friends, but the game is the exact same every time. Basically, my two friends ALWAYS try to get Longest Road early on and then they spend the rest of the game fighting over Longest Road, blowing lots of resources in the process. Meanwhile, I usually use what little space is left to get cities and Development Cards until I win.
Poetry For Neanderthals. Basically charades where each team has to use only single syllable words to help their teammate figure out their word. I would just talk pretty rapid-fire in monosyllables without error (if you said a two-plus syllable word on accident you get bonked) to the point I basically got relegated to spectator, and then the group stopped playing itI do feel bad, but they can always play it without me, and man did it feel good. It's still a fun in-joke from time to rare time
Peanuts.Y'know, that childhood game where you lock fingers with another guy and try to bend them back until he yells "Peanuts!" as he tries to do the same to you.Dunno why, but it seems like grip strength correlates less with overall bodymass for many people; I'm a slight guy, but I've beat a man easily twice my weight at peanuts.Is it because I'm a chronic masturbator?
>Games That You Always WinLiterally Every DND...
>>98193836Either I win or bad rolls cuck me out of a win one or two points away
>>98194110I think I could give you a run for your... cash, in that game. I have played it just once, and my group did not just win by a ton, but the rest of the teams clapped when I was done with my turn. No joke. I would need just two or three words, and my team could guess wild and strange words in no time at all. At some point, the rest of the game stopped and it was just a stage show of how weird the paths of thought I would take to get my team to reach a word as quick as we could. It was a lot of fun.
>>98194677A shame, since I have yet to meet my match in this game, but by now the rust will have built up on my end. Nice post, pal
>>98194677I see what you did there, my man of no name. Keep up the good work.
>>98193836Alias, the word-explaining game where you can't say the actual word but have to dance around it and make your team guess it. Some words do admittedly get really bloody hard because my language is fond of compound words, but I still far and away dominate both explaining and guessing
>>98195132>>98194677both of you are embarrassing lol
>>98194473If you're getting good grip strength from that, you're gripping too hard and it will fuck you up sexually later on.
>>98194473We called it Mercy.I won a lot of bets with that game as a kid.Years later, someone brought it up in the office, and I said I used to be unbeatable. I then had to go through a gauntlet of matches, starting with my friend who was barely a hundred pounds that I won against instantly, all the way up to a 250lb+ body builder who came in from a different floor of the office just to challenge me.Grip strength, leverage, technique, I had to use everything, and the worst people to go up against weren't necessarily the strongest, just the ones who wouldn't give up even though they had absolutely no chance of winning. They would just treat the game as a test of pain endurance while I had to figure out how to get them to submit without dealing any permanent damage like breaking their wrists.One technique I was pretty good at was just outright crushing the other guy's hand, finding the pain points and applying pressure so that there would be really awful bone-on-bone compression. That ended up being the most problematic though, because the guys who wouldn't just submit and tried to endure it for as long as they could ended up with bruised hands that remained painful for days afterwards.Even a few girls joined in, and those were actually the most challenging, because I had to let them last long enough so that they wouldn't feel bad, not actually hurt them, and still get them to submit. I eventually ended up with a fairly gentle method that had me raising their arms up wrist-side up, slowly but unyieldingly, so they could predict for themselves how much pain they would be in if I actually kept raising their arms to their maximum limit. I remained unbeatable, but messed up my own hands quite a bit, though nothing compared to the guys who wanted to use me as their personal torturer for five minutes because their egos were much stronger than they were.
>>98193836I have the opposite issue, I won too much at too many party boardgames (specially the ones that require slyness/intrigue). Now i can never win, because everyone nearly always subconsciously groups up against me. It is nearly impossible for me to make an alliance, even if we REALLY need it.
>>98196863 (me)They treat having an alliance with me or siding with me like making a deal with the devil, even when both of us are the weakest in the game.
>>98196863>>98196868I have a friend who plays a lot of board games, and everyone tends to gang up on him. It's not because he's particularly skilled, but because the way that he would win, when he would win, would put a bad taste in everyone's mouth.You really can only betray people so many times or otherwise make it clear you're going to act ruthlessly before people grow wise to it.
>>98196905I am the one introducing the new games usually, and i always tell them about how alliances and betrayal works, the different tricks they can use (and to watchout for), and the optimal way to play to win, since i enjoy hard fought games. They should know i wont be betraying them when it is suboptimal.
>>98197319>the optimal way to play to winWeird, considering you now never win.
>>98193836I'm the opposite in that there are rarely any games I win. Ever. I usually either lose like in card games or I end up in second place. And I won't lie, it stings a bit, but I just kind of have to live with being stupid and unlucky.
>>98197564Ouch! fair.
>>98196585Re-read the post he was replying to, and/or find medical coverage to remove the foreign object buried in your small intestine, fella
Binding of issac the card game. Im not even the biggest fan of it but i just play logically and it works out about 80% of the time. Just pass your turn until you get the soul of gluttony then try to get soul of greed. Its pretty boring drawing and immediately passing desu. Not even playing the game is the best way to win. We switched to Munchkin and it seems like a much smoother game.
