Clue, Parcheesi, and Harvest Moon

Forgot to mention – on the way back from DDR, we stopped by K*B Toys, where we bought* some games. Initially, it waqs just nanakikun buying some Nintendo DS game**, but then I pointed out Harvest Moon Advance*** was there, and then nanakikun noticed the 2-for-$10 sale on 'family games'....

So, this morning we played Clue!

Now, Clue is a great game. For those of you that have not tried it, the goal of the game is to solve a murder; find out who did it, in which room, and with what weapon. All the people, rooms, and weapons are represented by cards, and the three corresponding to the solution are secreted away in a folder in the middle of the board. The rest are dealt to the players. In the course of the game, the players try to figure out who holds which cards so as to solve the crime.

The best part, of course, is when the players start going into even deeper speculations, such as noting whenever someone lacks specific cards, or even when they only might have that card.

Oh, and ^z won, and it made him very happy.


* Meaning nanakikun bought. I'll pay him back for my share later, thank you.

** Polarium, as you may have inferred from his recent posting patterns.

*** "Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town", but that's not important.

**** Yes, that is my real Social Security Number. However, this is not a real footnote.