Stalwarts like Ticket to Ride and Splendor come to the table often, alongside Santorini and Azul. “Even without a regularly scheduled game night, tabletop games and Dungeons & Dragons have become part of the culture in our house. What kinds of games will you find at the Ryder game table? Better to ask what games you WON’T find. I can’t get enough of them - it’s kind of a problem - and my family, sometimes with great aplomb and sometimes with coercion, comes along on the journey.” “Board games, card games and hobby games are big in my family,” says Dan Ryder, of North Jay. Super fun and entertaining for everyone.”ĭUNGEONS & DRAGONS, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT “Recently my daughter got the Headbanz game and actually kicked our whole family’s butts at it. “My family and I have always loved game night and found it a classic way to bond and spend a few hours without many screens present, especially as we’ve gotten older,” Bicknell says. It’s a recent hit at Mariah Bicknell’s Lewiston household. In this one, a player sticks a card in their provided headband and then has to figure out what it says by asking yes or no questions of the other players. She also has been known to play Scrabble during lunch time at her workplace, bring several Scrabble boards along on summer outings, organize Scrabble games on Taco Nite at a local restaurant, and set up Scrabble at family reunions and holiday festivities.Įver heard of the game Headbanz? Me neither. These days Barschdorf loves teaching the strategy of Scrabble to her three grandchildren and has been known to throw a game when the situation calls for it. It is at once companionship, stress relief and occasionally, high humor. They’ll have discussions about the big news of any given day while their three dogs, Eddie, Anna and Billy, crowd in around the table.įor these sisters of the cards, game night is a firmly affixed part of their lives.

“ĭuring card night, the sisters will break for supper either one of them has cooked something or they’ll order out.

If we see someone has a better hand, we point it out. We never raise and we don’t play cut-throat. Oh, and we use just one deck to play and the next person’s turn to deal is already shuffling the other deck so we don’t waste time starting the next game - Jane’s complaint that we take too long shuffling them. Some of the games we play are: Maverick, Low or High in the Hole, Peek-A-Boo, Last Card Wild, Follow the Dirty Queen (spade), Deuces and One-Eyed Jacks, Draw, Dumb Donna (she earned this game) and include the ‘Bibbit’ - which is a joker and can be wild - among many others. They take their games seriously and they aren’t playing Go Fish out there.

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