Game Nights

I love to play any type of game, that is just the way my brain works, I think I may have missed my calling as being FAO Schwartz, except I hate the giant piano in the movie "Big" you think it is cool until you try to play it and you sound like every other person who isn't musically inclined or just has short legs.



I love situational games like baseball, I love thinking about what should be done because rarely is a situation the same.  The challenge that being in a new situation after every move is exciting to me.  My love of strategic games started innocently when my Youth Pastor introduced me to Risk.  3 hours later I was wiped off the face of the earth and hooked.  That following summer my dad was worried about me and my friends because we were staying up too late playing Risk.  In hindsight, I don't think he had too much to worry about, I actually just think my friends Jordan, Caleb, Brandon and Schroeder were all incredibly loud even after their people groups had died off.  At one point we recorded an entire game of risk from beginning to end, it may be the single most boring thing that has ever been recorded.

But games are incredible and I have found more and more that there is a type of game that I put higher on a pedestal than any other, they are games of strategy.  Now one would instinctively think that my favorite game has to be Stratego because it's very name is arrived from the word strategy, however, that person would be wrong, Stratego requires as much strategy as Candy Land in comparison to the my favorite game of all time, THE SETTLERS OF CATAN (That is my booming movie preview announcer voice).

You may think that sounds lame, or what is a Catan?  But to you I say stop pondering such silly things and start pondering where you are going to find a Catan board and who you are going to play with.

Games bring a sense challenge, you get the opportunity to be a commander in charge of huge armies or a developer in charge of developing cities.  You get to go head to head with other people to see where you stack up or in the case of Quelf you just get to have fun and don't worry about who wins.

Christmas season and New Years is the time for staying up late and playing board games with friends, whether it be old school like Trivial Pursuit or Pictionary or too new and quirky like Quelf, open the closet, grab a board game and some friends and enjoy a game without the distraction of TV hindering you.

Whats your favorite board game?  Leave a comment and let me know.