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The game night crowd agrees to a man…
Posted: August 5, 2010 by datechguy in gamingTags: bikini photos, bikini scandal, game night
Monopoly & Groo the Crash and Burn version
Posted: July 11, 2010 by datechguy in fun, gaming, odditiesTags: game night, groo, monopoly
Does Monopoly look become boring after a while? Want to spice it up. Our gaming group has figured out a way. Combine it with GROO the Cardgame!
What you need to play;
A Standard Monopoly set.
One Groo movement dice from the Groo Game
A Groohead dice from the Groo game
Either a second Groohead dice OR a Groo miniature.
Special Groo Rules:
Groo is the last player who moves. Roll the regular dice, the Groo Dice and the Groohead dice.
Move Groo the number of squares indicated on the dice adjusted by the Groo Movement dice. (Left or right) as shown. Then examine the Groohead dice.
If the result is anything other than Groohead continue to the next player.
If a Groohead comes up Groo being Groo causes destruction as Follows:
If the property contains a Hotel It is reduced to 4 houses
If the property contains houses one house is removed.
If the property contains no houses it MUST be mortgaged. The owner of the property gets no compensation for this.
If the property is mortgaged then it is returned to the bank
If the property is unowned then it is Mortgaged WITHIN the bank. A player who lands on it may purchase it but it must be purchased as a mortgaged property and unmortgaged per regular rules
If groo lands on a unowned mortgaged property that property is permanently removed from the game the set may not be acquired or built upon.
Groo has the following effects non-property squares:
Nobody may collect money from passing GO if Groo is on GO
If Groo lands on Free Parking any money is the middle goes back to the bank.
If Groo lands on chance and/or community chest draw the card shown. If he is moved to a location treat said movement as if he landed there.
If Groo is already on a property owned by a player that contains houses and the player draws the “pay for house or hotel card” ALL houses on that property are removed (Groo attempts to help repair said property with predictable results)
Groo Rampage
If Groo lands on chance or community Chest and draws Pay for each house or Hotel all properties on the board lose one house.
If Groo lands on Just visiting all players in Jail immediately roll one dice and move away from the jail. All players ignore any “Go to Jail” result if Groo is visiting.
Sharing a space with Groo.
If Groo lands on a property that you are on there is no additional effect all damage is to the property.
If you are on a “paying” space (such as Luxury Tax) and Groo lands on it you must pay the price of the property a second time.
If you land on Groo you must pay him to go away. The cost to make him go away is equal to price of the property that you are on. A “Get out of Jail Free” card may be used.
If you land on Groo when he is not on a paying property do not roll the dice for Groo he will move with you with the following effects:
You may not collect any money from any properties you own instead you must pay to the bank any amount you would have collected due to Groo Damage.
If a fray takes place while Groo is traveling with you, lose a turn and all your cash on hand.
These effects continue until Groo is paid off and moves away.
A Fray:
If an attempt to send Groo to Jail takes place due to either a card draw, doubles or the landing on the Go to Jail space a Fray takes place with the following effects:
Any and all buildings on the property Groo is on are destroyed.
If there are no buildings on the property treat it as if Groo just landed there.
Roll one dice, all players within the number of spaces of the dice roll lose one turn due to residual Groo damage.
The victory conditions are the same last surviving player wins, there is a chance that all remaining players will go bankrupt at once, in that case Groo wins.
I know it’s a matter of Taste…
Posted: May 22, 2010 by datechguy in gamingTags: axis of fedora, gambling, robert stacy mccain
but I have to disagree with Stacy a bit. It all depends on who you are playing slots with. My wife used to go with her mother all the time to play slots and it was a social activity for them.
Myself however I’m a craps man, numbers and mathematics and all that.
Around the blogroll 3/19/10
Posted: March 19, 2010 by datechguy in fun, gaming, opinion/newsTags: blogs, bridge, don't ask don't tell, double standards, Israel, nato, obama
Let’s take a peek around the blogroll and see what we can see:
Dan Collins notes a double standard on gaffes:
But despite all of the available evidence that so easily destroys the meta-narrative of Obama’s brilliance, we still have yet to see him get the same treatment that Gerald Ford, Reagan, Quayle, or G.W. Bush did; where are all of the jokes about his educated idiocy? About Hirohito signing the surrender aboard the Missouri? About him listing the 57 states? No one seems to see the humor in any of this.
This reminds me a bit of why I think Obamacare is such a priority for this administration.
On the left side of the aisle Dissenting Justice takes issue with John Sheehan and his opinion of Gay Soldiers in the Dutch army:
Sheehan’s comments are absolutely bankrupt. 23 of the 26 NATO members allow out gays and lesbians to serve in the military. Only the US, Turkey and Portugal do not. Under Sheehan’s “logic,” NATO itself is ineffective due to the presence of gay soldiers.
There is no question however that the Dutch certainly didn’t cover themselves with glory in Bosnia. I’ve given my opinion on gays in the military here.
And Finally Peg at What if notes that both the administrations dealings with Israel and her showing in the North American Bridge association championships leave much to be desired:
his kind of excessive and weirdly paternalistic attitude to the state of Israel, directed so clearly from the top, seems to come out of a kind of unexamined personal animus. The long record that Obama has of friendship with virulent enemies of Israel has not gone unnoticed.
As the old saying goes; only time will tell. Let’s hope that the rest of the time this week is kinder to my bridge performance, too!
Hey Peg, at least you never played with a partner who liked to bluff when bidding. It really changes the game.


