Jane43
absent
I like logic games so Addoku is one of my favourites. I also do a cryptic crossword every day. I play board games with my grandchildren and I play backgammon against my computer. I can, if pushed, play chess but I never seem to have enough time to think what I am intending to do and am really not very good. I am better at Chinese chequers.
I should like to be able to play cribbage, a game my mother taught me and I used to play with my extended family. The two grandsons who I see most often are probably a wee bit too young, but I might show them how in the not too distant future. Mr absent is not interested.
When I was a child I used to sit watching my parents playing Cribbage for hours, it fascinated me, I can hear them now ‘Sixteen two, sixteen four, look all night you'll see no more’. When I was a teenager I asked them to teach me but I couldn’t grasp it. As a family we also played Newmarket for pennies, a card game called Fish and Monopoly.Nowadays I do a Soduko everyday on my iPad, I also like crosswords and Mah Jong. I started to play Candy Crush but stopped when I reached the very high levels and it took days, sometimes a week, to complete one level
My boys used to love to play Frustration, Computer Battleships, Mousetrap, Buckaroo and Operation
15/2, 15/4 etc.
I still play cribbage with DH and some DDs and GSs. I’m sure we’ll be taking a pack of cards on holiday.
Games with the younger grandchildren: UNO, Labyrinth, Connect 4, Game of Life, Othello, Pairs, Snap, Consequences (pen and paper game). I’m hoping to teach them Backgammon and Chess although I’m not very good at either of them!
Not really into computer games but years ago I played Myst and have recently been wondering if I should buy the updated version. Still, I spend far too much time on screens, so maybe not!