Games to play onboard or in the pub?

[Wardy]

What (easy to play) games do you play on those cold wet nights on a mooring or having escaped to the local yacht club bar?

Julie and I have been gambling away on 'Crown and Anchor', 'Yacht' and 'Batten down the hatches'. We'd like to find more, similar, games that involve little in the way of skill or equipment; a pack of playing cards or some dice only...

 

[snowleopard]

i generally find card games boring but will enjoy an occasional game of crib. it has the added virtue that it is the only card game it is legal to play in a pub. a scoreboard that folds in half to the size of a pack of cards is an advantage.

 

[Robin]

SWMBO is a Gin Rummy fan (with and without the cards!) and we have a cribbage set on board and some other nice wood boxed game sets like chess (full sized and travel size) plus even electronic chess for one or 2 players. Oh and we have a boxed set of dominoes too bought in France from their version of Nauticalia, haven't used these as there were no instructions and I've only just found some on the internet. I wouldn't mind backgammon and mahjong either but cannot remember how to play.

 

[Talbot]

Whilst I accept that backgammon is somewhat outside your game description. There are some nice portable kits that are suitable for onboard use.

Have you considered a jigsaw, using one of those roll-up containers?

mah-jong - although this is better played with 4 people.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

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mah-jong - although this is better played with 4 people.

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Great game, as long as you have an old Chinese wise man who can score the bugger /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[T_S]

One of the presents I had from my two sons this year was a batterey powered Air Football table! absolutely brilliant little toy. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Wife likes it as well! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[ShipsWoofy]

We play scrabble a lot. Have the deluxe version as it has grooves on the board to hold the letters.

Crib is another favourite as well as backgammon which never gets boring.

 

[Tia]

My vote is for Cribbage... .a great game for two and easy to master ... the scoreboard can be small and portable and you don't need a lot of table room to play. Keep an ongoing tally of wins/losses and make bets on the side as to who will reach milestones up to you what you bet! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Tia

 

[Joe_Cole]

It makes me think that what we really need is a "Yachting Monopoly".

Mayfair and Park lane would be MDL marinas. Old Kent Road would be a drying mud berth.

Community Chest would be the Weather Forecast etc. ("Force 10 imminent, make for the nearest safe haven") ("Your ensign is wrong. Pay a £100 fine") ("Wash from a Mobo has spilt your G&T and you take two days to clear up the mess") ("Red diesel has gone up to £2.50 a litre....")

Railway stations will be replaced with Chandlers. Or should that be the Jail?

Not sure how we tackle unnecessary radio checks..............................

 

[Robin]

I should get your idea patented fast! There is a taxi driver here in the south (was on South Today TV news) who just invented a 'taxi' game that has displaced Monopoly in the Christmas ratings and she is probably on her way to becoming a millionaire..... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[ashanta]

Learned a game in the German pubs when stationed there in the 70's. It's a dice game, 3 dice and you play initially to get out of the game as the last one with all the beer mats (decals) has to buy the round. Sometimes there could be many playing this game and if you played it right you could have free drink all night. Once all the beer mats (12) have been distributed to those who have lost each game. The game continues only with those who have the beer mats. If you are doing well you will be off loading your beer mats onto those who are losing games and once you have none left you also will leave the game until finally one person ends up with all the beer mats and is the loser. The value of the dice thrown determines how many beer mats go to the loser.
The basics are you score say 3 for three of a kind or 2 for a run and one if only mixed numbers which the highest one would count. This means that if 3 of a kind wins the person with the lowest dice score will receive 3 beer mats. The high scoring numbers are 2 x 1 which is called Schochem and what ever the number of the 3rd dice is the schoch number i.e. 2x1 plus a 5 is schoch 5 and if you get 3 x 1 then you have schoch aus which cannot be beaten unless someone achieves the score in less throws than you. (you have 3 goes at the dice. If you throw 2 x 6 you can turn one 6 into a 1 and play the remaining two dice to try and and get schoch score. If you get 2x1 in your first or second go you can play the single dice to try and get a higher schoch score.
Sounds complicated but it's quite simple really and we still play in the summer at BarbQ's with the odd bottle of something brought back from the holidays and it's great fun.

Regards.

Peter.

 

[Wardy]

Time to learn a few games

Think it's time to learn how to play cribbage, an uncle tried to teach me it when i was seven; went to his funeral on 23rd December, it was his favourite game so i should have a go at learning it.

Mah Jong sounds complicated.

Like the idea of the dice game... shall give that a go

Sailing Monopoly... what a great idea! I'm sure there'd be loads of boat owners want that on board... I would!

 

[snowleopard]

spoof?

best pub game i know.

for those who don't know the rules it's quite simple: each layer holds 0-3 coins in his closed fist, each player in turn has to guess the total number of coins. all guesses must be different. the one who guesses the correct total drops out. when there are only 3 left in, the next one out nominates a drink, the next out pays for it and the last drinks it.

once got our irish pilot totally legless in under an hour. the following morning's trip downriver could have been a disaster.

 

[mirabriani]

"Cheat" Very easy to learn, kids quickly pick it up.
Of course you learn about people.....
Pack of cards is distributed equally to all players
First players says eg 3 kings, next player might say
1 queen (or king or ace) and so on until some one shouts "Cheat" If some one is cheating they pick up cards
If the call is incorrect, the caller picks up cards.
First one out of cards is the winner.
Happy new year Briani

 

[ShipsWoofy]

Re: Time to learn a few games

Cribbage is great for two people but better with four. If you know how your partner plays it can become quite cunning. I guess like bridge.

I taught my gurlyfriend to play crib and now she beats me nearly every game.

 

[T_S]

Re: Time to learn a few games

Hmmm...seems to me you need to get your staff trained to hold a few key cards under the table for you woof! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif