Round and around they go

Mesmerizing

April Fuel !

Game Three:"We Didn't Play Test This At All"
OK ...let's take these in reverse order. "WDPTTAL", as we like to refer to it, was a sock rollickin' laugh hardy mess o' joy. How can I recommend this game enough? Not possible! Who won you ask? Who cares I reply! Went 2 rounds with this whacky pasteboard offer and could have gone the entire night just playing this over and over. I think Red Frog took one round or maybe we all lost. Can't recall. Too busy holdin' my sides to try and keep them splittin' from the laughter! Short rules and total chaos! Get this now you must! Yep!

Game Two: "Mad. The Card Game"

Now we've played Mad the board game before and it was a tunne o' funne. The Mad Card game was likewise weighty with pleasure. Below we see the winning hands. Red Frog and Evil E may be mad but not in an angry way with this one. Picked it up at a yard sale last season and had to get the rules online. Well worth the effort. Try it, if you can find it!

Game One: "Asteroyds"

Movable asteroids are set up on a hex board and moved at the beginning of each turn by a random throw of three dice, one red, one blue and one white. Contestants must maneuver their spacecraft via a timed pre-plotted course to land on asteroids marked with unique symbols. Well, that all sounds pretty arcane but it's not really that bad. Actually simple once you get started. Tricky to win though as it's easy to outsmart yourself as to where your landing pad will be. Evil rejoices at his master moves which brought him in for the win. Played several rounds and I believe Dr Kirby took the first win. He also brought the game. A good mover with expansion rules (which we did not use) to add to the complexity. Try this one too.

This is a close up of one of the ships at a target landing station. OOH! Spacey!

And let's close out with a DEVO quote!

"Cube top, squared off, eight corners, ninety degree angles,

flat top, stare straight ahead, stock parts, BLOCK HEAD!"

See ya next month! Hopefully two more side of our little square circle (Dennis, & Room n Board) will make the groovy scene. They were sorely missed this month.

Forsooth, your honor!

This was the first episode of Perry Mason I've ever watched in my life. Very appropriate that I started with the first episode. Not sure why Mason was not a staple in our household growing up. It was on CBS on Saturday's from 7:30 - 8:30 opposite People are Funny and Perry Como. But on second thought how could you not watch Linkletter or an ex-barber. Blame Game led us astray on the course of the plot which led me to pick the butler. Unfortunately there was no butler in this episode. The board game was not much better with my strategy failing me miserably. I can't remember the last time I won. I'm the anti-Lou Gehrig of game night. My consecutive loss streak must be in the 40s. Maybe it would help if I listened while the rules were explained. Or not.

The Secret to Perry Mason

Legal Beagle

March Masonary: Game One-"Let's watch an episode of Perry Mason and try and guess who dunnit"
OK. This should be a fun deal. Years ago the boys would sit around watch Mason and guess nearly every time. There was a formula! Killer appears at the scene of crime briefly and then early in the trial on the stand for a short question session before Perry would lower the boom at the denoument. Little did we know that tonights episode "The Case of the Restless Redhead" was the very first Mason episode and that the rules didn't apply here. First airing in 1957 A.D. it was the beginning of many a year of Perry programs. If only the show were as hot as some of E.S. Gardners paperback covers, eh? Anywho, Perry trampled the law like a criminal on coke! Hiding suspests, lying to the law, manufacturing and tampering with evidence! Zowie Perr! The jails would be empty of the culpable or filled with the innocent if there was enough of you to go around!

And below we see our winner, the one who guessed the murderer, a weazel faced motel operator with a thin mustache and a shrew wife! Oh! The MUDERER not the one who guessed, heh-heh! Sorry about that Dr. Kirby. We all know you don't work at a motel!

Game Two: "Perry Mason the Board Game"
More like the BORED game. Sheesh! I've had this one for nearly 4 decades and it is a yawner supreme. I warned all our players to NOT stop anyone from bringing in the suspect and winning the game. They were wise and kind enough to take my advice.

Below we see winner numero duo, a man of "Evil". Good Job Mr E, I don't recall the crime beyond the fact that the designer of this twist fest should be in prison.
And me? Blame Game? I doofed this so completely I'm too ashamed to show my entire face! I had no less than 3 different faux pas to my credit that kept me from ending this one a full half an hour from when it did. To the pen with me! The "play pen" that is! Gadzooks!

Doctor or Magician?