things you learn from games

We’ve had a couple game nights this week. On Tuesday night we played Balderdash with our community group and Thursday night we played Loaded Questions with my family. I always love learning new things about people through games – they’re almost as telling as Myspace surveys. But as Amy pointed out, it’s a good thing our community group already knew each other fairly well, otherwise we might have all been worried about saying the wrong thing in front of someone or making someone uncomfortable.
Here are some of the things I learned this week…

• “bathetic” doesn’t mean “the process for washing your prosthetic” or “proper rules for a Roman bath” it means, “pretending to care”
“bufagin” doesn’t mean “what you do after a bird craps on your car.” it’s actually a substance found in toad’s milk
• my sister Kara makes a duck sound when she scratches her throat
• Wild Women of Wongo is a film about a village of beautiful women, with ugly men, who meet a village of beautiful men, with ugly women on the other side of a tropical island one fateful day
• my parents would rather be in their own home than most anywhere else in the world
• when thinking of where someone would place a statue of them, most of my family thinks of local parks – as in Dallas or Mesquite – my sister Kara and I think big – as in Central Park, New York City.
• my brother-in-law Tim prefers to think on the pot while I prefer to think in the shower
• the men in my family would like to be able to control the minds of our spouses, while Kara would prefer to control the mind of “the one who pees on the carpet”
• our house would be named, “Queen Sheeba’s Pad” – for Presley, not for Laurie
• when playing Balderdash, men tend to take longer to answer the question but their answers are usually short and to the point. women however don’t think about it as long but will explain their answers within the answer. i.e. “It is still illegal in Oklahoma to destroy… landscaping, because they provide tornado protection.” or “It is still illegal in Oklahoma to destroy… the soles of shoes, but they can be recycled.”
• the Treadaways always find ways to take their games “once tip fur there”

What games do you and your family play? Found any good two person games?