...To Be Continued

Yesterday, I spent my whole time talking about Clue but none of the other new games. Also, instead of my usual "The end" at the end, I put "To be continued...". So this is my continued essay thingy. OK, the next new game is called connect four. I don't know anyone who's never heard of it, but just in case: Connect four is a game where you have a VERTICAL board and not a HORIZONTAL board. Each person gets red or black checker pieces specially made so that gravity can pull them to the bottom of the board. The board is made of plastic and it's hollow and it has a whole bunch of holes for the possible places that your checker piece can fall in. You simply drop your checker piece through a space in the top of the board and unless your gravity supply is low, it should fall to the bottom. You and your opponent keep doing this until their checker pieces are in a row of four. Lets move on with the tour... The memory game is nicknamed (by me) the baby game. It has a whole bunch of cardboard cards (Probably not regular cards because the company is afraid that kids will get paper cuts and their parents will sue the company.) with pictures on them. They are separated into sets of two each set with the same picture. The cards are spread out and mixed and if your smart enough, you pick up two cards and hope they have the same picture. Next game... Pictionary I have no idea how to play this or what you do in it because it's my sisters game. Next game... Chutes and Ladders. This is a board made up of 100 squares and each has a number. You spin the spinner and go whatever number of spaces it says. If you just so happen to land on a ladder, you go up to a higher space. If you just so happen to land on a slide, you go to a lower place. First to get to 100 wins. This game was obviously to teach children to be nice because by a ladder, it shows pictures of kids being nice and at the top, they get rewards. On a slide, it shows a kid being bad and getting something bad. Really lame. Last game: Battleship. Out of all of these, it's probably my favorite. Each person gets a board with a bottom section and a top section perpendicular to the other one. They also get five ships. The board is a 10 by 10 grid made of the numbers 1-10 and the letters a-j. Your ships are Cruiser, (two grid spaces) Submarine, (three grid spaces) something else that's three spaces, Battleship, (four grid spaces) and Aircraft carrier (five grid spaces.) you put these all on you're lower board and whoever goes first calls out a grid space, for example: f-2. If you have a ship on f-2 you call hit and the other player puts a red peg on f-2 and calls again. You put a peg on the space of you're ship that they called. If they call a number/letter that you're ship is not on, you call miss and they put a white peg on the space that they called and it's your turn. When all of you're ships get hit on every space, you lose and vise versa. Unless you're looking at each others boards, this should be a long game. The end.

More Games...

into rooms, weapons, and suspects. One person takes a card off of each pile and puts them in a paper pouch without looking. This represents the person, the weapon, and the room that Mr. We got a lot of new games in the last few months. Some we had a long time ago, but they broke, and some that we've wanted for a long long long long long long long long long long long long long long time. The games that we already had are: Life, Sorry, Scrabble, Star Wars Monopoly, and Disney Monopoly. (We have a lot more old games but I'm only mentioning the ones in the picture. The new games are: Connect 4, That memory game that I have no idea what it's called, Pictionary, Clue, Chutes and Ladders, and Battleship. First, I'll talk about Clue. A few days ago, my big sister, my friend and I had nothing to do. My mom said she had Clue and my sister was all exited even though I'd never heard of the game. Soon, she taught us. Now we play it at least three times daily. There are 21 cards. Six have the different suspects on them, (Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock, Ms. White, Mr. Green, Professor Plum and Ms. Scarlet.) six have weapons, (Revolver, Candlestick, Wrench, Knife, Lead pipe, and Rope.) and all the rest have rooms. The layout of the board is basically a hallway connecting to all the rooms. Before the game, the cards are separated into weapons, people and rooms. One of each go into a paper pouch. The rest of the cards get passed out equally to each player and no one knows what anyone else has. They also get a sheet of paper that they can mark off suspects and other information on. Each player chooses a suspect and take turns rolling the dice. They can move as many spaces as they want as long as it's less than the number on the dice. If they pass the open door of a room, they can go in. Once they're in the room, they can suggest or accuse someone, the weapon they killed Mr. Boddy with, and the room he was killed in. If one of their suggestions are wrong, the other players show that person his or her cards that he suggested that they had. If they had the card, obviously the person or item isn't in the paper pouch. Once you're absolutely sure, you can accuse. After that, you take the cards out of the paper pouch and see if you're right. If you're wrong, you're out and the others continue.
To be continued...

Games

These are new or old games... I don't know how to put it. These are from when my dad was a kid... and were in the shed when I found them yesterday... So they're new to me but technically, they're old. Okay, so every one's clear on that subject? Good. The humungo electrical kit thingy is called an electric kit or something. You get to make a whole bunch of cool circuits by messing around with wires and springs even though I've never actually tried. It's just instinct. The batteries leak which is just a fancy way of saying that we need new ones. It was in an old box with a picture of three people smiling as they were around the kit like commercials always show to advertise. Since my grandpa hated how they did this, he took a marker and drew moustaches on them and gave them speech bubbles that said: "It doesn't work!" "Did you read the manual?" "No." "Oh well". My dad and my grandpa hate commercials because of this example. "Dad, my head hurts." than the dad gets up holds up a box and smiles... "Why don't you try some kid aspirin! It's extra chewy and has flavors including cherry and vomit." and it goes on and on. This is an example of the real world: "Dad, my head hurts." pause "Dad, my head hurts" pause "DADMYHEADHURTS!!!" The dad is mad and says: "GO TO THE MEDICINE CABINET AND LOOK FOR SOMETHING AND LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!" I'm going to carry on. The plastic game is called Mastermind. One person goes to one side and takes four colored pegs and puts them in a certain combination hidden behind a wall. The other has ten chances to guess it in those rows. The person hiding the combination then puts the teeny pegs to tell if they're right or wrong. The last and final one is called chess and checkers and backgammon and something called Acey ducey. The end.

Reality Factory

As I showed before, I have a video game making program called Genesis 3D. On the same website, I found another program similar to Genesis 3D called Reality Factory. After I downloaded it, I realized that it also had a demo of a real game that I've never heard of. I use this one instead of Genesis 3D because it has more options and lots of other things that Genesis doesn't have. The only thing it doesn't have, is lots of textures like Genesis 3D. But I've figured out how to add you're own pictures for textures, so that won't be a problem. The thing I'm trying to figure out is a good game to make. No one likes historical games because everyone I know doesn't like history. In fact, every one I know doesn't like school period. So I might just make a game of my house where you walk around and do nothing in particular. But until then, I'll just wait. The end.

Mr. Rubik's Evil Brother

He finally came!!! The evil twin (or almost) of Mr. three by three Rubik's! His name is Dr. four by four Rubik's*. Two nights ago, my granddad all the way from Massachusetts! The next day, (like he always does) went to the mall with my sister and I. While we were there, we saw this thing at a puzzle store all trapped up in a cage. (Or rather, a box.) We ended up getting it anyway and bringing it home. I was the first to try it. I solved the top green side of the cube and got stuck there and no one else has solved it. But, he was in a cage and the cage told all the evil secrets about him and showed how to defeat him. (I mean, the WEBSITE where you learn how to defeat him.) So I'm going to attempt to defeat him again, and if and when I fail, I'll go to the website and I'll beat him and if HIS evil twin (or brother) comes called Mr. five by five Rubik's, I will defeat him. So on and so forth. The end.

*These are fake names. It's really called Rubik's revenge.

The Broken Computer

This, as you read in the title, is a broken computer. But that's not all! This is the most IMPORTANT computer in the house... and it's broken. It has all the computer programs that I use for stop-motion and special effects for photos... But most of all... IT'S MY ONLY SOURCE OF OFFLINE GAMES!!!!! My dad says the Hard drive (whatever THAT is) is broken. So I asked my sister if I would have to start my whole Star Wars Battlefront account all over again since I'm almost finished with it. She said that I would and started laughing because she'd probably get ahead of me. So usually, I just hold the controller and look at the blank screen and pretend I'm playing. Right now, I'm just waiting for the computer to get fixed if it takes all year!!! Umm... what should I talk about now... Hmmmmmmmmm.... The end.

Snow!

Finally! After months and months and months and months and months and months and months of now snow this winter, it snowed at last! Unfortunately, we weren't prepared because none of us knew it would snow until a few days before. BUT THE BEST PART IS, IT SNOWED ON A THURSDAY!!!!! THAT MEANS WE DIDN'T HAVE SCHOOL!!!!! Oh, yeah, it snowed a few days ago... it's already gone. :'-(-{-< Oh well, at least it snowed. At six O'clock in the morning the snow was about four inches deep. By the middle of the day, it was half that. By the next day, it was gone. But the next day after that, it was supposed to snow again! All day long. But it took about half the day for the ground to cool enough so that the snow could land on the ground so by the end of the day we only had half an inch of snow. During most of that time, I actually took advantage of the day off and played on the computer. When I did go outside, since we only had firewood gloves that weren't very good for snow, I had to have a snowball fight with my bare hands. Eventually, I went inside after ten minutes, I went inside and actually did something useful with my time... computer. By the time the snow was only in some parts of the yard, it was frozen so you could hardly move it. But there were icicles everywhere possible. We had fun with those for a few minutes and went back inside. That's how I spent my valuable time. The end.