Friday, February 8, 2008

My Board Game That I'm Going To Make Sometime In My Life

If you can read, which you obviously can't because I'm writing this sentence that's only supposed to be here if you CAN read, but unfortunately I wouldn't be putting it here unless you CAN'T read so you're basically just reading this very long sentence just because you want to and not just skipping ahead to the important parts. But if you CAN'T read you're doing good so far because there's no reason that you could read this when you can't read and blah blah blah blah blah. OK, so all of you who CAN read, should have read the title so those two first sentences and this sentence are just if you're too weird to read the title. So you're probably wondering why I took a picture of this board. Maybe It was because I wanted to. But that's my problem. Just kidding. The board is a Lego board that you can put Lego's on and It's also my game board that I'm going to make a game on some time in my life. The game is cool because everything I make up is cool and if you don't think I'm telling the truth, ask someone I know but since you probably don't know anyone I know, let's move on. You may or may not have heard of the game chess, but you only move one piece at a time. If it was real life, everyone would be moving like crazy. That's why I let the people in my game all move at once. But before I get to that, I need to explain the game first. Each piece is a 1x1 Lego piece and each person gets 50-100 pieces. Sometimes more. You might be wondering why I chose so many people. Here's the answer: How many people does one army have? You might say 1000, you might say 100, but you will certainly not say 20 or 10. So, anyway, you split them evenly into about five groups, and each "person" in each group will wear a certain colored 1x1 flat piece on them. This separates them from the other groups. Each army is colored differently so that you can tell those apart also. Each group has an extra Lego board as their "inventory" There are flat Lego pieces certain sizes depending on how big they are in real life. You can put these in the "inventory" The inventory is split into three groups. If only the first part is filled, the people in that group can move 3 spaces each. If two spaces are filled, they can only move 2 spaces each and so on. There are limited amounts of supplies that you can give your people but you can make more in certain parts of the game. You also have about ten horses. You can give these two one group and they can move six spaces each no matter what. Each person also has a small fortress. One person in the group can chop down trees if they have an ax in their inventory and anyone in that group can use the logs they get and exchange them for Lego pieces to edit their castles. You can also make boats to go across the river sometimes located in between the two armies. Trees grow back every four turns. You can go to rocks and mine them and then go to an anvil and a furnace and make new things for your army. When you move, you choose a group and get to move everyone in that group as far as they want as long as their inventory allows it. Before the game, which I failed to mention before, you can set up anyone anywhere as long as they're in that armies half of the board. Now we get to the cool part. You can call an attack from anywhere on the board (as long as your weapon allows it) and attack. The people with bows get to roll dice and if the dice read 1-3, they hit. If they say 4-6, they missed. Or you can just flip a coin. If someone is hit, they are removed from the board. If it's a sword fight, the person attacking has certain cards that say: Stab, slash right, slash up, and so on. He chooses one of these and shows it and before three quick seconds, the other player must choose a defence card. He can choose shield if he has one, but only once. If he blocks, then it's his turn and they do it in reverse. Whoever gets hit first, is removed from the board. Every ten turns, each person can choose one of their dead people back and put them somewhere on their half of the board. The rest of the game continues until everyone on the other team is dead, or if they surrender. There are a whole bunch of other extra things that will just confuse you more so I will let you rest and I'll continue making the game. The end.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Moby-Ball

Here is the list of sports I hate: Soccer, basketball, football, um, um, okay, that's it. Here is a list of sports I like: (some I've never played) Tennis, hockey, ping pong, base ball, capture the flag (Even though it's almost exactly like football.)
and Moby-Ball. I invented Moby-Ball and it's named after my nickname so that nobody can copy it. It's a trampoline game... a game that you play on the trampoline... you need the trampoline to play it... Do you understand!? So... Once upon a time we had a trampoline and it got really boring because we weren't allowed to do flips on it so I invented a game and named it after myself and everyone liked it and I want to play it right now because school can get really boring when you don't do educational stuff like playing. So this is how you play: You get a bouncy ball (Filled with air) about the size of a soccer ball but there'll be a lot of crying if it's as hard as a soccer ball. set it in the middle of the trampoline and make sure the net is fixed. (Unlike the picture.) Everyone starts at one side of the trampoline and tries to kick the ball over the net. (This would be a really dumb game if that was all there is to it.) Eventually, you will realize that you need pinpoint accuracy that not many people have if you want to kick it over the net. So everyone needs to start jumping. If your trampoline is like most trampolines, the ball should bounce in the air. Once it's in the air, you just need to aim your foot under the ball and kick it over any side of the net which you need accuracy for, but not pinpoint accuracy. But it tends to be harder than that... To have accuracy, you need to be balanced and have time... but since everyones jumping at different times, you may not have that. So you usually fall down which is why there's no tackling in this game. Here's an example: You are playing this game with a few other people and you guys finally manage to get the ball in the air... You run to it, but right as you're about to kick the ball over the net, someones jump throws you in the air and you miss the ball by a mile. This is another persons point of view: You and your opponents manage to get the ball in the air. Before you can, one of the others runs to the ball to kick it. You want to score so you sacrifice the ball in the air for your score. You jump and he does some crazy thing and kicks in the opposite direction of the ball. There's a time-out and everyone laughs. This game can be played in two versions. One: Every man for himself. Or Two: Teams. Every man for himself, if you haven't guessed already, means every person on the trampoline tries to score on their own. This is good if you have an odd number of players and you can't split them evenly for teams. Teams is just two on two or three on three or something like that so that you can work together. The end.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The Piano Book

This is a piano book... that teaches you how to play piano... that my dad gave me... that there isn't much to say about it. Oh, yeah, I forgot it comes with a disk too. It's made of cardboard and inside the cardboard is the disk and the book... The book teaches chords, piano keys, fingering, sheet music, blahblahblah, blah, and blah. So does the disk. You put the disk in the TV just in case you didn't know. I know how to do some different things now. Like play some song called Frere' jaques or something. I didn't really learn anything else because everything I need to know, I already know except for how to read sheet music. When I read sheet music everything will be fine. I already know the fingering, the notes, the blahblahblah, blah, and blah. So there's really nothing else to say... The end

Monday, February 4, 2008

The Mysterious Closet of Mysteries... With a special interview with the Lego dude himself!

This is the mysterious closet of mysteries (But I shouldn't have to tell you that if you're like most people... because most people are smart enough to read the title and know that this is a bad subject.). Anyway, I call it that because I only ever go in there if I'm cleaning up my room (I hardly look around even when I go in there.) and when I get extremely extremely extremely extremely bored. The first few things you see in there are a small box of Lego's, my brothers car, and an electric tool kit. Below is just a whole bunch of other toys. The only time I've ever actually looked for a random thing in here was years ago. I got to stay up late that night and I couldn't find anything to do. I simply went in here until I found the joystick* and a game for it**.
I also found a paint ball gun that was still in it's box and a paint ball mask. There's still a whole bunch of other things but haven't looked at them. Instead of looking here when I'm bored now, I look in the shed***.

*The Sidewinder joystick that I put in one of my posts.
**The game called Flight Simulator that I put in one of my posts.
***The shed that I put in one of my posts****
****You could just say everything I put in one of my posts.
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I still have to do my blog more so I'm changing the subject since I'm finished with that other subject. Here is and interview with myself: How are you today? I'm doing fine. What is there to do today? Nothing in particular unless work counts. When is the next day that you are likely to do something fun? Probably at the end of the week. When is your next break? In about five-hundred hours. What do you do after school? Think about what I can't do and what I don't have. What do you do after school besides that? Nothing. What is your favorite sport? Proving my big sister wrong. What is your favorite REAL sport? Playing game consoles. What is you're favorite OUTSIDE sport? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOh.... That's what you meant. Nothing. What is the percentage that you will get the day of tomorrow? Oh, umm, probably 0.0000000000001% maybe less. What is the percentage that you'll like school any time soon? Zippo. What is your next Lego model going to be? A huge city and an atom bomb that I can drop on it. Who lives in this city? Lego people. Isn't that a little demented? No, because Lego people can just put themselves back together. When do you want this Q and A to finish? Now. When do you think this Q and A will finish? Never. If you could take a pill and never have to go to school again would you? Let me guess... Duh! If you met the person who invented school before he invented it, what would you tell him? I wouldn't tell him anything... I would give him a games console and he would make schools that teach how to play games. OK, the last and final question that you will never be able to answer... Do you like chewy candy or crunchy candy or powder candy more? Gee... I don't know... I kinda like them all. Probably chewy candy... cuz it's chewy. That concludes this interview. Bye! See you next time if there ever is one!

Friday, February 1, 2008

My Sisters New Monopoly Game

A few days ago, we went to the mall with my grandpa, my mom and my dad. We were allowed to get anything we wanted, as long as we had enough money. Personally, I didn't want to get anything but instead, save up for something even though I don't know what. My brother got a gun that shoots bubbles. My two younger sisters wanted wallets for some reason. My older sister got an awesome, modern time Monopoly game. I don't really like Monopoly because the money always gets in your way and you never know how much you have total. This one is different. It has credit cards instead. It comes with a calculator thing with two sides. One is where you put your credit card in and add money to it, and one is where you put your credit card in and take money out. (Of course they're not real credit cards.) There are also realistic prices. Instead of getting money around the thousands and the hundreds, you get money around the millions and the hundreds. You can also transfer money from one card to another. Some of the places include: All of the important airports instead of the railroads, the white house, Disney land, and a whole bunch of other cool things. The credit cards have bumps on them so that the calculator thing knows which card has been put in. The pieces for the game are: A baseball cap, a wide screen TV, a puppy in a purse, one of those two wheeled transportation things that I don't know how to explain, a box of mints, and I don't know the rest. For some reason though, the grownups don't seem to like modern age things. I don't know why.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

...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.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

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...