What's your favorite game?

[Ronin]

Since its just me and my dog now games are limited to fetch, fetch and a little more fetch.

Sounds the dog's having the time of their life, though :D

 

[Changing4Best]

I have to confess, I have a canister of baby's blocks that I sometimes play with. They are wood and they comfort me. I was very young when I was molested, until I was 6, at which point I think my parents found out about it (it was my father's father who was the culprit). Anyway, playing with blocks is something I maybe never had a chance to do, I am not sure. My mother suffered post partem psychosis, and was put into a mental hospital when I was very young. Nannies and said grandfather and his wife, my Nana took care of me. I have a strange feeling that baby's blocks were not a part of my childhood. So I play with them now to make up for it sometimes. They are somehow comforting.

I wonder if any of you do anything like this to make up for what you lost due to childhood traumas?

 

[Changing4Best]

I have the Microsoft Solitaire Suite, and I love to play Spider. I don't bother checking my scores particularly, just like if I lose a game of WORDS WITH FRIENDS, it does not bother me. I like the PLAYING of the games far more than whether I win or lose. Winning is nice, don't get me wrong, but it does not ruin my day or anything, if I lose a game. I know I did my best and that is what matters most. I know I got my mind off my problems, blasted through some dissociation maybe even, and in general made my day a little more enjoyable. That is why I play. Winning is just a nice bonus if I do so.

 

[Ronin]

I wonder if any of you do anything like this to make up for what you lost due to childhood traumas?

Less for childhood, much more for adulthood that wrecked what functional I had left of me & trusting in meaningfuless and goodness of anything.

So yep, I'm rebuilding attachment to *something*, and as such stocked up on talking stuffies. They're around when I come 'home'. They don't walk out on me, and they don't leave when I need to leave either.

 

[The Albatross]

Hearts, Spades, Backgammon, Ace Duce, cribbage, pente, chess.

No one want's to play Ace Duce, Backgammon or Pente with me anymore because in groups I hogged the top spot. Pente is an abstract strategy game. I love that game better, much, than chess. I like Pente more when it's a 4 person game rather than two.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

I enjoy things like hangman, tic tac toe, checkers, rummy, go fish, apples to apples, balderdash, pictionary, free cell, table football, thumb wrestling, hot hands, electronic battleship, using hula hoops as the bad ass anti-gravity toy it was intended to be and as a jump rope, as well as using the smaller ones that I arm hoop with to play hoop scotch, act like they're steering wheels, have races rolling them, etc. (especially when I teach kids to make their own and how to use them - the adults aren't nearly as much fun.....lol)

I sometimes enjoy setting a timer and making my daily tasks a timed game with self to see just how productive I can be within a certain time frame, but I typically have to be in the right mood for that to actually be fun. lol It can induce some unwanted anxiety if not timed well, or if I'm interrupted by a stressful distraction mid-production.

I also play, "Let's see what treasures/how many feathered friends/how many other living creatures/how many different flowers/how many heart shaped leaves or rocks/how many different edible goodies/etc. we can find today." on my morning nature walks and foraging pursuits and then look up the healing properties/spiritual meanings/habits and sounds and such when I return.

I'd love to find or make a tether ball pole. I used to love those things, although my sore ass shoulders would likely protest. The old school four square game was a favorite, too. Hmmmmm.....sidewalk chalk and a big bouncy rubber ball can hook that up. And bubbles!!! I love to blow bubbles! I want a bubble machine. Was it Lawrence Welk who had the bubble machine on tv? lol

 

[The Albatross]

I also play Castle Siege Age of Empires and am an "emperor/ess" But trend more to build and keep the alliance rather than count my own score. I was doing Age of Sparta right handed (I am left)... but made my goal and it was so dysfunctional and nasty I quit even though I was a General.

 

[Keming]

Dungeons & Dragons. some of the other tabletop rpgs also fascinate, but D&D is always top. Used it to engage trauma, explore possibilities, socialize in an structured setting. There's something wonderful about shared story-telling.

 

[Ronin]

Used it to engage trauma, explore possibilities, socialize in an structured setting.

Ditto, used it to learn choices are real and matter & move the person in another direction / efforts aren't futile.

 

[Changing4Best]

There are a bunch of games at this link:

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Which are designed to improve MEMORY. For us, this is a huge benefit, as PTSD so affects the memory badly. These are for Seniors, but really, anyone can play them. I play the FLOWERS one every day, and it is fun, and hopefully is doing what it purports to do: improve my memory!

 

[Lola Nocheprieta]

Board Games & Table Games
Ingenious, Zilch! (Dice), Five Up (Dominos), Mancala, Go, Boggle, Settlers of Catan, Risk, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Pictionary, Taboo, Zenga!, Pool / billiards, Darts.

Also: Hand and Foot (cards), Farkle (dice), Yahtzee! (dice, and we have a rule that when you roll a Yahtzee you have to yell, "Yahtzee, motherf*ckers!"), Backgammon (just played that last night, board/dice game), and Clue! (I'm always Miss Scarlet, the harlot.)

Used to love playing RPGs in the rw back in the day ... AD&D, but I remember when it was just D&D, and now they are all online. My stepdad has to put his computer in some kind of parental monitoring mode so that it will automatically kick him off after a certain number of hours.

 

[DharmaGirl]

I love bookworm! I have it on my phone and computer. Entertains through all those appointments. I also love the Fallout Series. I am playing Fallout 4 now, and have been since it came out over a year ago. I am learning how to use mods to make the game more fun!