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Mevater

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 2:16 pm

Can anyone recommend easy to learn and play Board Games (with a short description, please), playable on Shabbos, along the lines of Othello and Overturn, that interest anyone from teens to adults and don't go on forever?

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chocolate moose

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 2:19 pm

Mancala.

queen

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:40 pm

backgamon

amother

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:43 pm

obsessed with RISK

it will go forever and it takes time to learn - but I can't help it - I saw board games and had to say it

RISK RISK RISK and more RISK
NOW THEY HAVE 2010!!!!! Help

but to somehow answer RUMMIKUB is amazing but it is not a board game... apples to apples is also great.

posted anon as those who know me, know about my obsession with RISK RISK RISK RISK RISK Nervous

shabbatiscoming

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:44 pm

upwords (its like scrabble, but better:>)

de_goldy

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:47 pm

not for shabbos though

Mishie

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:49 pm

We're also big Mankala fans.
Another favorite is UNO.
There are other versions of UNO - like UNO STACKO.
I have a Junior version for my little ones, it had cute pictures of fruit on them.
Some ppl. play Monopoly, but not e/o holds you can on Shabbos....
Also with Clue, there's a way to play on Shabbos, with Bobby-Pins... Don't ask.... I remember spending Shabbos afternoons at my friend's house, and this is how they played...

mimsy7420

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:50 pm

Blokus is very fun

chocolate moose

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:54 pm

You can't play Upword on Shabbos. It's in one of the new English halachah books.

yersp

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 3:56 pm

Life, Trouble, Battleship.

Purple Hug Bunny

Mon, Oct 30 2006, 4:29 pm

skip-bo, can also take forever.
Payday
Set

shabbatiscoming

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 2:53 am

SaraG wrote:

You can't play Upword on Shabbos. It's in one of the new English halachah books.

we looked it up. you can play it because it is not a perminent structure. you are going to take it apart so it is not like you are writing. we play it many shabbatot.

shopaholic

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 9:44 am

Sorry, Rummikub. Gotta start digging them out again now that we have long Friday nights.

JMto2

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 9:54 am

Othello
Mastermind

chocolate moose

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 9:58 am

I learned that Upwords is one fo the games that you abs. cannot play.

ShabbosisComing, do you leave notes for your family with the letters from a Scrabble (or other) set?

shabbatiscoming

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 10:00 am

SaraG wrote:

I learned that Upwords is one fo the games that you abs. cannot play.

ShabbosisComing, do you leave notes for your family with the letters from a Scrabble (or other) set?

no, I dont. we play the game and then we put it away.

we looked it up, that if you are playing a game with letters but have every intention of not leaving it as a perminant structure, then it is ok.

DefyGravity

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 10:03 am

Phase 10
Uno
Life
Trivial Pursuit
Rummikub
Poker

roza

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 10:10 am

SaraG, about Scrabble someone asked long time ago R. Marlow Z'L and he said OK ( if you have nothing better to do on Shabbos), also I read in The 39 Melochos :

Quote:

Letter and word games
Playing a childrens' game that entails arranging lettered or numbered tiles in a framed board is permitted on Shabbos because this is the same as arranging loose cards or blocks next to each other. (however, this is prohibited if the separate tiles combine to form a single picture, as in puzzle, because forming the unified picture is equivalent to drawing.) Similarly, one may arrange the lettered tiles of a Scrabble game to form words on the game board tiles.

This is only permited if one is not in the habit during the week of recording the score in writing; otherwise it would be Rabbinically prohibited.

However, if the board is designed with framed squares into which the tiles are fitted snugly (e.g. Deluxe Scabble set), snapping the mumbered cards or game pieces into place is prohibited in all instances.

chocolate moose

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 10:19 am

In Upwords you snap the letters into place.

roza

Tue, Oct 31 2006, 10:20 am

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