What games do people play?
 

Just wondered what you gentlemen get up to when you are not playing computer games.

Personally:

cricket
snooker
chess

Whilst I am at it, is snooker played much in the USA? I assume that pool dominates, but snooker is an excellent game, and I would have thought it has an appeal in the US - a much more difficult and complex game than pool, which over here is seen more as a pub game played when people do not have the time or the skill to play snooker.

I used to be big into tournament chess but have not played in any for quite a few years.

Now my favourite non-computer game is throwing the tennis ball for my Black Lab!

Hmm I've watched I think one year ago, Ronnie O'Sullivan at the Pool Worldchampions in the USA, and he played miserable, so I maybe it is viewed that way in the UK, and I agree that snooker is certainly a more difficult and complex game, but I guess you can't say that a skilled snooker player will automatically also excel at pool, because snooker is the more difficult game.

As for the games I play:

Soccer, Pool, Cardgames and dice games.

I agree, I don't think there is an automatic crossover between the two games. I quite like pool myself, and it does have the massive advantage of a smaller table, whcih means it can be pretty much played anywhere. I just prefer the deeper tactics of snooker.

I don't play much competitive chess over the board anymore, but can still be found on 'instantchess' most days, although I only play blitz nowadays. Perhaps I'm becoming more shallow (or have a shorter attention span) as I get older...

Play a bit of pool, though most ot the time when I go out to play pool with a certain friend I have to sit near the exit so his oponent wont leave without paying :). Other than that I play a bit of chess

I play several tabletop wargames: Civil War miniatures, Naval miniatures (mostly WWI) and an airplane game with models that spans the whole thing - from WWI to modern jets.

At the time: Only one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyNuriXG3BQ

:lol:

(don't play any real games atm.)

Uno

I have a metric ton of board war games and role playing games but unfortunately, all my gameing friends moved away a long time ago and the wife and the rest of the family around here aren't gamers beyond Monopoly (blech !) :nope:

Therefore, I never get to play games outside the computer.

Probably the closest thing to a game I play outside the computer would be ARG's (Alternate Reality Games). You use a computer to play them, but unlike a video game, the game occurs in real life all around you in real time. The people running the game (The puppet masters) organize everything so that you and the other players actually feel like you've really stumbled accross some kind of conspiracy plot or something. This will involve everything from finding and decrypting real codes hidden everywhere (From websites to actual physical items), interactions with game characters (If the plot demands it, you can end up having to go meet a game character face to face). You can get phone calls, emails, etc... from characters in the game.
Once one of us players were sent an email with a coded message in it. We deciphered it to read three numbers, a dot, two numbers, two letters, and an address. We checked the address and it turned out to be a library an hour or so away from me and we figured the rest of the code was Dewey Decimal Sytem. So I went to the library, hunted down the book, and found a slip of paper with an important coded document for us to work on....
Ultimately, we saved Seatle from being blown up by a nuclear device. :D

I havn't played a good ARG in a while now.. but it's something I'm considering getting back into. The best one I ever played was called AWARE. The Puppet Masters actually set it up so that multiple groups of players ended up working against each other. It was briliant. My group even went so far as to set up a fake website, leaked it to the other groups, and then filled the site up with information that would send them in the wrong directions. :up:

Chess, and occasionally Abalone and Backgammon. I also like Skat, but almost never get together the two additional players I would need for that - so I haven't played it for many years. I perform decent in chess, mediocre in Backgammon and sub-optimal in Abalone. I also tried out Chinese chess and Go, but did not really get the taste of the two.

Heavy Pool playing during my university years.

Two games I totally hate are Ludo (=Aggrevation), and Nine-Men's-Morris.

Uno is a good game. Like you Steve, used to play a lot of tabletop wargames, mostly WW2. Good fun, but what a pain to setup and put away again in the same afternoon - and hard work on the back muscles leaning over that damn table! I guess that pc-based wargaming has largely pushed it into a minority activity now.

I spent some hours painting figures for wargaming in my time, I'll tell you!

I like hurling, but I don't play with any club. Not the best at team sports :p

Used to play a lot of tennis and rugby (no good at rugby, but it was a lot of fun :))

I just used the search-button (for the term "chessmatch") and rechecked the six chess matches some of us had two and a half year ago live on this board. It was a nice idea, and a lot of fun, I think, and for some weeks served this board well.

Boy, time is fleeting...

Tried out golf the other day, my swings are completly useless i think i made a pretty large hole in the ground trying to hit the ball and when i did hit the ball it went sideways:lol:

I use to play rugby for the over 30's team where we would meet up on saturdays tuck in our stomachs push out our chests and try to look mean on the field, by end of the 80mins most of us were stuffed and looking it. Soon as that whistle went we would head of to the club rooms to get drunk. :rotfl: Probably the only reason we played.

I play soccer and golf but had some baseball backgrounds in there a little while back.