> > Also, in response to Howards post, when my sister was little, she used to play noughts and crosses by adding boxes on the side when she was in danger of losing. Board games are the most fun when you flagrantly disregard the rules!!
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> I've invented a fun way to play Scrabble, which unfortunately works best in Norwegian, since we concatenate words to make new ones. (For example, instead of "turkey sandwich" we say "turkeysandwich" -- in Norwegian, of course).
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> Playing Scrabble with this in mind, it's prefectly okay to form new words by adding to another as long as you can come up with an explanation for what the word means. Like, if "boat" is on the board, you can add "wife" to get "wifeboat" (as I said, this works better in Norwegian) and explain it's a boat for the wife in the family. Add "shoes" to get "wifeboatshoes", and you get the special shoes recommended for wifeboat sailing. Etc. You get the funniest words (and explanations), and it's much easier to get something played and get a LOT of points. :-)
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> Trav"with modifications, it should work in English too"holt

My family and I like to play Boggle (technically a board game? or not? anyway), but eventually we got bored with the regular version and my dad and I invented 'Almost-Boggle' or 'Intuitive Boggle.' Regular Boggle works by finding the words in a randomly mixed four-by-four square of lettered dice; Intuitive Boggle works by finding the words that would be there if there were just one more letter (any letter you want, any place in the word.) Obviously, this game grew out of years of frustration ("If there were only a 'w' there I could have 'twister'!!!")

Lire"I wonder how 'Almost-Scrabble' would work?"lyn