Oregon Trial Game

Remember the old Oregon Trial computer game?  I know I played it middle school all the time!  Anyway, they put out a card game about it!  The game isn't that great - it is co-op and you will die most of the time. It is pretty repetitive and very random.  But for nostalgia is a great game - it feels like the computer game.  We both died first time out!  Anyway, if you remember the computer game with fondness, this is a fun game to try out and for the price point is well worth the experience as it is cheap.

Game of States

 

I found this for $10 at the swap meet - The Game of States. It is actually 2005, but seems much older. It really isn't that bad of game - it is actually a pick up and deliver game (very basic...it is a kid game) and actually not bad to play (pretty quick).  For a "regular" board game, this was rather cute and I could see how you could work this into geography homework.  I got all my capitals right for the bonus...Ray only got one!  He needs to work on it! 

 

This is a "gamer" game, but still a fun little find.  I am not sure we'll keep it that long, but I think the kids might like it. 

Therapy the Game

So my sister in law found this at a thrift store and being that's she's a psychologist, she had to have it. This is an 80s game and therefore has many of those pitfalls (roll and move, needing to be on certain spaces, etc.), but yet if you take this with a grain of salt and play for fun (meaning don't get all serious about the answers to the personal questions) and augment a few rules, it really is a bunch of fun.  So this has a trivial pursuit like mechanic in that you are moving around a board, collecting patients, which you get by successful "therapy."  Therapy is when you ask a question to someone and they write down their answer (so like how would you rate your self-esteem from 1 to 10) and you also write it down. If you are get it right, they are "cured."  (you get a 1 point leeway on each side for the numerical ones, so like if their answer as 8, you could put 7, 8 or 9).  You also do group therapy where they write it down and then the rest of you come up with an answer.  The one caveat here is you do need to know each other!  We had a bit of an issue with that with one person only knowing one other, so that was a bit hard at times.  We did change the rule where we never took away pegs (to shorten the game).