House Rules
 

When you guys play board games and the like what are your favorite rules variations?
Here are some I like: Monopoloy for money. You start the game with 1000 bucks, with each buck equalling a penny. So its like a ten dollar buy-in. Play is as normal. You set a time limit, say an hour, and at the end of an hour you get a penny for each dollar you have left. Great fun.
This next one got started when we were playing Texas Hold 'Em with a deck of those Iraq's Most Wanted cards. Anyhow, the 8 of Hearts is a complete chode bastard so before we play we pick a card at random we play that if you stay in all the way to the river with an 8 of Hearts or the random card you get 10 percent of the pot.
Same time Risk is also the bomb. You can make unlimited troop movements from one territory. Say you have 20 on Greenland. You could move 5 to one territory touching it and 5 to another territory touching it. Surge attacks, Spoils of War, connected Empire bonuses and other such goodness spice up the game. A complete version can be found on Risk 2 and you can even play it online!

I have lots of Monopoly games, so when playing one of them, I take all the money from the others to make sure we never run out.
My House Rule is a variation on the Free Parking rule. Okay, 500 is placed in the middle of the board. And whenever you pay to the bank, it goes straight to the middle of the board and continues to grow. Anyway, when someone lands on free parking...they get the jackpot in the middle!

-oddguy :cool:

Instead of Clue, we play Hit and Run (Which is practically a whole other game). You choose a character, two weapons, and a room of the houson the board that is going to be your headquarters. When you come face to face with another player, you kill them with your weapon and have to make it back to your headquarters before the player playing the police catches you. If you roll doubles, you can use a special attack (Like, "Tap dance on Mrs. Peacock's head, and freeze police"). It's a game where points don't matter.

dude..... thats awesome.....


I play various board games.... but the people around me normally don't know the rules, and I hide the instruction booklets.... this usually turns out with the odds in my favor..... if ya know what I mean :fuzwink: :fuzwink:

I do that too, and if you land on go you get £400, I dunno If it's in the rulebook, but I've played it like that for ages

In Monopoly, I make my own Chance and Community Chest cards. a Chance card:
"Some psychopathic person beats you with a rubber duck and smashes a coconut over your head. Pay $300 in hospital fees." It makes it more fun.

ROFL, more creative gems by Ann.

I love the Free Parking rule. More than once, that jackpot has really pulled my fanny out of the flame, if'n ya catch my wake. I hate the word fanny, but it sure sounds funny. Heh heh, fanny. Anyway, that's about the extent of my rule-changing is the Free Parking Jackpot.

If you ever go to England, do NOT use the word fanny!

Umm heh heh okay. Might I inquire why?

Fanny describes the little thing a women has that she does not generally display to the public!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The thing down below!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't play board games unless they involve Play-do. Ah, the good ol' Grape Escape was the only board game for me.

:eek: :confused: That's news to me. Curse the bizarre differences between dialects! Heh heh heh, one time an uncle or something of mine was in like New England or the U.K. or somewhere and asked some storekeeper where he could find some oars, and the guy said something like "Ye'll be wantin' to call them 'paddles' 'round 'ere." :D ;) ROFL, that's one of the best stories I have.