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"why not spend the money on innovating new games and or new forms of already present games,"

Maybe new versions of old games? Never seems to get worn out i guess:

http://www.boardgames.com/monopolygames1.html

Yikes, and one of those links leads to another list for colleges :O
Not going to admit to seeing 3 of those at my parents house.... ;)

There seems to be few new games and mostly party/trivia games, tho Apples to Apples was a fun party game during the holidays.

Crossbows and Catapults FTW! I loved that game! Here are some presents for you:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/game/30328/
http://www.boardgames.com/bacrca.html/
http://www.mooseworld.com.au/battleground/

Another thing that's more difficult to address is the inordinate amount of setup time that some games take. Witness Axis & Allies. Its a great game, but every time I want to play it, I realize that its going to take at least 30 to 45 minutes to set up, and the thought of that is enough to get me motivated to do something else.

Have you tried Super Scrabble?
It's like regular Scrabble, only it takes longer!

You can't buy Clue for a sticking quater!

http://www.boardgames.com/clue.html

$16.95 plus shipping

Also, for a different kind of strategy, you might try out 1313 Dead End Drive. It's a game about inheritance. You start the game with a WHOLE bunch of heir game-pieces, dealt out to the players at random and in secret (any player can move any Heir piece during their turn), which must be moved out of the house/board in order to recieve their share of the loot. There is also a deck of action cards that let you do things like trip one of the many booby-traps within the house (thus eliminating an Heir, which causes their share of the loot to descend to the next Heir in the hierarchy (right down to the dog and cat)) or swap an Heir card with another player. The game ends when the deck runs out of action-cards, and the winner is the player whose heirs (the ones that made it out of the house alive) inherit the most loot.)

Well. Might as wel brush up on Lunar Rails, get ready for developing the moon.

sorry, you didn't get the contract it went to halliburton

^_^ Another fun game to play is Encore. While it does involve singing, it doesn't judge your singing voice, just your knowledge of lyrics. And, as the contest involves the teams going back and forth singing a section of lyrics containing the word on a card, there's no penalty for not having grown up in a particular era of music, as I've found in other singing games. Fun for the whole family, as the older members supply songs from the classical rock-and-roll era or even the Big Band era while the kids supply the latest childrens songs and jingles.

For those of you wondering what this whole SCO vs. Linux thing was about, I can finally reveal the truth.

As chairman and CEO of Canopy I've done a lot for the Open Source community. I've promoted investments in companies like Linux Networx, who make the third fastest supercomputer in the world and use Linux to do it. Companies like Lineo the masters of embedded Linux. Also Trolltech producing the incredible QT widget set used by the KDE project. And of course Caldera, producing the finest Linux distribution and pushing forwards the United Linux initiative.

But one shadow lay over my record of achievements. Despite all I had done for the Linux and Open Source communities, I still had never achieved the triumph I most desperately sought. Not once had an article I submitted been accepted by Slashdot :(

I'm sure my fellow Slashdotters can understand how this gnawed away at my soul.

Together with Darl McBride and David Boies I hatched a master plan, to achieve my dream of an accepted Slashdot article or to destroy Linux trying.

Caldera would purchase IP rights from the Santa Cruz Operation and with funding from Sun and Microsoft would use them as the springboard to launch a devastating legal and PR blitz against Linux. As part of this Darl would write a searing open letter to the Open Source community, drawing responses in return. One of these from Groklaw would give me the opportunity I needed...

As you can see everything has gone exactly to plan. I have my successful Slashdot submission, and I'm sure that looking back on it you can all see it was worth any 'collateral damage' along the way.

Darl, you can call off the dogs now.

God bless you all.

Ralphie

Risk :)