January 5, 2008
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Yut
Yesterday we were invited to a friend's house for a slightly late New Year's party. After dinner we played a traditional Korean game which I had no clue how to play, at first. It looked to me like the object of the game was to throw four sticks around and yell. But I quickly learned that the sticks function as something like dice, and you move your pieces on the game board according to the way the sticks land. Click Here for a description of the game. After the game we played the traditonal American New Year's game of Uno. Of course, our friends' second-grade daughter won. hahaha.
I can't remember the last time I actually played a game not involving the killing of computer opponents or managing an imaginary Madden football team, much less a game with other people. Hanging out with our friends last night made me want to go out and buy all the board games I used to play but have forgotten. Do you ever hang out with friends and play board games just for the heck of it?
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Yes.
I'm particularly good at Taboo.
Yes.
I'm particularly good at Taboo.
Yeah... I play scrabble with YOU!
our family didn't get to play yut-nol-i altho we'd planned on it. half the fun is in the different "techniques" people supposedly use to throw the yut, and the sounds the sticks make as they hit each other and land (or the sounds people make as they throw). kids love it.
the killing of opponents can also happen in yut-nol-i, which may be more to your liking. it involves a high-speed acceleration of a yut towards the person and not the ground.
RYC: I think you should borrow it from the library...unless you like to buy books.
I don't know how to play yut, either. But I'm awesome at Uno, especially Cutthroat Uno.
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