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A List of Board Games That Have Become All Time Favorites

Selecting the top, most sought after board games to play online can be a difficult task. But if we take some time to ask around, popular titles begin to show higher than others. Although some people may find some of the titles in the list unappealing, this article attempts to show how the majority feels. There are timeless classics that practically define the word “board games’, as well as some newer titles in different game genres (word, abstract, German-style, and more).

Chess

Learning to play chess online can be relatively simple, if you are only interested in the basics. However, moving up the ranks can take a lifetime. Regardless of your preferences for playing chess online, the game is both entertaining and challenging. It has survived the ages to become an all time favorite.

Monopoly

This game has become a synonym for the word Board Game. This should not come as a shock, since monopoly is considered to be one of the most successful games of the genre. The real testament of its success lies in figures. Monopoly has sold more than 500 million units since it was first released at the time of the great depression.

Scrabble

Scrabble is a game that needs little to no introduction. Statistics show that thirty percent of Americans keep a game of scrabble in their home. This should be proof enough of the established presence of this board game. Thus, by popular demand, scrabble has made is place in the list of all time favorites.

Settlers of Catan

Most of the success of this board game is basically due to its design. The game features random settings for each event, requiring that participants have a great deal of skill and luck. If you are the kind of person who enjoys strategy games, building and conquering territories, than this is the game for you.

Chutes and Ladders

This is an all time favorite for kids. Adults seem to enjoy it as well for the nostalgia, bringing back happy memories of their childhood..

Tigris and Euphrates

This is another favorite for strategy game lovers. Starts in a setting that resembles the dawn of civilization between two clashing dynasties, where players start off to build their empire. The features skills on managing trade, agriculture, government and religion evenly to become the victor. The game has won first prize in the 1998 Deutscher Spiele Preis. But even then, this game is already a winner for me.

Puerto Rico

A building game set in the colonial era of the Caribbean. The object aim of the game is to gather points by building infrastructures or shipping products (such as corn, sugar, coffee, etc.) to the Old World. Strategic management is the key to this game while assuming various roles (settler, builder, mayor, craftsman, etc.) in every round.

Zingo

This is a lighter board game, similar to bingo. This is an all time favorite everyone can enjoy since it does not require that the players know how to read and write.

So that makes up the list as I see it. You are welcome to find the board games you like the most, depending on the genre of your choice.

Its the same board you know and love on the big iPad screen. But with iPad technology, SCRABBLE becomes a whole new game. Shake to shuffle tiles. Touch to zoom in and out on the board. And drag and drop to lay down letters. All you have to do is put words together — and iPad even helps you do that by giving you a hint for the best word. Play the way you want with customizable game rules and multiple difficulty levels. And follow your progress with game and score stats tracking.

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Tell A Friend – Speading The Word About Your Web-Site

To tell a friend about a product or service you enjoy is to provide your exclusive endorsement. The fact your enthusiasm for any brand or company has germinated into a conversation topic is enough to show the sincerity of your appreciation. Much the same way word of mouth can spread amongst your circle of family and friends, your web site can be sent to thousands of people through an effective, well-implemented tell a friend feature.

In most cases, a link to your tell a friend feature will provide satisfactory results. Placing it in an area where the maximum number of web site visitors can see it will warrant the greatest results possible. Once the link is clicked, a quick and easy to use method for e-mailing or instant messaging the visitors friend should be revealed. The information required to send the recommendation should be as minimized as possible in order to ensure your visitor is not intimidated by the process.

If you possess the expertise or can invest in the necessary web-design services, AJAX enabled features allow users to tell friends about products, services, and web sites without leaving your web site. Similar to the comments areas featured on the popular video sharing site, YouTube, AJAX enabled tell-a-friend features allow the user to enter their friends contact information, send it, and receive a confirmation message without exiting your web site. This can vastly improve the immersive experience and brand recognition generated by your web site.

Once your tell-a-friend feature is installed, you should be patient as you wait for the generation of new traffic. In addition, ensure your existing marketing efforts are generating sufficient entry traffic to cause a residual effect through your new feature. Without an existing base of web site users, your tell-a-friend feature will more than likely not produce the additional traffic you seek.

As a webmaster you know that it would be a huge thing if you could get each and every visitor to ‘tell a friend’ about your web-site. I would signify that for every ‘told friend’ you would be getting a visitor for FREE, better than that, one that had been ‘pre-sold’ because their friend had pre-sold or recommended your site.

A tell-a-friend feature is one of the most effective means for marketing your web site and generating new site traffic. Taking advantage of every potential stream for new network traffic can result in additional exposure and revenue. Do not hesitate to build, institute, and take advantage of a tell a friend feature on your web site.

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This was a Scrabble game played between eight people in June 2005. We played in teams of two, allowing Dutch, English, French and Spanish. Each language was spoken by people on at least two teams, to prevent cheating by made-up words! It was great fun – and it took a lot less time than unilingual Scrabble.

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Top 5 Apps Based On Original Board Games

Here’s gaming over the last half-century: Baby-boomers played board games on boards, and liked it. They were saddened to see Generation X sucked up into newfangled video games and computer games, playing board games to make their parents happy, then disappearing to play Airborne on the computer all alone for hours on end. A few year after that, computers were all connected and if a game wasn’t multiplayer, it wasn’t worth playing. “Millennials” might be best summed up by E.M. Forster’s famous exhortation, “Only Connect.” And that brings us back to the original board games. They’re back, they’re on your iPhone, and we know the 5 best!

Conquest, Sean O’Connor; .99. Predictably, a RISK clone is on our list. Less predictably, it’s not the popular .99 app Lux. Conquest plays faster, is designed to look and feel like the classic board game, and gives you scads of maps and options to choose from. After playing Conquest, Lux and other RISK clones look like kludges.

Monopoly, Electronic Arts; .99. There is no amazing animated sequence of a guy in a top hat and monocle taking down Godzilla, and there is no 3-D camera tracking the progress of a housing development under construction. There is no flashing screen urging “Finish Him!” when you foreclose on a property. It’s Monopoly, just like you remember it. This is a good thing.

Scrabble, Electronic Arts; .99. Confession time: Scrabble makes the list because bad Scrabble is better than good Chutes and Ladders, or a variety of other choices. But EA has dumbed the game down to the point where more competitive Scrabblers will be frustrated at their inability to challenge and be challenged, and it suggests words to make you smarter than you are. If you don’t know that Xi is a Greek letter and Xu is a currency, Scrabble has no business telling you. That said, if you’re not a purist, it works great and looks like the real thing

Shredder Chess, Shredderchess.com; .99. If you’re a casual fan of the game, get one of the many free apps available. Shredderchess is for serious chess buffs. It offers a variety of pleasing board/playing piece graphics, and more importantly has the strongest chess algorithm on the app market. But don’t be scared; it scales back to any playing strength. It tracks your rating and allows you to set the engine appropriately, provides for coaching options, and includes virtually endless chess puzzles to solve. Worth the price whether you’re serious about chess or about learning chess.

The Game of Life, Electronic Arts; .99. EA has updated life for the iPhone, tweaking it to play faster and adding a lot of 3-D perspective in the movement. What the heck, it’s a video game now, right? But just like the original, you and your friends or family will be amused and entertained by this classic until it kills your battery (the usual way a “Life” session ends.)

Whether you played the original board games during your “wonder years,” or are just discovering the naked aggression of Risk or the cold heartless capitalism of Monopoly, these apps give you a way to play them at a safe distance from family members or friends-a feature that may have come in handy for some families the first time through.

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Sympathy Words: A Few Ideas For Comforting Others

Nearly everybody has, at some time or another, experienced the loss of a loved one. Many have also been in the position to comfort a friend at the loss of someone dear to them. In either case, sympathy words are exchanged. The perennial problem is, of course, that in times of grief, it may be difficult to find the right words. It may in fact be difficult to physically say them at all. However, it’s important to express your sympathy to your friend or loved one, and you can find examples of sympathy words at ObituariesHelp.org

What Words of Sympathy to Say

Choosing your words when you are called on to comfort someone in grief is more complicated than just trying to make them feel better. You want them to know that you can empathize with their pain. The difficult part in all of that is knowing that they will have heard sympathy words from perhaps a hundred other people as well, so what can you say that will truly give them peace and closure? Look to samples of sympathy words online for inspiration. An excellent website that has words of sympathy samples in cards, letters, sayings and quotes is at ObituariesHelp.org

Here is something to think about: If you had just lost one of your parents or a sibling, what would you find comforting? How well you know someone is a good litmus test of what you should say and how you should say it. When finding sympathy words, always remember to whom you are speaking. If that person is a very private individual, he or she may prefer to be left alone for the most part. In that case, knowing when the appropriate time to approach is essential to successfully providing comforting sympathy words to the grieving person.

A Short List of Sympathy Words

The following is a short list of sympathy words you can say to someone to bring him or her comfort. You can find a complete list of sympathy words for dozens of different situations at www.ObituariesHelp.org.

You are always in my prayers He/She would be very happy to know that you loved him/her so much Always remember that you have friends and we are here for you, so if there is anything you need, please don’t hesitate to ask. You can find peace in the good memories that you have I know this is hard, but you can make it through

These are just a few things that people have found to be helpful over the years. They are effective mainly because the speaker empathizes with the bereaved. That is the main thing, and it cannot be overstated. Your sympathy words should show that you empathize with the kind of pain they are experiencing, and that you can help them through it.

Sympathy Phrases to Avoid

Saying “I know how you feel” to someone who has lost a loved one is not the best way to show your sympathy. Words like that can sometimes hurt more than they help because no one can truly know what another person is feeling about anything, especially the death of someone dear. ObituariesHelp.org also has lists of Phrases to Avoid for sympathy sayings or words of sympathy.

Also, avoid being at all insincere. Again, remember that this person will most likely have heard sympathy words from many other people over a few days, so the last thing they want to hear is condolences that are not heartfelt. Don’t offer your help if you can’t or won’t actually help.

Actions Speak Louder than Words

Sometimes, offering sympathy words can involve no words at all. Making a meal for someone when you know they don’t feel like cooking for themselves can be a great help. Simply offering a hug is often a very comforting gesture. Day to day tasks may be hard for the bereaved to complete. Doing their dishes, mowing the lawn, taking the kids to school or other activities are all ways to show you care and are simple sympathy gestures that mean so much.

The grieving process is different for everybody, but the one immutable truth behind everybody’s experience is that the right words or gestures can go a long way towards easing the pain of this difficult transition in their lives.

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Does anyone know how to get rid of open games on Words With Friends? I now have four games that the other person hasn’t moved for over 3 weeks and I want to delete them. Any ideas?

Best answer:

Answer by Kevin Diem
Delete the app!

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