Fun and Games

Expats are famous for their drinking and hard partying, so we must be an anomoly--on our last weekend, as I mentioned, we went to a boardgame cafe. It had mostly English games, lucky for us, and we stuck two games that were both easy and fun.

First, we played Tumbling Monkeys. As you can see in the picture below, you dump little plastic monkeys down the middle of a big plastic palm tree and their curly tails get stuck on different colored sticks. You roll the die and whatever color comes up is the color of stick you have to pull, ideally without any monkeys tumbling out the bottom of the palm tree. The goal is to end up with as few monkeys as possible. It may be a kid's game, but we were having so much fun, the Koreans at the table next to us decided to try it out, too.


Not just child's play--it takes a great deal of skill and concentration not to bring down any monkeys!


The other game we played was called Looping Louie. It also looks like a children's game, and it seems like it would be really boring. Each person has four little blue coins, and Louie is the pilot of the red plane in the middle who swings around knocking the coins off. You have to try to keep him from hitting your coins and try to hit the other players' coins by launching him off your launching pad thingy. To our surprise, this game is super addictive.


Looping Louie also takes more skill than you think. That Louie is sneaky!


We were at the cafe for almost three hours and it only cost us $4 each. How great is that? Too bad we waited until our last weekend to finally go. If there's a boardgame cafe in your neighborhood, I'd highly recommend it--they'll have all kinds of games that you've never even heard of, and it's a nice break from the usual hanging out at bars, etc.