Message Board Games For Online Gamers
Avid board game players can go online and tap into a number of helpful resources to improve their playing skills, learn about classic board games news and chat with others about their boardgame hobby. Message boards can become a marketplace for finding new games or pieces as well. Whether your love is chess, checkers and backgammon or Upwords, Cranium and Scattergories, you will learn a lot and enjoy your time spent on these addictive sites.
The Monopoly board game has a plethora of message boards to choose from. Yahoo Games allows players to engage in open discussions and message board topics related to Monopoly, as well as play board games online at www.dir.groups.yahoo.com. Look for “Yahoo! Groups Monopoly,” “Yahoo! Message Boards Monopoly,” “Monopoly UK,” “Monopoly Playhouse Club” or “Y! Monopoly Club.” At www.search.msn.com, you can look under “BrokenDoll Monopoly” or “MSN Groups Monopoly.” There are also forums under Google Groups (www.groups.google.com).
Checkers is another strategy board game that attracts large audiences to online boards. Since there are so many different possible algorithms and game plays, people are always looking to practice their skills with online board games or by reading up on strategies and theories in the forums. Yahoo Games has a number of checkers-related groups at www.dir.groups.com: Yahoo Message Boards – Checkers, Yahoo Groups – Chinese Checkers, Yahoo Groups – Draughts, the Y Checkers Club, the Turkish Draughts Drama Club and the Elite Checkers Club. MSN (www.search.msn.com) and Google Groups (www.groups.google.com) are other places to find checkers-related groups created by other avid gamers.
Sometimes people even play games on message boards. This can be a great way of getting to know others and having a bit of fun. When posting a game suggestion, title your post using the word “game” — like “Finish the Sentence Game” or “Rhyme Time Game.” Then, in the post, write clear directions and post an example to get people started. You’ll be surprised at how quickly people reply! In the “Finish the Sentence Game,” you’ll post 3-4 words starting a sentence and the next person will finish it. The “Word Chain Game” simply posts one word and everyone replies with the first subsequent word that comes to mind. You can also play “Message Board Go Fish,” where a person will ask a yes-or-no question and if the next person says yes, then he or she asks a new question. If the answer is no, he or she says “go fish.” There are also many ABC games for movies, animals, what’s in your pantry, musicians and more. Getting-to-know-you games may include question quizzes.