Session Report: Go Battleship

This game is played like Go Fish. It can be considered a variation.

This game uses a standard 52 card deck. It is for 3 or more players. All cards are passed out.

The objective of the game is to knock all the "ships" from your opponent. The ships are the cards in their hand. People takes turn in this game. The person picks someone and guesses a card with suite that they think that opponent has. If the player gets it right, that opponent places the discards the card by placing it face down and the player gets another turn. If the player gets it wrong, then the person clockwise goes next. This cycle goes on until there are only two people left.

When there are only two people left, the game goes to showdown. The two players pick one card in their hand and discards the rest. Each player then takes turn guessing at what card the opponent has just like in regular play. Whoever gets it right wins the game.

The game's added rules make this game far more fast paced than Go Fish, which makes it more exciting.

The game Apples to Apples is a card game that uses nouns and adjectives. The nouns are on the red cards and the adjectives are on the green cards. The red cards contain various words which include common items, historical figures, and popular culture. Because it uses popular culture, the game has to be updated every so often.

Each player gets seven red cards and one person is the judge. The judge flips the green card. Each player excluding the judge places a card that best fits the adjective and draws a red card. After everyone is done, the judge takes all the cards and picks out the best choice to his/her opinion. The owner of the best card takes the green card. The whole process repeats itself with another person being the judge, either clockwise or counter-clockwise. The first person who has enough green cards wins. The amount of green cards needed is based on how many players there are. For example, the amount that I was playing with only needed 3 green cards to win since there were 9 of us.

The time it took for someone to win was short. The game ended in about 10 minutes. Someone was able to rack up 3 green cards while most did not even have 1 yet. This game felt like it should take longer. I noticed that the person who took the green card usually put down something very witty or funny with funny winning more. One example is when we decided to use a game play variation where 2 green cards are placed and a red card has to match both. The green cards were “One-of-a-kind” and “Average.” The winning card ended up being, “Your Ex.”

Games and Me

I play games. Which types? I play mainly video games and sometimes table-top games, which include card and board games. Why play games? I play games mainly for the reason it was created for, to have fun. Games are meant to be fun, but sometimes I play them for other reasons. One reason is to relax. Different games have different ways to help relax the mind. Puzzle games relaxes the mind by letting the player engage in something slow-paced so that they only have to use their minds to win. Action games relaxes the mind by letting the player get rid of their stress. The action games that do this best are usually those that allow people to go head to head with others online. Pretty much, the players online become the stress ball for the one trying to get rid of stress. After going to class and facing something like a test or presentation, I usually go on Team Fortress 2 and just try to ease my mind. Usually I use a class that allows me to rack up kills or assists fast. For some reason, dominating others online just makes me feel better. Overall, I just play games to have fun. Even if it is just to relieve stress, I am still having fun.