Do you or have you ever cheated at board games or at any games in general?

By the sounds of things you NEED to cheat once in a while lilaclady! In my opinion, in most cases it is all just good natured fun if not taken too seriously and it can be especially amusing if everybody ends up doing it at the same time! lol. Thanks for responding.

As a child I was an accomplished Scrabble tile cheater myself alok. lol. Especially when it got to the end parts of the game and I really needed to offload a Q or a Z or something! It was never a serious action on my part though and nine times out of ten people knew it was happening so I don't have any negative conscience eating away at me about it. Thanks for the response.

Oh, so there's a specific percentage for this now mimpi? I can relate to the fighting part for sure and especially when you are playing with a group of kids! lol. I don't cheat in serious games either but when it's family or close friends and all in fun then anything goes. And as for Sudoku, (Funny that you mentioned Sudoku as I am about to start a discussion which has something to do with this!) there are some magazines etc that have the answers at the back so on the odd occasion when I get really stumped I have to admit that I have taken the occasional peek. Thanks for the response.

Oh you do that! I just remembered when my affair with Sudoku had just started I did cheat by having a peek into the solved one. But I do not do it anymore. It feels very dissatisfying after the game is over. The WIN gives me a NOT WIN kind of feeling and rather than getting my brain nerves untangled and losing some virtual calories. And BTW, that 62 is a well researched stuff. You better not tease me!


Waiting for your next discussion...

I have done it sometimes mimpi but generally I don;t. It is only when I start to get really frustrated that I will resort to this and I am not a regular Soduko player anyways. These days, the only time I seem to play it is when I am on a flight or something. And of course I would NEVER disrespect your research results with the outcome of 62% either! lol. I am sure that it is only a matter of time before I see your references on wikipedia so this should shut up any disbelievers.

I do not do that anymore. I play diabolical ones nowadays, so I just can't afford to.
And thanks for giving me the wikipedia credit. It reliability is questionable at times though. But that's the thought for a new discussion altogether.

Well off you go..... I will keep my out for a "diabolical" themed discussion topic then shall I?

Oh you are most welcome.... . I am waiting for the 'diabolical' one!

Another "D" word! What IS this madness??

The 'D Festival Madness'.

Diwali?

Most desirable...

Definitely!

Dure (read S instead of D)

I gave you ALL those D words and you are resorting to first letter replacements now mimpi? For shame!

I agree that it can be a tremendous amount of fun, even when people sometimes end up getting upset! You know you have really hit a nerve when someone suddenly throws the cards or flips the board or something. As long as the cheating is good natured and not in serious competitions then I have no issues with it really. Thanks for the response rkrish.

Ah, good save there halfway through Sandhya! I am sure we have all done this at one time or another and mostly in fun with no real ill intentions; so pleading the fifth amendment ain't gonna cut it! lol. Thanks for the response.

lol...I was trying to be honest.
And I think I got confused between re-'fr'ame and re-'ph'rase in the response!
Sometimes my mind travels faster than I can type...or is it the other way?
Oh..there I go...being confused again!

hmmm...how come we missed this comment?Very unlike James to do that!

I have taken part in "new rules" phases many a time. It usually comes up when everyone gets a bit bored with things so try to spice the game up a little! Nine times out of ten though, the game ends in an argument. lol. And I have to admit that I not been a board thrower as such but a tipper on many an occasion. Card thrower, yes! Kicking a ball or flinging a frisbee over a fence purposely, yes. Switching off the TV in the middle of a video game because the person is beating my score, yes! There were times in my youth that I was one of the WORST losers imagineable so I can attest to all of these things and more. Losing sucked right? lol.

Yeah, losing definitely sucks when you have winning as the objective. Having kids almost broke me of that. I could hardly get p!ssed off if my kid was winning instead of me! And they always do now. I almost regret those years that I deliberately let them win!!!

The key word here is "almost" zigzagbuddha! lol.

I haven't done this in Scrabble but I've done this during a Sequence game (a few times). Oops!

I love-hate that Scrabble moment when you're waiting your turn to get a really good score.

I am not aware of this game actually? But in regards to Scrabble it's interesting how such a straightforward game can conjure up such a wide range of emotions in people! I have had some regrettable Scrabble incidents myself due to frustration etc. WE have zigzagbuddha even throwing the entire board across a room too!

I haven't thrown a Scrabble board just yet because I usually win it. But I see the frustration and the tantrums in myself with other games. Especially Mario Kart! I hate hate hate losing to Boyfriend at Mario Kart. When I lose, Boyfriend loses in real life. Lol!

Yeah, almost. I still don't mind losing to either of my kids, but other than that I better be winning or others start complaining about my attitude... they do not know how close they bring themselves to my edge when they do that.

I have been playing Scrabble on my computer with 'Professor Maven'. I should actually be playing at the 'expert' level, but I get really annoyed when I have to hear the musical explosion every few minutes as Maven gets yet another 96 points or something from using all his tiles, so I just stick to the 'advanced' level, where I win every game... and if for some reason I'm not - like because I passed 4 turns in a row trying to get an 's' or something so I can use all my tiles but I never get it, I just start a new game. That's my version of anger management I guess, hehehe.

You are so funny SaintAnne!!! I love you lots!

Thank you, ziggy! I feel the love and hope you feel it too!!! I am not familiar with this Professor Maven but I'm a bit more different than you in internet games because I am obsessed with finishing something, even if it means I have to spend the whole day doing it and my fingers are already hurting.

Yeah, I used to be like that too, I still am in many ways, but I have discovered the joys of dropping something that is not making me feel good!

God help us it's a LOVE fest!

Is that why you have not dropped me, I make you feel good. There is nothing like a early morning drop to make one feel good.

Oh Swampy, how have I gotten by for so long without your toilet humor?? Actually I think I could get by without it for a little longer, no offense intended. I way prefer to picture you stoned and cynical, with a deadly sharp wit, than sitting on the toilet grunting away with your pants down around your ankles.

Hello James... apparently you haven't enjoyed the O'Jays calling for

"People of the world, join in, start a love train..."

Choo choo!!!

I will just stand on the platform for now I think!

OK, so now we've got Clem the morning pooper and James the party pooper, hahahaha!

And thanks a lot Ms Saintly, now I am going to be singing 'Love Train' all friggin' day!!!

PS: Professor Maven is the computer player in a Scrabble game I have installed on my computer.

People of the world, join in, join the love train...

Hahahahaha! I never even cared for that song Ms Saintly, but I do know that you're singing the wrong words! It goes 'People all over the world, join hands, start a love train, love train'.... sorry, just the Virgo editor in me.

OMG! I can hardly believe I managed to snag a couple more BRs from you! What is so funny about that to me is that I have never got a BR from you for any of my 'waxing poetic' responses... only for the ones with gross 'shock value' hahahahahahaha!

Hahahaha. How could I not reward someone for throwing a game board across a room? And don't go gettin' all nice and thankful on me zig as it confuses the hell out of me!

Ummmm, James, just because I do not go in for formalities and 'proper etiquette' does not mean that I do not enjoy giving and receiving appreciation.

Oh so now you're hittin' me up with logic! How's things anyways? Jogging around frozen rivers are we? Did you end up burning that couch? What is the average daily rainfall in the Amazon Basin? Personally I am freezing my butt off here in Cairo (Well ay night anyway) and it is surely nowhere near as cold as it is where you are. I can't stand cooler weather.

Nah, I haven't been jogging for a couple of weeks, I have just been walking along frozen rivers.

No, we did not burn that couch, it got taken to the dump, but there is another one out there to take it's place.

I don't have a clue what the average daily rainfall is in the Amazon Basin, but guaranteed I would LOVE it! I like a lot of rain... it keeps things nice and green.

Yeah, cold weather is not my idea of heaven on earth but I'm working on it.

Hang on.... So you dumped the old couch and now there is another one there to take it's place? You must have damn good soil there to be able to grow couches like this zig! Woe is me as I have never even SEEN a frozen river before! Not even snow. The whole concept fascinates me and I hope that one day I will experience it all. I will probably end up wearing about 15 warm outfits at once when I do though.

Hehehe, yep, we grow desks out there too!

Well, the whole river doesn't freeze since it's flowing, just huge sections of it like icebergs, and it's only the surface, you can see the water flowing under the ice.

I do not care for cold weather myself. I do not even take my flannel pjs off in the morning, I just put my clothes on top of them, sometimes 2 layers of clothes on top of them. It is 28 degrees here right now, which, as you probably know, is below freezing. I have 2 layers of clothes on, a neckscarf and a wool cap, plus the heater is running right at my feet. And I am still shivering... I will have to go put another layer on.

Ouch! Now that's the type of cold that when I think about it, has me panicking like you wouldn't believe! I just can't imagine being THAT cold. I would resemble a ball of clothes I reckon, with a pair of feet peeking out the bottom. Kind of like that girl in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" that ate that grape gum that she shouldn't have and swelled up to resemble a big round grape! I am sure it is not as bad as I am making out either, I am just a wuss I guess when it comes to being cold.

Well, in my opinion it IS as bad as you are making out! I do not like extreme temperatures... too hot or too cold and I sit around like a big ball of uselessness, unable to do anything but suffer.

There is a guy here in my town that had an accident which damaged the part of his brain that senses cold (maybe hot too, I'm not sure), and I have never seen him in a shirt. 3 feet of snow and ice covering everything and still falling out of the sky besides and he's walking around with no shirt on! It gives me frostbite just to look at him!

That's insane! I wonder if he has ever suffered any bad effects because of this? I have heard examples of people that have no sensitivity to hot and cold before (and pain in general actually) and some of the accidents they have are really bad. Things like placing their hand on a hot plate and not knowing, scalding their skin with boiling water and stuff like that. I am sure it is a pretty rare affliction though. From memory it was something to do with the brain sensors that receive notification of pain or something being blocked?

I don't know if he has or not... he always looks pretty healthy. When I first saw him years ago, out there in the ice and snow and sub-zero temperatures with no shirt on, I thought he was insanely macho! It wasn't until recently that I found out it was because of brain damage from his accident. Although he must be some kind of macho or his wife would have him wearing a shirt at least!

I'm pretty macho myself I guess because I sleep with my bedroom window wide open with the icy cold wind whipping in. I am just a fresh air fanatic. Of course I have an electric blanket, and a bunch of quilts piled on top of that that are so heavy I can hardly turn over at night. The other day I woke up and the glass of water sitting on my nightstand had turned to a solid block of ice!

Thanks to these comments I now have the song "Macho Man" by The Village people running through my head! Waking up with a glass of water frozen beside you is just as insane as the guy with no shirt zig! Man it must have been cold. I like fresh air too, but that sounds too committed if you ask me!

Yeah, I expect it does, but I am a little bit of an extremist I guess.

Hey James, when you told me about Tasmania and I was looking at those gardens where the guy had carved fairies and stuff what was the name of that place do you know? My son and I have been up all night looking at property in Tasmania and I wanted to show him those photos. I cannot believe I didn't bookmark that page!

Ok, nevermind I finally found it myself! Good thing too, since you friggin ignored me! It is not in Tasmania, it is near Melbourne, Bruno's Art and Sculpture Garden.

I didn't ignore ya zig, I had to rush out the door and was across town at meetings all day. I'm glad you found it again! So Tassie is back on the cards now is it? Hmmmm. I don't think your glass of water will freeze there, but they do have a area there that is supposed to have the cleanest air in the world! There is a mylot member called hiccup and he has just come back from a trip to Tasmania. Check out his profile and you will see some discussions and photo's regarding it.

Tasmania was never really out of the running, I just did not see how it would be possible. Now that I realize anything is possible - that achieving any goal is just a matter of aligning yourself with the objective, then I feel more confident in my ability to allow it to happen.

Hmmm, I wonder how I would find this guy hiccup? Is he on your friend's list?

All you have to do zig, is type his user name after the mylot web address so www.mylot.com/username and it will go straight to their profile!

Tag-Team cheating is by far the best of the lot! lol. Secret code words, the sly slipping of tiles, money and cards under the table..... It is definitely the most fun when everyone's doing it too. Cheating in games that aren't overly serious in the first place is no big deal but it takes a true master to escape being caught! Thanks for the response Bo.

Ehhh, I never take those kinds of games seriously. Can't have too much fun if you take it seriously. We play a dice game called Wash Out. Every time we play it, there is one person who gets a little pissy after the first round and gets up and leaves the game. If you know you don't want to play, don't sit down at the table, right?

But it's even MORE fun if you manage to make someone pissy Bo! There should be a points system actually for how pissy we manage to get 'em. This could be a game in itself! Hmmmm.

Hmmmm, only if I am in a wicked mood. Otherwise it spoils the whole game.

Nobody ever wants to play with me because I can't take it all serious enough. I play to PLAY! Helloooo, that's why they call it PLAYing! We have a couple we play Sequence with. My man and the lady are very serious, her husband and I are big goofs, so what do they do, team he and I together and we still beat their socks off. We don't even know what we are doing half the time, but we have more fun and they have the heartburn! hee hee. We'll even be losing cards and stuff, no prob.

No one wants to play Putt Putt with me either. I just simply don't care who's golfball I hit. What's the big deal, you ain't getting no prize for finishing first or nothing.

I know, that is how I feel. Who cares, right?

I guess though that some of us are just born with competitive streaks and can lose site of the fun aspect from time to time. When it comes down to it, it doesn't really matter at all who wins at something like putt-putt but of course there will always be the sore loser or the headstrong competitor mentality in someone!

This is true. And, it doesn't matter how many times you change the people playing the game, there is always at least one in the bunch.

You've agreed with me twice already today Bo..... Are you OK??

Sure, I am alright................ *wicked chuckle erupts from throat*

Just checkin'...... James glances around the room nervously as he tiptoes backwards towards the door

Watches James back out the door. Smiling, knowing he wants to turn and run full steam.

You're gonna need binoculars to see me now I tell ya. I'm LONG gone.....

Oh, that's alright. I will find you.

So you cheat when you are on your own cream97? Why not! At least you always win! lol. Thanks for the response.

Yes, I always seem to win! That is the most fun part about it!! I call the shots!

It's not mean if it is not done with bad intentions. There is a big difference between a fun and serious game and if its a game being played for fun then anything goes I reckon! It IS interesting though that you do with friends but not with the family! I think for most people it would probably be with the family mostly because it is such a relaxed environment. Thanks for the response.

So this is the ultimate balance of darkness and light then vidasandi! Better to cheat at a fun game than for real! Thanks for the response.