Monday, February 8, 2010

Contact Uno

At the Keller house we are huge gamers. That doesn’t mean quite what you think. We are nerdy Luddite gamers. So it doesn’t involve computers. We play games: board games and card games. Everything from Settlers of Catan to Power Grid to Bang to Louis XIV to Killer Bunnies. Yes, Killer Bunnies is a real game. The cards include “cyber bunny,” “nuclear warhead,” “miniature black hole,” and “fluorine gas.” Yes, the game is very popular with teenage boys.

But we have normal games too, like Uno. However, we don’t play by the regular rules, which are too tedious for words. We play a version called “Speed Uno” that was invented by a friend of ours. As you can imagine “Speed Uno” is much faster (duh) and players interrupt each other’s play all the time. However, even Speed Uno was still a bit boring. So we came up with a couple more rules to ensure only barely managed chaos. Players are moving so fast that some bumping of arms and shoving of shoulders occurs. We call it “Contact Uno.” You’re welcome to join us, but you might want to bring your fencing masks and some shoulder pads—that way you can get your cards down before Luke wins by playing four cards in a row without even having time to yell “Uno!”

7 comments:

  1. Yeah, the McPhersons changes Scrabble to Speed Scrabble, although it seems that Contact Uno is a little more violent...

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  2. Long live the Killer Bunnies!!

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  3. I have to say, the best gaming we did with you guys was with Zeus on the Loose. We had to Use Jane Austen instead of Zeus because Jez ate Zeus...

    Grace Duke

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  4. That's right, Jezebel desecrated Zeus; that was hilarious.

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  5. Ah.. Zues on the Loose is also fun.

    Hmm... Who would win? A Killer Bunny... Or Zues?

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  6. I think I played a version of Contact Uno one time with my cousins...it involved about 3-4 decks of Uno cards, slapping the stack of cards at some point, and a whole lot of yelling and physical contact. :)
    And I think that Killer Bunnies needs to make an appearance some Sunday night.

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  7. We love board/card games, too. In fact, my first grader has just asked for one! It will probably be War with a dinosaur deck.

    Thanks for stopping by.

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