When I googled croquet for pics, this came up:
Awesome, huh?
Anyways, I played croquet on Saturday night with Melissa, Dan, Lionel and Amy. I was so bad the first game (totally lost--most definitely last place), Melissa cheated for me and threw my ball so that I could catch up to them. =D
During the second game, I totally owned it. I made it through practically the first half of the game (stick to stick) in one turn. Yeah. That's right. My aim was awesome.
And then I lost it, and came in 4th place (out of 5th). That's right. I beat you Dan!!
And then, Lionel introduced us to the game Speed Scrabble.
I'm not sure "Zed" is a word, but I tried it once and everyone vetoed it. Dang it. Anyways, I am now converted. I will always love a slow, original game of Scrabble, but speedy is the way to go.Instructions in 11 Steps:
1.There are no teams in this form of Scrabble; each person is on his or her own team. The best way to play this game is with 3 – 7 people.
2. Each person begins with seven Scrabble tiles placed letter-side down in front of them.
3. Place the remainder of the Scrabble tiles in the center of the round table, letter side down.
4. Clear an area in front of each player on the table in front of them (be sure to clear enough room to complete your puzzle – this will be where your puzzle is formed).
5. To begin the game, one player will say “On your mark, Get set, Go,” at which time all of the players will flip their seven pieces over and begin to form a word with the letters they have.
6. Once one word is created, you may begin to play off of that word, as if using a scrabble board (follow the rules of Scrabble pertaining to horizontal and vertical word arrangements).
7. Don’t forget that the point of this game is to connect your letters to make words in the timeliest manner possible.
8. Once someone has used all of their letters they will shout “GO!” and everyone must draw one tile from the center pile of upside-down game pieces.
9. Every player must draw one tile, and they may not switch the tiles that they picked for a different ones. They must draw new pieces even if they have not used their own pieces yet (this is what makes players get backed up and frantic). They cannot trade tiles with other players!
10. The game proceeds in this manner until the pieces in the center of the table are gone or until there are not enough left for everyone to draw from.
11. At this time, when the first person has used up all of their game pieces and there are no more to draw, the game is over.
2. Each person begins with seven Scrabble tiles placed letter-side down in front of them.
3. Place the remainder of the Scrabble tiles in the center of the round table, letter side down.
4. Clear an area in front of each player on the table in front of them (be sure to clear enough room to complete your puzzle – this will be where your puzzle is formed).
5. To begin the game, one player will say “On your mark, Get set, Go,” at which time all of the players will flip their seven pieces over and begin to form a word with the letters they have.
6. Once one word is created, you may begin to play off of that word, as if using a scrabble board (follow the rules of Scrabble pertaining to horizontal and vertical word arrangements).
7. Don’t forget that the point of this game is to connect your letters to make words in the timeliest manner possible.
8. Once someone has used all of their letters they will shout “GO!” and everyone must draw one tile from the center pile of upside-down game pieces.
9. Every player must draw one tile, and they may not switch the tiles that they picked for a different ones. They must draw new pieces even if they have not used their own pieces yet (this is what makes players get backed up and frantic). They cannot trade tiles with other players!
10. The game proceeds in this manner until the pieces in the center of the table are gone or until there are not enough left for everyone to draw from.
11. At this time, when the first person has used up all of their game pieces and there are no more to draw, the game is over.
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