Ryan McFarland

RSVP word game by Scrabble

Originally uploaded by zieak

I have a habit of buying board games. I don’t have a collection of Monopoly varieties or Trivial Pursuit editions but I do have a lot of obscure games. Many of them i’ve never heard of until buying them.

This is the Scrabble brand RSVP three dimensional crosword game. The box has copyrights from 1966 and 1970.

Players sit on either side of the board and start with one letter in the center. Player 1 picks any letter from the pool and plays it. If it is a complete word then they score the word using the points on the letter die (same value as Scrabble leters). Player 2 does the same on their side of the board. In the photo I had player one add X to the A in the center making AX. Player 2’s side then has XA to work with. Defensive playing could be really important.

We should probably play some of these games I find.

You’re doing it wrong

Originally uploaded by zieak

Chutes and Ladders game board, chess pawn and domino as seen at the Alaskan Bar in Juneau, Alaska.

I never wanted an arcade game more - check out Zeke’s Peak.

This has got to be the best bubblewrap simulation i have ever seen. The sounds lack a little though. Nice to have “manic mode” too. (Thanks dad!)