Friday, December 23, 2011

The Game of Life

So today we had my siblings over. We played a little Mario Kart on the Wii and Tommy dominated at that. Then we ate some delicious pizza from Papa Murphy's. After that we pulled out our awesome version of The Game of LIFE (we have it for the Wii as well which is fun) that is like the original version of the game. Dave was the banker for the game (the game does allow 6 people to play though) and we were off. Jessy skipped right into the real world while Tommy and I both became doctors (the original one has you land on a specific career space rather than picking a card/salary, while Kiernan went to college, studied for finals and only ended up with a University Degree making only 2k more than Jessy. About a quarter of the way through poor Kiernan had to go back to the beginning, but luckily he ended up as a dr this time, but he was way behind everyone else for the rest of the game. The rest of the game went like this:
Gabrielle - invests a lot of money into her company, has a lot of children/adopts too, buying a helicopter
Tommy - lands on very handy random spaces like getting an inheritance, finding treasure, got sued a bunch but still had a ton of money (2 million or more), buying a helicopter
Kiernan - way behind everyone else, two children, enjoyed risking money on bets, needing to get two sets of false teeth (yep he landed on both spaces saying this), buying a yacht
Jessy - wanting to land on children spaces but never does, having a house burn down and then buying a house (yes in that order (this is the vintage version so you don't get a house card)), buying a yacht and then crashing that yacht into an ice burg but gains money from the crash by selling ice cubes (how this works no one knows), and then (after Tommy and I are both at millionaire estates (Kiernan still way behind) and Tommy has a ton of money) risking all her money and spinning the wheel to either loose everything or become a millionaire tycoon (meaning she wins the game) wins the game
Needless to say Tommy was not impressed...
It was fun having them all over!





She's the winner
rubbing it in