How to have Fun:

Welcome to a page dedicated to all those fun, mindless, senseless games like Foosball and Frisbee. You know the type. The kind of game you can just mess around with your friends in and have a complete blast despite the fact that you are getting thoroughly thrashed of can't throw a frisbee to save your life.

Foosball

The first (and greatest?) of these games is Foosball. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this term may know it as Table Soccer. The point of the game is to hit the ball into your opponent's goal using small dolls which are arranged on bars so that you can move them from side to side and make them kick.

Fun can be had by all because the game can be played quite well by beginers, and it is easy to cheat by blowing the ball around or actually picking it up off the table.

Foosball can be played by two to eight players, with two or four being the most common. I suggest four for maximum enjoyment. Play two players on a team... one on offense the other on defense... then switch if you are getting bored or want a new "challenge."

By the way... spinning the dolls can be fun, to get more power, but don't do it for too long cause it can become annoying, and detracts from the fun of the game (mindless though it may be)

 

Frisbee

Ahh... frisbee. A real game... the final proof that winter is over, and that it's great to be outside. This is a great passtime....

If you want to get the most fun out of frisbee - practice. It is far more fun to play when you can throw a variety of throws and can catch reasonably reliably (that way you don't end up spending more time chasing after a missed frisbee than actually playing). It order to do this...START SMALL!! Distance throwing can be fun, but be prepared to run particularly if even one person has an accuracy problem.

First, get the basic forehand throw down. Use it a lot. Even if you are working on another throw, always make sure people spend more time playing than running. Once you have other throws relatively accurate you are ready to start spreading out a little. By the time you are up to four strong throws you are ready to play a distance game.

Even when you have mastered distance throwing, a close game can be fun. There are a lot of throws that really cannot get any distance but are very effective when you are close.

Oh, and the quality of the frisbee does make a differnce.

Games:

Besides just throwning the disk around, you might want to play some games which use your new found frisbee talents. Games usually require more people that a casual disk tossing session. Still, if you find yourself swamped with friends and a disk on a nice day, here are some ideas of games you could try.

Ultimate frisbee:

Sort of like a cross between netballand football, but played with a frisbee, this game is played in teams. Each team tries to catch the frisbee in the end zone of the field. Possesion chnges if the frisbee is: caught by an opposing team member, thouches the ground, or goes out of bounds. When you have the frisbee your feet cannot move.

500:

One person is designated the thower, and stands away from the rest of the players. The thrower throws the frisbee towards the crowd. Catch the frisbee and get 100 points. Touching the frisbee but not catching it is negative 50 points per touch -- and the person who catches it gets an extra 50 points per touch. Touching the frisbee without catching it it and then catching it is an additional 50 per touch. First one to 500 wins and get to be the next thrower.

Frisbee Golf:

Each player must have a frisbee for this game. Pick eighteen targets (holes) -- street signs, doors, and lamposts work well. See who can hit the traget in the fewest throws (throwing from where the frisbee lands). Keep tally of the throws, person with lowest total throws wins.

 

Fluxx

OK! OK! So Fluxx isn't a mindless game... but neither are foosball and frisbee really (damn! there goes the page concept). What all of these games have in common is that you don't have to think about them inorder to enjoy them. You don't have to stratagize, don't have to plan, don't even have to pay constant attention.

ICE's card game Fluxx is a very simple game. It has one rule - "draw one card, and then play one card." This rule may change as the game goes on. You get to have fun things like Love and Chocolate, and it may be your hippism that finally wins the game.

In the right mindset you can let chance and whim control the game, and watch the fun. I haven't had this game too long... but one thing I have a hard time remembering is... who has won. I know someone has, but some how it hardly seems important to the game.

So, if you get a chance, pick up a copy - I highly recommend it. It costs about $10 - and no - it's not a collectable card game. $10 and you own a copy every card ever printed. Well, what are you waiting for... go get it!

 

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