Week 17 Game

So somehow my post about a game that Jadae and I played while in Cincinnati got deleted! So here is a brief overview of what we played for week 17.

My brothers introduced us to this game. It is made my Steel Crates and is called, "Keep talking and nobody explodes". It costs $15 and only one person has to download it.

The expert downloads a manual from online that tells him how to deuse the device. The Defuser verbally tells the expert what the device looks like. I suggest that the expert gets familiar with the manual as the defuser only has 5 minutes to disarm it. Each device has several components, once one section of it is successfully defused there is a little light that will turn green.  You do have a few strikes, so if you accidentally cut the wrong wire it is okay! Some of the components are buttons being hit in a certain order, a certain wire being cut, hitting a button at the exact right time, etc. 

We played numerous times taking turns being the deuser and the expert. A few times we exploded but we had a lot of fun!

52 Date Nights in 52 Weeks

Getting out of a rut- The post that explains why I started this journey

1.   Week One- (movie) The Bucket List

2.   Week Two- (game) Post Cards from North America
3.   Week Three- Art Night!
4.   Week four- Deal or No Deal

5.   Week 5- Game Night (Chrononauts)
6.   Week 6- Wii Game (Super Mario Maker)
7.   Week 7- (movie) Tourist
8.   Cruise!
9.   Week 9- (Game) Star Fluxx
10  .Week 10- (movie) Nim's Island
11.  Week 11 (game) Forbidden Desert
12. Week 12 (art night) Picasso Playdoh
13. Week 13- Puzzle and Pillow Talk Conversations
14,  Week 14 - (game) Scattergories Categories
15, Week 15- (movie) Private Ryan
16. Week 16- Wii Game Night

Week 16- Wii Night

We really like Super Mario Marker. So this month for the Wii Game Night we played it again. We both do not often have much time to kill on video games. I still scream. Jadae is still better than I am at the games. It is fun to not know what the level looks like that we will be playing next. Growing up you begin to memorize the levels and all the secrets. With this game each level is new and a surprise. Some levels have secrets, others do not.



52 Date Nights in 52 Weeks

Getting out of a rut- The post that explains why I started this journey

1.   Week One- (movie) The Bucket List

2.   Week Two- (game) Post Cards from North America
3.   Week Three- Art Night!
4.   Week four- Deal or No Deal

5.   Week 5- Game Night (Chrononauts)
6.   Week 6- Wii Game (Super Mario Maker)
7.   Week 7- (movie) Tourist
8.   Cruise!
9.   Week 9- (Game) Star Fluxx
10  .Week 10- (movie) Nim's Island
11.  Week 11 (game) Forbidden Desert
12. Week 12 (art night) Picasso Playdoh
13. Week 13- Puzzle and Pillow Talk Conversations
14,  Week 14 - (game) Scattergories Categories
15, Week 15- (movie) Private Ryan

52 Weeks- Week 5 - Chrononauts

Time travel is very interesting. It has always intrigued people. Sometimes people wish that they go back in history and have a redo. Other times people wish they could speed up the clock; such as when a child is going through a difficult stage, you are very pregnant and just want to have that baby. Other times people want to either go back into history and see what it was like to live back then or peek into the future to see what might happen

But with time travel there comes consequences. In Back to the Future II, Marty and Doc were very careful not to mess up what had already 'happened' in the future because a time paradox could happen.

Doc: "I foresee two possibilities. One, seeing herself thirty years in the future would put Jennifer into shock and she'd simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox. The results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe!... Granted, that's the worst-case scenario. The destruction however might be limited merely to our own galaxy."

Marty: "Well that's a relief!"

— Doc and Marty were discussing the ramifications of Jennifer running into herself.

Chrononauts is a game that allows you to make paradoxes left and right without real-life consequences.

It took as a little while to learn the directions of the game but once we understood them the games kept rolling. We ended up playing 5 games. Jadae won 3 and I only 2. I am looking forward to see how the dynamics change when another player is added. There is also an option to play solo.

(Disclaimer- This post does contain an affliate link, meaning if you purchase a game I will receive a small portion of the sell at no extra charge for you)

52 Date Nights in 52 Weeks
Getting out of a rut- The post that explains why I started this journey

1. Week One- (movie) The Bucket List

2. Week Two- (game) Post Cards from North America
3. Week Three- Art Night!
4. Week four- Deal or No Deal

52 Date Nights- Week 2 Game Night!

We had originally decided on having our date nights on Mondays after I get out of dance practice. But this week Jadae was awesome and took all 3 boys on our monthly big grocery shopping trip alone while I was at dance. By the time he got home (he went on several other errands also) he was exhausted. It didn't help that his hemoglobin was low (9) at his last iron infusion 2 weeks ago.

This week I had planned on a game night. So Jadae unwrapped his first present from the black tub. He opened Post Cards from North America (I don't know what you do with game titles, do they get capitalized? underlined? quotes?), which is a game that I picked up at the local thrift store for $2! I don't believe that I had heard of this game before but decided for $2 it was worth trying it out.

Bill Rolette invented this game and used post cards from his own travels! The goal of the game is to complete 10 postcards. You complete a post card by traveling there either across the board or flying to that destination. It is a great game to either learn or refresh your memory of America geography and to see the famous America Sites.

We enjoyed this game and to just have that one-on-one time together free from electronics, kids, and other distractions.

Here is our finished art work!

52 Date Nights in 52 Weeks
Getting out of a rut- The post that explains why I started this journey

1. Week One- (movie) The Bucket List