What board games would you combine?

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[As a side note, this is copy and pasted directly from the Facebook note of one of my friends. I'm doing this in lieu of a Friday Five poll.]

This happened a while ago, but I just remembered it, so I'm writing it down.

My friend and I were talking about how today's board games were really dumb compared to the ones we had and how they must be running out of ideas. Suddenly, we both got the same inspiration that must have hit the creators of "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones": why not combine games to make new ones!?! Some terrifying results came to light:

1) Operation-Don't Wake Daddy - the best part is thinking about the graphics on the box. You have the sneaking kids going "shoosh" and holding their fingers to their mouths, but instead of sneaking off for a minute snack, they're pulling out dad's kidney while he's passed out on the couch.

2) Monopocandyland - this game, despite it's name, is developed not so much as a mix between the board game classic and the easiest game ever, but rather as a game so complicated and detailed that actual play is almost impossible to occur. Personally, my favorite part was when we decided give each side of the board a "land" name: Chocotown, Skittleville, Cinnamonburg, and the Ukraine.

3) Limbo Chicken Clue - we have no idea how this game is played, but we know exactly what the box would say: "The chicken is dead! Can you limbo your way through this mystery!?"

4) Shoots and Life - basically Life, but in the ghetto.

5) SORRY and anything - just have kids in the damn commercial say "Sorry!" and smile whenever they do anything. God I hate SORRY.

What board games would you combine? How would they play? What would the advertising look and/or sound like?

Comments

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

(visgoth tipped me off to this post.) Here's one I came up with at TCEP (http://www.barkingmad.org/) last weekend: Munchkin Cthulhu 500.

Mind you, I'm still trying to wrap my head around how one could actually make this combination playable. But I sprained a few brains at TCEP with just the title.

[jeremyarc7.livejournal.com]

Mouse Relations - Diplomacy and Mouse Trap combined. Players plot, scheme, form alliances, betray allies and so forth in their quest to trap and eliminate all other mice on the board.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

That idea is batsh*t insane! ^_^

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

LOL, that's brilliant. The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry!

[odclay.livejournal.com]

Thurn and Taxis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurn_and_Taxis_%28board_game%29) Risk: Compete against other players for global domination while attempting to set up and maintain mail routes inside your own conquered territories. The postal service takes over the world!

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I've never heard of Thurn and Taxis before. I did want to see Risky Life, where you balance conquering the world with family life, but that idea seemed kind of boring in the end.

[odclay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, only heard about it a few weeks ago. Read something somewhere about Thurn and Taxis and thought I might learn a bit more on Wikipedia, but the page there is a bit sparse, and the only new thing I found out was that there's a game based on it. Haven't played it, but seems a bit interesting.

[nathreee.livejournal.com]

Junta Puerto Rico: Build a colony in the new world and shoot the mayer if he's not doing it the way you like it!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/242
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3076

(btw, note the "colonists" in Puerto Rico, the little black markers you set to work on your plantattions and in your factories...)

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

¡Viva la revolución!