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Games you can play underwater
Joshua Hockaday
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These are games that the components can all be submerged underwater and the pieces will not be ruined. I am not talking about games that are home made specifically to be played underwater, but games that can be bought from the store.
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Posted Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:00 pm
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1. Board Game: Blokus [Average Rating:7.29 Overall Rank:115]
Joshua Hockaday
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2. Board Game: Hive [Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:83]
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The bakelite version of course!
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J. David Koch
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The bakelite version of course!


....Yep, it would be hard to play the wooden version.
All that floating around you know....
3. Board Game: Dominoes [Average Rating:5.44 Overall Rank:4764]
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Dominoes!!
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4. Board Game: Chinese Checkers [Average Rating:5.11 Overall Rank:5259]
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There are versions with plastic boards.
5. Board Game: Checkers [Average Rating:4.79 Overall Rank:5350]
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There are all plastic versions out there.
Greg Gatto
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0708
You mean, like this?

6. Board Game: The Ungame [Average Rating:2.51 Overall Rank:5388]
Lowell Kempf
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I'd say underwater is a perfectly reasonably alternative way to play the Ungame, as opposed to the method pictured here! :D
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All your base are belong to us
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You win if you drown before having to play!
7. Board Game: Chess [Average Rating:7.05 Overall Rank:218]
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Plastic board.
8. Board Game: Chairs [Average Rating:5.51 Overall Rank:4182]
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9. Board Game: Meepile [Average Rating:6.76 Overall Rank:2504]
Surya Van Lierde is pure Eurosnoot and proud of it!
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The meeples floating away will add a whole new dimension to this one!
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10. Board Game: UNO - H2O [Average Rating:5.95 Overall Rank:3360]
Ben Lott
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Title of this picture by Pathirtle: "Finally! You don't have to stop playing UNO to take a bath."
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JAE
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the one I was thinking of (in addition to Hive)
11. Board Game: Upwords [Average Rating:5.77 Overall Rank:2676]
Fighting renegade robots since 2003
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All plastic pieces and board. They might stay together, too.
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Edited Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:31 pm
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12. Board Game: Rock Paper Scissors [Average Rating:4.79 Unranked]
Bernd Caspers
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You could play several rounds before you have to breath again.
13. Board Game: Mancala [Average Rating:5.87 Overall Rank:2130]
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14. Board Game: Yahtzee [Average Rating:5.08 Overall Rank:5306]
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Without the score sheets!!
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Wax pencil on OHP transparency copies on metal clipboard. Works great.

Or so claims a commercial undersea welding inspector I know.
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Edited Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:28 pm
Craig Duncan
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Play the dice game Mia and you don't need a score sheet -- just use coins or other tokens to keep track of "lives".
15. Board Game: Pass the Pigs [Average Rating:5.21 Overall Rank:5227]
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16. Board Game: Battleship [Average Rating:4.41 Overall Rank:5379]
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Christopher Taylor
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Wouldn't it be called "Submarine" then?
All your base are belong to us
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Yes, but there would still be one battleship
17. Board Game: Slap Stick [Average Rating:5.30 Unranked]
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18. Board Game: Twister [Average Rating:4.55 Overall Rank:5367]
Bobby Doran
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A couple of weight belts and weights on the corners...
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19. Board Game: Stadium Checkers [Average Rating:5.70 Overall Rank:3804]
Don Weed
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Especially effective when placed directly on top of the pool drain.
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20. Board Game: Avalanche [Average Rating:5.68 Overall Rank:3756]
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Gates could float open for an added level of difficulty.
21. Board Game: The Ungame [Average Rating:2.51 Overall Rank:5388]
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Please (but you might not want to extinguish the fire)!

I completely missed Gnomekind's entry of this before. My apologies. Great minds think alike.
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22. Board Game: Zendo [Average Rating:7.34 Overall Rank:190]
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The boxed set is out of print, but the standard components for making this game (pyramids from Treehouse sets and gaming stones) are waterproof. Using the Zendo cards might be problematic, but those are optional anyway.
23. Board Game: Don't Break the Ice [Average Rating:4.61 Overall Rank:5324]
Mike
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Of course if you're underwater you probably want to break the ice as quickly as possible.
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24. Board Game: Pick Up Sticks [Average Rating:4.12 Overall Rank:5380]
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25. Board Game: Barrel of Monkeys [Average Rating:3.68 Overall Rank:5386]
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I've actually tried this and it doesn't work because the monkeys semi-float.
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Durril Weller
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Settlers of Catan - The Great River

Catan is so good, I'd play it anywhere.
Anni Foasberg
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DC_Jackal wrote:
Catan is so good, I'd play it anywhere.


Would you play it in a box? Would you play it with a fox???
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I read in a monopoly book that there were a couple guys who played it underwater. I don't recall if it was special pieces or under a dome or what.

But since I'm not a fan of monopoly I didn't really want to add it to the list :)
Harvey O'Brien
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lol. I thought it said 'Games you can play in underwear'... double take!
Dean Weller
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that would be a better list..

mmm.........How about Risk?
Laszlo Molnar
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Not having seen this list I created my own with almost the same title (an hour ago) that was basically the same (I have deleted it since). What's rather interesting is the fact that while this list got quite active in the past one hour, my list got 6 new entries BEFORE going active...Strange things happen.
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