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Games Jar Jar Binks would LOVE
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This is my first GeekList -- go easy. A comment by Brian Bankler on GeekList http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=...tid=377... gave me an idea for this.

This list is brought to you by one of the most annoying and ill-conceived characters in all of fiction. What games would Jar Jar Binks enjoy? A game can make this list if at least one of the following is true:

(a) It forces you to speak gibberish
(b) It doesn't seem to make any sense, no matter how many times you play
(c) It is just really, really, really annoying.

Extra points for games satisfying all of the above, or games satisfying any of the above that actually have a Star Wars related theme. I could go so many other directions with this, but let's not.

Feel free to add to this list.
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1. Board Game: Ubi [Average Rating:5.36 Overall Rank:5194]
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 Ubi Seychellian seashells schucked? Ubi Tarheel State's Tarheel tucked? Ubi Kojak lick his lolly?

This game (and Bankler's comment on it) inspired this list. It also fits criteria (a), (b), and (c). I must embarassingly admit that I own this.
Greg Case
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I too have this. I have played it 1/2 a time. It does look kind of cool though
Jim Pulles
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We had much more fun just reading the cards after pizza and a few beers. Who cares who gets the Rubi Ubi?
Jim Pulles
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We had much more fun just reading the cards after pizza and a few beers. Who cares who gets the Rubi Cubi?
Daniel Kearns
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I call this game "watch the genius". We've got one guy who not only speaks "Ubi" but has a savant-like knowledge of geography. More of a presentation than a game really.
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Our experice was similar, but we didn't have a genius. So, for us, it was more like "watch the idiots read the cards and then stare at each other blankly". :shake:
2. Board Game: Pit [Average Rating:6.44 Overall Rank:750]
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 Pit in the Binks home must be a riot.
Zeus Thunderer and Victory!
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Pit's a good game.
Scott A. Reed
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"Foursa Foursa!"

"Onesa Onesa!"

*DING*

"Meesa corner on Wheat"

"Shitsa!"
Paul Boos
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Massa Scott - meesa tinks you getsa de prize for bestsa comment!
3. Board Game: Mad Gab [Average Rating:5.06 Overall Rank:5858]
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Darin Stephenson
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 Sit around for an hour saying things like "ASK RUDE ARRIVE HER," and you'll have the sense of this game. I played this once and it was torture. I think Lucas may have been playing this when he dreamed up Jar Jar.
Zeus Thunderer and Victory!
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I've played this, too. For causal gamers, it's pretty fun. We forget who we are sometimes.
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I'm with KentuckyKid, this game is tedious and unfun. I guess the concept is good, but the clues were too easy and it was a dead heat after an hour. It is the only game in recent memory that we quit before completing.
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Good description of your avatar though, Scott.
Zeus Thunderer and Victory!
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The last time I played this game, there was a guy who was genuinely stymied by it. But he's an IT-type and would rather play Ricochet Robot or Nertz. However, his wife (an editor) was a wiz at it. But we all had fun.
4. Board Game: Taboo [Average Rating:6.37 Overall Rank:841]
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 You end up saying weird things when you can't say certain words. Extra points, since Taboo sounds like Naboo. Also, see criterion (c) above.
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Nothing wrong with this one, either.
Carl Johan Ragnarsson
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I'm with Brady on this one, one of the better party games (for a small party group I like it better). Swedish version has the trouble of clues varying too much in difficulty, and I guess that's true for the other editions as well.
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Party games are not my favorite. So, yes, I'm being unduly harsh.
5. Board Game: Munchkin [Average Rating:6.01 Overall Rank:1866]
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Darin Stephenson
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 I just find this game annoying. (Really, really, really annoying.)
Zeus Thunderer and Victory!
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The Munchkin series is an acquired taste. One I have not acquired.
Tom "Snicker Daddy" Pancoast
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I would say the opposite. If you don't like it on the first play, don't bother playing more.
John Elbl
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I find the cards and concept quite amusing. However, it gets quite old after about 30 minutes. Unforunately, the average game I have had has been > 45 minutes.
Steve McIlhatton
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I'm a bit of a Munchkin fanboi...

I can see how it annoys some folk but I just love the whole D&D piss-take aspect.
John Reiners
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New York
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We decided to end a gaming night with a nice game of munchkin with ALL the expansions thrown in and about 8 players. What joy.
m black
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this game is pretty much ass
6. Board Game: Star Munchkin [Average Rating:6.29 Overall Rank:1202]
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Darin Stephenson
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 Same as above, but half of "Star Wars" in the title.
7. Board Game: Star Wars Episode I: Customizable Card Game [Average Rating:4.89 Overall Rank:5507]
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Darin Stephenson
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 My son got this as a gift. It has a Jar Jar card. And it is really annoying. (The card or the game, take your pick.)
8. Board Game: A Rhyme in Time [Average Rating:4.15 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 I haven't played this, but it sounds as if the rhymes would lead to some Jar Jar-esque language.
9. Board Game: Lizzie McGuire Flash Talk Game [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 The Jar Jar/Lizzie connection can never be discussed too much.
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hmmm, I don't recall ever having seen them together. you don't suppose........
Darin Stephenson
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:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Compare this picture of Lizzie to the pic of Jar Jar in #15 below. I can almost see it. Lizzie's hair even resembles Jar Jar's ear (fin?) over the left shoulder. If Lizzie's eyes were on top of her head, we'd be onto something.
10. Board Game: Talk Dirty To Me [Average Rating:1.00 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 According to the summary, "the object of the game is to score the LEAST amount of points by using the most words in your hand of cards to fill in the blanks in various stories." In Star Wars, Episode I, the object was to make the most amount of money by giving the most words to the LEAST interesting character, thus filling various blanks in the plot. So, I think it qualifies.
Steve McIlhatton
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bwahahahaha...

great description, although I find the idea of Jar Jar Binks talking dirty to me very disturbing
11. Board Game: Bible Mad Gab [Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 Not much I can say about this.
Paul Blake
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On behalf of Christians everywhere:

I'm sorry. I'm deeply, humbly, and profoundly sorry for the constant tripe which is dumped on the market with our ideology factory-pressed onto the packaging.

Needless to say, this sort of thing does not represent what we're about, regardless of what the vocal percentage might seem to indicate.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they come out with "Bible Talk Dirty to Me." :devil:
Darin Stephenson
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But then wouldn't it be called

Talk Clean to Me

or

Talk Scripture to Me

or

Talk Aramaic to Me

or something like that?
Robert Wesley
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:what: Well, maybe someone will create, market, and successfully SELL a game of:

"Pin the 'Christ-Lord' on the Crucifix" Game!

...or possibly a Hebrew version of "Musical Chairs-but be certain to leave '1' of them EMPTY in case 'Whats-his-face' shows UP!"

Then again, there could be a Muslim edition of "Pass the Bomb" but they'll probably WANT to END UP with THAT, just so's they can 'hook up with Allah and them '72'-Virginians'! "
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aaaaaaack! it's RAINING 'toads & locusts' here NOW!
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12. Board Game: All Ears [Average Rating:5.05 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 Yep. "Acting out phrases using non-word sounds."
Canada = Hockey!
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All ears. That's JarJar!
13. Board Game: Bananadrama [Average Rating:6.57 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 I think this satisfies (b).
14. Board Game: Twisted Tongue [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 No comment necessary.
15. Board Game: Star Wars: Episode I - Jar Jar Binks 3-D Adventure Game [Average Rating:3.00 Unranked]
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Darin Stephenson
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 My last and least entry. It probably deserves every bit of that 1.67 average rating...
John Brier
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LOL This one takes the prize!! :laugh:
16. Board Game: Star Wars: Epic Duels [Average Rating:6.95 Overall Rank:374]
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Zeus Thunderer and Victory!
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 Jar-Jar would probably like this. I even put together a Jar-Jar deck that can be found on the Yahoo Epic Duels group...
Rob Rob
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Hopefully every card in the Jar-Jar deck reads, "Play this card, take a blaster shot to the head and loose all remaining hitpoints."
:laugh:
17. Board Game: Zendo [Average Rating:7.31 Overall Rank:217]
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 A logic puzzle pretending to be a game. Askew? Stacked? More than three on the table? Red over Blue?

Who cares?

I did my last abstract geometry question in High School and I'm never going back!
18. Board Game: Hilarium [Average Rating:5.40 Overall Rank:5152]
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 This one not only makes you sometimes speak Gibberish, but act silly enough to be Jar Jar Binks! (Try to act out a trombone playerin a Dixieland Jazz Marching Band and you will see what I mean!)
19. Board Game: Monopoly: Star Wars Episode 1 [Average Rating:5.18 Overall Rank:5742]
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I am happy.
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 Seems like the obvious choice for this list.
20. Board Game: Elixir [Average Rating:5.52 Overall Rank:4797]
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Jim Van Verth
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 I found this game very very annoying... and it can make you talk funny.
21. Board Game: Darkies in the Melon Patch [Average Rating:3.91 Unranked]
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Morgan Dontanville
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 Well due to the fact that this character is obviously a horid racial stereotype (supported by the fact that Lucas also included a hooknosed money scrounging slave owner, and evil asian merchants) Jar Jar would fit right at home in this atrocity.
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Dane Peacock
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I heard that Jar Jar is going to play Gollum in "The Hobbit". Any truth to that?
Darin Stephenson
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Mysa precioussa keeps getting lostsa!!

What has itsa got it its pocketsessa?
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If he is, I want the features section to include the noise of him being squeezed into that half-sized costume.
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I'm hoping they will just saw his legs off at the knee...

Hmm.. I can see a real market out there for a 'Kill Jar-Jar in the most painful and humilating way' game...
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Speaking of Jar Jar:

I have several Halloween tombstones we put out each year. They are inspired by the satirical Simpsoms Halloween episode Tombstones.

As therapy after Episode 1 came out I labeled one of them:

R.I.P.

Jar-Jar Binks

"Meesa Dead!"
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Dane,

And (shudder) Jake Lloyd as Bilbo?

"Whoa, slaying spiders is scary Artoo! Man, I'm cute!"

Perhaps (faint of heart attack) Hayden Christiansen as Bard the Hunter?

Ewan MacGregor as a "younger" Gandalf?

Yoda in the role of Thorin?

Let's all pray that Peter Jackson never suffers the dreaded disease Lucassinitis.
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