Games Jar Jar Binks would LOVE
Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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This is my first GeekList -- go easy. A comment by Brian Bankler on GeekList <A TARGET=BLANK HREF=http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=3776> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=...tid=377...;/A> 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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Board Game: Ubi
[Average Rating:5.32 Overall Rank:7088]
Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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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.
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Board Game: Pit
[Average Rating:6.42 Overall Rank:904]
Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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Pit in the Binks home must be a riot.
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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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.
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Board Game: Taboo
[Average Rating:6.32 Overall Rank:1077]
Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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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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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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I just find this game annoying. (Really, really, really annoying.)
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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Same as above, but half of "Star Wars" in the title.
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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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.)
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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I haven't played this, but it sounds as if the rhymes would lead to some Jar Jar-esque language.
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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The Jar Jar/Lizzie connection can never be discussed too much.
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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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.
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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Not much I can say about this.
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Board Game: All Ears
[Average Rating:5.05 Unranked]
Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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Yep. "Acting out phrases using non-word sounds."
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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I think this satisfies (b).
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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No comment necessary.
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Darin
United States
Holland
Michigan
I do not run and hide... I strategically maneuver.
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My last and least entry. It probably deserves every bit of that 1.67 average rating...
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Rolling bad dice in wargames since 1977
United States
Austin
Texas
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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...
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Board Game: Zendo
[Average Rating:7.31 Overall Rank:281]
Jayson Abbott
United States
Unspecified
Unspecified
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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!
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Paul Boos
Spain
Falls Church
Virginia
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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!)
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I am happy.
United States
Milford
Ohio
Be Good, Play Happy
By the power of Greyskull!
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Seems like the obvious choice for this list.
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Jim Van Verth
United States
Durham
North Carolina
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I found this game very very annoying... and it can make you talk funny.
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Morgan Dontanville
United States
Brooklyn
New York
Plate of Shrimp.
Here we are folks, the dream we all dream of.
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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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Well, maybe someone will create, market, and successfully SELL a game of:
Stansbury Park
Utah
Holland
Michigan
What has itsa got it its pocketsessa?
Unspecified
Unspecified
Leumeah
NSW
Hmm.. I can see a real market out there for a 'Kill Jar-Jar in the most painful and humilating way' game...
Aubrey
Texas
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!"
Albany
New York
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.