First Day 1/9/14

This post is technically a day late, but hey, that's the life of a college student for you. Midnight is the new 9 p.m.. I was kinda nervous before I came to class, as you usually are before you start a new class, but it was very casual and a lot of fun. I'm taking this class with some friends but I met some new people today that were pretty cool and I hope I can get to know some of my new classmates better.

The first game I played was called Perudo or Liar's Dice as most people know it from Pirates of the Caribbean. It was a really loud game but I think that helped make it more exciting considering it's already a pretty simple game from the get go. I normally don't enjoy games that rely on calling other people's bluff, especially if you can use statistics to calculate the probability of their lies in your head. It's especially annoying when playing these games with someone who is very good at doing mental calculations. I personally don't like to do a lot of math when playing a game so I tend to shy away from games like B.S./Cheat or Poker. But I really enjoyed this game, and I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that the people I played with were more concerned with having fun than having a 100% accuracy rate in predictions. The only thing I wasn't to clear on was figuring our how many ones (wild card dice) you had to guess depending on the previous guess. I think the pattern goes take whatever number you are guessing a quantity of, divide it in half and either round up or add one depending on if it's even or odd. For example if I guess there were four sixes I would take six, half of six is three, three plus one is four, so the next person would guess four ones.

I had played Apples to Apples before and the much more adult version Cards Against Humanity. I think this game can either be fun or tedious depending on who you play it with. I like to play by picking cards that were either the best fit for the chosen adjective or that were witty. Other people just like to pick whatever is the most random, so there's really no point in having an adjective card to begin with. I had also played Pictures and Propositions which I find takes a while to play and either results in a very funny result or one that is too similar to the original sentence to be entertaining. All in all, I had a fun time and I look forward to the rest of this class.