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GeekList: Games that teach your kids how to fail at Life!

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Doug Mann

(Doug1020)

United States
Corpus Christi
Texas

Even if you win, there's usually some failure along the way.

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Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 10:24 pm

Patrick Riley

(xenongames)

United States
San Jose
California

Of course their may be failures along the way, that's teaching kids about life, not how to fail it. In fact, Careers specifically teaches boss how to set and achieve goals, now to prioritize and balance life, and yes, sometime bad things happen along with the good.

Posted Mon Apr 9, 2012 1:57 am
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GeekList: Worst Game Night Ever? Quite Possibly....

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Toad

(JesterPoet)

United States
Bloomington
MN

Started the night off with this gem. Oh yeah... hours of fun.

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Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 6:32 am

Randall Bart

(Barticus88)

United States
Granada Hills
California

Red October

Earth is one of my favorite planets

At least you got to play this one great game before the three crap games

Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 6:39 am
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Mal Content

(curmudgeon)

United States
Caln Township
Pennsylvania

I play this one fairly often with my 8-year-old granddaughters. And yes, actually, we do have fun.

Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 12:30 pm
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David Bohnenberger

(Dweeb)

United States
Swarthmore
Pennsylvania

The "set your own victory conditions" rule is kinda fun. I guess it's the only real decision you make in the game though.

Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 2:09 pm
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Toad

(JesterPoet)

United States
Bloomington
MN

Actually, I can see that. I imagine when my son is a little older, this will be a good choice. In fact, many of the games that we have kept that I would classify as "crap" we hang on to because they are games I played with my dad when I was a kid, and I plan to play with my kids again one day.

German Chatter, I'm looking at you.

Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 2:10 pm
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Randall Bart

(Barticus88)

United States
Granada Hills
California

Red October

Earth is one of my favorite planets

Dweeb wrote:

The "set your own victory conditions" rule is kinda fun. I guess it's the only real decision you make in the game though.

I have always felt the victory conditions were a good idea that didn't work. I always chose 20, 20, 20 (30, 30 , $40 when playing to 100). The skill is in choosing when to use you Opportunity and Experience cards. The game would be better if you started with a few cards.

Posted Sun Apr 8, 2012 9:10 pm
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GeekList: Games to play with my 5 yr old son

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Doug Mann

(Doug1020)

United States
Corpus Christi
Texas

I first played this one at either 5-1/2 or 6 years of age. Gets you thinking about how you look at life, and you set your own victory conditions. Only roll-and-move that I still play. A classic. thumbsup

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Posted Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:41 pm

GeekList: Games Twisted By Removing The First Letter

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

MTMeeple

(SilentCat)

Canada

Players lose their jobs and vie to fall furthest behind in their mortgage payments without getting evicted. For added realism, add the repo and food bank expansions.

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Posted Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:35 pm

GeekList: Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds: 19 - 25 March 2012

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Joshua Gertz

(Gertz)

United States
Las Vegas
Nevada

1.99 at DI

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Posted Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:34 am

GeekList: Weirdest Ways to Win

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Doug Mann

(Doug1020)

United States
Corpus Christi
Texas

Four-player, my blue has even goals & needs 8 fame to win. I'm on the Space career and land on Draw 2 Experience. The first is a 2, no help. The second is a 4. The next turn I play it, "Jump Over Mountain, gain 10 fame but Go to Hospital." Somehow I knew one day I'd want to land on that space, but this is the first time it ever happened.

(Edit: for non-Careers players, this space is the bane of the Space-farers existence, since it boots you out of the career path before you secure the valuable experience that allows you to avoid paing the $5,000 entry costs on future attempts)

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Posted Sun Mar 18, 2012 3:24 pm

fen

(Styfen)

Wales
Cardiff
The Vale of Glamorgan

I remember that space in space!

Posted Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:51 am
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GeekList: A Personal Year By Year Games of the Year

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Stephen Roney

(sroney)

United States
Ladera Ranch
California

1955 - Careers

A childhood staple, and I believe still in print, though I also believe it has been modified somewhat to update the careers.

Looking over the list of games published in 1955, none jump out at me as likely candidates to unseat this one. I suppose there is a chance that the other one that I own, the as-yet-unplayed Calypso

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Posted Sat Mar 3, 2012 8:48 pm

Frank McGirk

(jollypirate)

United States
Marquette

Uranium prospector!

Posted Mon Mar 5, 2012 2:09 pm
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GeekList: Bet your bottom dollar; games where you bet with play money.

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Mark Saya

(msaya)

United States
Los Angeles
California

Careers features a bet on the stock market square on its main, outer track.

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Posted Thu Mar 8, 2012 9:24 pm

GeekList: Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds: 13 - 19 February 2012

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Dave Passmore

(docp)

United Kingdom
Scarborough

Took my daughter out today, my wife was feeling under the weather, on the way home she suggested we looked in the charity shops. Good girl. She's only 7 but enjoys the thrill of a bargain as much as me. While we were paying for her Garfield book one of the sorting staff popped his head out of the back and mouthed "board games" at me. Guess they've got my card marked.

He and his friend produced three goodies.

Careers, English first edition with the unboxed board and seperately boxed components.......

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Posted Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:06 am

GeekList: The totally not splurging on the sale table SABG session report (2/6/12)

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Eric Spehr

(tempest9)

San Antonio
Texas

Played the 1997 version of Careers with Sean and Joe. Local Park Bench was busy. I won with a somewhat balanced, but heart heavy, success target.

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Posted Tue Feb 7, 2012 7:33 am

GeekList: Games to be Donated to New Homes

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

hcrites54

(hcrites54)

United States
Columbus
Ohio

First edition.

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Posted Tue Jan 31, 2012 3:08 pm

GeekList: GCL Eclipse Division 25 (item 26?!): Potpourri

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Sylvester Deluxe

(bippi)

United States
Aurora
Colorado

In the vein of, "too young to understand how to play, tragically." I was 3-4 years old, tops. Babysitters were watching me.

I said, "lets play queers!"*

I don't remember exactly, but it never got to the table.

I was later told when I was much older, I guess the babysitters asked my parents, "what's queers?" and they went, "OH, careers!..."

*I assure you, I was NOT ever playing the game Careers at 3-4 years old. Any more or less than anything else I was 'playing' with mom and dad. The money in the late 70s version, pictured, was and still is, darn cool.

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Posted Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:15 am

Phil McDonald

(philmcd)

England
Staffordshire
UK

Careers was one of the many games I got instead of Monopoly year after year at Christmas. But it didn't disappoint and I've still got it

Posted Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:52 am
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John Bandettini

(JohnBandettini)

United Kingdom
London

No, no, no, no, no, yes

A new season and all is well in the world

I played Careers so much as a kid, you could set any combination of 60 points to score and I could tell you exactly how to get them.

Posted Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:16 pm
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Dave Kudzma

(locusshifter)

United States
Gumboro
Delaware

Muffins.

I remember playing Mouse Trap as a kid, though I think like most people we never really played as much as assembled the trap just to play with the Rube Goldberg machination a few times before we boxed it back up again. Another great game that was more an advertisement than a game was Hawaiian Punch. The playing pieces were molded from play dough:

At what I remember being random intervals you would take a large plastic piece (the orange on on the left of the picture) and smash the play dough ones. If I remember correctly your piece was still ok as long as it was so thick. I also think I remember the goal being to get to the end of the path, and that NEVER HAPPENING.

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Posted Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:25 am
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Chester Ogborn

(cornjob)

United States
Albuquerque
New Mexico

locusshifter wrote:

I remember playing Mouse Trap as a kid, though I think like most people we never really played as much as assembled the trap just to play with the Rube Goldberg machination a few times before we boxed it back up again. Another great game that was more an advertisement than a game was Hawaiian Punch. The playing pieces were molded from play dough:

At what I remember being random intervals you would take a large plastic piece (the orange on on the left of the picture) and smash the play dough ones. If I remember correctly your piece was still ok as long as it was so thick. I also think I remember the goal being to get to the end of the path, and that NEVER HAPPENING.

Loading those images where part of how I earned the gg for my avatar.

Hawaiian Punch was a blast!

Posted Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:54 am
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Jason Lott

(DancerInDC)

United States
Cheverly
Maryland

Oh, I loved Careers - I think because I didn't own it, so it was a treat to play it with friends.

Posted Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:14 pm
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GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 16 - 22 January 2012

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

William Smith

(drawk)

Canada
Ottawa
Ontario

Careers first edition (1955) - $2.99 @ Value Village

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Posted Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:35 pm

GeekList: My First Year as a Full-Fledged Geek: Gaming Year in Review

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Sam Link

(Slonk)

United States
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania

Another nostalgia solo play. I took on the role of 4 players with different formulas. Fame won, but the game didn't. Back to the shelf it goes...

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Posted Mon Jan 2, 2012 4:37 pm

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Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Jeremy Wolford

(VolcanoLotus)

United States
Henrietta
New York

A classic roll-and-move game that lets you set your own victory conditions and offers more decisions than most of the time than Monopolies and the like. A favorite in many families, judging from comments here.

1979 Parker Brothers edition. Box has some tape and a slightly dented corner but is otherwise in very good condition and extremely structurally sound. This doesn't have a component list, so I can't 100% guarantee it's complete, but I have played it recently and if anything was missing, it wasn't obvious (many score sheets remain as well). If anyone has a component list for this edition, I'll be happy to re-inventory.

Minimum Bid: $5 $1

I will also consider trade offers.

Last Day Edit! I will also consider food/drink bids! I typically buy lunch from the cart at the hotel, so this would be a gain for me. The food/drink doesn't have to come from there; I reserve the right to deny edible bids and to determine which bid is the winner.

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Edited Wed Feb 1, 2012 3:47 am
Posted Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:37 pm

GeekList: Gaming with Kim Jong-il

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Bruce Baskir

(Mr Bassman)

United States

Missouri

On his first trip around the board he completed the difficult to land on "Dictator" track which netted him sixty Power points - enough to win the game.

In playing the game, I have never chosen Power in my formula for success because the points are practically impossible to obtain - which makes his feat infinitely more praiseworthy.

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Posted Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:21 am

GeekList: Swedish Boardgame History project, list nr 3 - Original swedish versions

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Josef Magnusson

(josefm)

Sweden

Orginalet utgivet 1955, kom till sverige en tid senare och har sedan följt med fram tills idag i olika upplagor.

Svenskt orginal:

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Posted Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:42 pm

GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 19 - 25 December 2011 (Merry Christmas!)

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Preben

(ZIP66)

Sweden

Found at a charity shop today.
Some tear on the box.
Complete.
Canada 1965 edition.
$2.91

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Edited Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:47 pm
Posted Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:40 pm

GeekList: Your Thrift Store / Bargain Finds: 19 - 25 December 2011 (Merry Christmas!)

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Kathleen B

(k2outside)

United States
Boise
Idaho

$1.75 Hip 70's edition that looks like it was illustrated by the same person who did my childhood edition of Pay Day. Looks unplayed. My buddy at the thrift store went into the back to find any new board games for me especially. Unfortunately, there were mostly puzzles. Shelf pictures are from another store where I got nothing. I didn't get shelf pictures of this store.

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Posted Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:52 pm

Kathleen B

(k2outside)

United States
Boise
Idaho

On the shelves in the fourth picture is a game that's just right for a 3M bookshelf game, but is black with hot pink on it. Unfortunately, it seems to have been out of view when I took the picture. (I think it's to the left of Tribond Kids.) Anyhow, it's been there for quite a while now and my heart jumps every time I see it because it looks like it might be the very well rated PanzerBlitz. But, in fact, it's the very poorly rated Beat Detroit.

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Posted Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:31 pm
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Clint Herron

(HanClinto)

United States
Elkhart
Indiana

Several Ravensburgers in there that I would give a good look at, but the main one I see that I would grab (despite the smell) would be Pirates Dice.

Posted Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:01 pm
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Kathleen B

(k2outside)

United States
Boise
Idaho

HanClinto wrote:

Several Ravensburgers in there that I would give a good look at, but the main one I see that I would grab (despite the smell) would be Pirates Dice.

I considered every Ravensburger, but our kids have at least a couple of dozen Ravensburgers (love how the boxes are a few standard sizes!) as well as many other games. They're getting four more large box games for Christmas. So, I have to be picky. We'll be ditching a few more Ravensburgers after Christmas. Our copy of the Squirrel Game went in the last ditch. It was sad. I so love Ravensburger games.

I looked at Pirates Dice, too. All the dice and cups were there, but it's a big box for not much value. I could pirate the pirate dice, but I don't think we have a single game with a skull theme! The pips seemed to be tinted pink. Is that normal?

Posted Sun Dec 25, 2011 6:34 am
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GeekList: San Antonio Boardgamers - Games played on 10 December 2011

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Scott Awesome

(Keggy)

United States
San Antonio
Texas

Can't read my POKAH FASE

Joseph got to play his favorite game.

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Posted Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:35 am

GeekList: Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds 5 - 11 Dec 2011

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Billy Compton

(Wargamer777)

United States
Boiling Springs
South Carolina

Decided to hit the ole GW in Spartanburg. Normally junk here, but I cut the corner and see a stack of vintage games. First up:

1979 version of Careers in great shape. Box bottom slightly dished, no busted corners and complete!

$2 at Goodwill, Spartaburg.

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Posted Tue Dec 6, 2011 2:57 am

GeekList: 2012 SPARE PARTS RESOURCE LIST

Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Lord

(Juxtatype)

Canada
Vancouver

Be sure to specify edition (there are lots!)

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Posted Fri Dec 30, 2011 7:43 am

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Board Game: Careers [Average Rating:5.71 Overall Rank:4038]

Jeremy Wolford

(VolcanoLotus)

United States
Henrietta
New York

1979 Parker Brothers edition. Box has some tape and a slightly dented corner but is otherwise in very good condition and extremely structurally sound. This doesn't have a component list, so I can't 100% guarantee it's complete, but I have played it recently and if anything was missing, it wasn't obvious (many score sheets remain as well). If anyone has a component list for this edition, I'll be happy to re-inventory. This is a large box and will not fit in a flat rate box.

SOFT RESERVE: $5