Josh Bailey
United States
Atlanta
Georgia
That's what thon said.
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I was organizing a game night for about a dozen friends when some people said they wanted to throw some dice like Craps or something. They might have been joking but I told them about Can't Stop and it won them over. I played with one other person familiar with the game as well as two new people.
All of the tables were taken up by other games so we had to play on a floor in an extra room that had lots of open space. And hardwood floors. And a conveniently long walkway (read: runway) leading into the room. To make things better, one of the people who lived in the house had recently done some waxing of his snowboard in the house and part of the walkway was very slippery. You can probably guess where this is going.
On a player's turn, they would take the dice into the kitchen, run through the breakfast nook past the group playing Carcassonne, run through the living room (shaking the dice cup the whole way) and then slide into the extra room letting the dice fly out in front of them and into the game box that had been set up like a barrier. That was how you had to make your first roll of the turn. For safety considerations, everyone in the game had to yell "Don't come back here!" before they started running through the hall to make sure nobody got slammed into by a running, dice-shaking maniac. That phrase was born of a different game that we played that involved throwing knives down a hallway (no joke), so everyone in attendance knew that if they did indeed "come back here," their life could be at stake.
We were playing to three columns but at some point after the first column had been claimed, an over-zealous player slid all the way into the game knocking the pieces out of place. We declared the person who had claimed one column the winner since we needed to reconfigure the groups to accommodate new arrivals. This game was too extreme to even play to completion.
I am writing this session report with skinned knees that I got playing Can't Stop. How often can you say that about a board game?
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tim Tim TIm TIM TIMMY!!
Costa Rica
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Awesome report, thanks so much for sharing. I like the idea of the knife throwing game. In College we had a very long hallway and put my buddy against the end wall and used marker to draw an outline of his body - then I put in all the vital organs and................... I taught a lot of friends how to shoot the bow ( compound - I was a hunter as a kid ) - and we always made sure to yell Fire in the Hole before we shot so no one came up the stairs and got shot. Not the smartest thing to do I understand - but it was a lot of fun non the less.
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