Myers-Briggs personality types -- and quiz

[T.o.b.y]

What is Yahtzee? Never heard of it.

 

My favorite board game is Scrabble. Unfortunately, my husband hates it. I also like Trivial Pursuit, but only with my family because we have a very old set of cards and nobody knows many answers, it's more of an obscure-knowledge-fun-guessing-game for us.

 

Then I also like Cluedo and Scotland Yard.

 

Monopoly I hate with a passion.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I love trivial pursuit. Used to be good at it from frequent playings.

[Carol the Dabbler]

What is Yahtzee? Never heard of it.

 

It's basically p0ker played with dice instead of cards. You roll several dice at once and hope for a good "hand" (three of a kind, full house, whatever). One place where I worked, we played it at lunchtime, but I haven't come across it since.

[Arcadia]

Well, phoo, am I the only one here who loves Pictionary? And Scrabble. Hard to beat Scrabble.

 

The game my friends and I play most often is Apples to Apples. Laugh ourselves silly.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Never heard of it. What's it like?

[Van Buren Supernova]

My favorite board game is Scrabble. Unfortunately, my husband hates it. I also like Trivial Pursuit, but only with my family because we have a very old set of cards and nobody knows many answers, it's more of an obscure-knowledge-fun-guessing-game for us.

Then I also like Cluedo and Scotland Yard.

Monopoly I hate with a passion.

Me too, regarding Scrabble and Cluedo.

I would still play Monopoly but despise its luck factor (especially when I'm not the one on luck :P), I think the game is decided from the first two rounds.

But I am competitive, although I play in relaxed fashion I do aim to win and in the event that winning means others have to die, they die. Unless it's agreed that we don't play it that way, I also don't like it when someone lose too fast.  So is that for blood? But I do it nicely he he.. 

 

Anyway, I also dislike cheaters, played Monopoly looong time ago with my friend's kids and they cheated through they teeth! They are kids, but that made it more annoying.. :P I was ready to lost the game but that actually made me want to crush them. (where is evil emoticon?)

Don't get me wrong, although I'm not kid person, they tend to get along with me and I invent games for them when in good mood, like at the last family gathering, annoyed of seeing every kids on their ipads or phones, I made them curious with my game and eventually joined in solving math puzzles together, the adult too (it's not easy game), turned out kids with their fresh brains are good at it. It fired back when they wanted to do that every day. Regret! My fault, I haven't met big family for years and I dislike unhealthy obsession with gadgets, because when we decide to make effort to meet, we socialize. And.. that's why it takes me years to go home once. but I make it count.

With my usual travel companions back then, all of us like Scrabble and always played it when we traveled together. However, three of them, all natural English speakers, ganged up against me most of the time, and still lost, I just know better how to make use of those magic tiles with big scores. Cheaters! But we played for fun and it's fun cheating, for them. Hmph.

 

I love trivial pursuit. Used to be good at it from frequent playings.

 Is the questions come from a deck of cards? Then eventually would you know everything from that deck.

And geez, there are questions about Kardashian? I'll be damned. Can we.... not keeping up with them?

 

 

What is Yahtzee? Never heard of it.

It's basically p0ker played with dice instead of cards. You roll several dice at once and hope for a good "hand" (three of a kind, full house, whatever). One place where I worked, we played it at lunchtime, but I haven't come across it since.

 

Yahtzee is arguably more interesting than p0ker.

There is some strategy involved but it's mostly fun. Haven't played for a while, if I remember correctly, you are rolling 5 dices, three times. Each turn you can freeze some dices (so they wouldn't roll), in here you strategize which hands you are aiming. 

There are couple of hands available and you have to fill those, each comes with their own score)

 

For example,

You roll 2,2,5,6,6.

If you aim for full house, freeze 2,2,6,6 and let the 5 roll.

If you aim for 3-of-the-kind or 4-of-the-kind, freeze 6,6 and let 2,2,5 roll. 

If you aim for biggest score (any combination would do), freeze 5,6,6 (as they are big scores)

If you aim for big straight, freeze 2,5,6. (hoping to get 3,4)

 

After freezing, you have another roll and another freeze, by then you could see how big is the probability of getting what you want and which one is more likely. I always try to secure the difficult hand first. Yahtzee (5-of-the-kind) is the most improbable unless you get really good first roll.

It sounds complicated but it's actually quite simple and fun but enough to make you think.

 

 

Well, phoo, am I the only one here who loves Pictionary? And Scrabble. Hard to beat Scrabble.

 

The game my friends and I play most often is Apples to Apples. Laugh ourselves silly.

Never played Pictionary or Apples to Apples. yah, what is that like?

[T.o.b.y]

Yahtzee sounds like the German Kniffel. Do you get a score card?

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yes, there is a score card.

I tried to find back the Yahtzee apps I used to have on my android, but everything out there now look different and messy.

 

The one I used had simple, neat and gorgeous wooden interface. It's gone now.

 

Here is random sample of score card for manual play.

[J.P.]

Gosh, games are the most boring thing on Earth. -_- Never understood why people want to play games and dreaded them, because my brain always deleted the rules before I could apply them. Oh, wait, once I was on vacation with my best friend, we were both too tired to do anything, so we spent the evening playing snake on our cellphones - each on her own. :D

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

I love trivial pursuit. Used to be good at it from frequent playings.

Is the questions come from a deck of cards? Then eventually would you know everything from that deck.

And geez, there are questions about Kardashian? I'll be damned. Can we.... not keeping up with them?

I played the original Genus edition that came out in 1982. In between times of family play (we played teams usually), I would grab the box and read the cards for fun. I once played against my older brother when I was still in elementary school (he was a teenager) and I won having to name the 7 dwarves from Snow White and answering Who does Miss Piggy Love? (That was the final question from either Arts & Literature or Entertainment).

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Well, phoo, am I the only one here who loves Pictionary? And Scrabble. Hard to beat Scrabble.

 

The game my friends and I play most often is Apples to Apples. Laugh ourselves silly.

I love pictionary, won the last game I played easily. Apples to Apples has some cards I don't care for, but their Bible edition is interesting. I still have to get used to the fact that the 2nd president of the university I went to is on 1 of the cards mainly because he's considered America's pastor (and with how many US Presidents that have asked him to visit the White House over his nearly 99 years [yes Billy Graham is still alive], the title is fitting).

[T.o.b.y]

Yes, there is a score card.

I tried to find back the Yahtzee apps I used to have on my android, but everything out there now look different and messy.

 

The one I used had simple, neat and gorgeous wooden interface. It's gone now.

 

Here is random sample of score card for manual play.

So it is Kniffel! Okay. Hm, that's supposed to be the game for my MB type? I wonder why. I mean, I like it, but it's not my favorite.

[Arcadia]

Apples to Apples is basically Cards Against Humanity without the crude humor and obscenity. Each round, there's a different word -- usually an adjective or adverb, such as "fresh," "purple" or "scary" -- and you have to match that word as best you can from the 7-8 cards in your hand. The cards in your hand are mostly people and things, like "Greenland", "Horseshoes" or "Mother Theresa" -- none of which are fresh, purple or scary, which is where the humor comes from -- you end up with a lot of funny associations. We have a ball with it.

 

Pictionary is like charades only you draw the clues instead of acting them out. Since most of my friends are artists, it's quite a hit.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Gosh, games are the most boring thing on Earth. -_- Never understood why people want to play games and dreaded them, because my brain always deleted the rules before I could apply them. Oh, wait, once I was on vacation with my best friend, we were both too tired to do anything, so we spent the evening playing snake on our cellphones - each on her own. :D

Oh I am sucker for games and I like board games since forever. I basically only go online 24/7 for about four years on common days, used to not having internet at my disposal as I didn't really feel the need until I stay abroad and need to be contactable at all times with minimal costs.

 

So without internet, during free times at home, waiting or ineffective periods like commuting etc I needed to keep myself busy. Books, yah, that too, but games are good.

I hate studying the rules too, so mostly I'd only read a brief of it and learn by playing straightaway, easier to grasp. Non tactical or missionless games (like snakes :p and the sims) can get boring real fast, but they are useful when I'm too tired to think. While tactical games could occupy me for hours, sleeping optional, even when I was not playing I thought about the strategy to solve the missions, especially when I was stuck with very difficult ones. Once the game was finished, I could replay with different tactics until eventually I got bored because there was nothing else to explore. But those were the times. Not anymore. Graphic has evolved too much for my liking, nowadays most games need very high end computer and they give me motion sickness, never like those.

 

But board games, always! And they live on through simple apps.

I think I use them as buffer too for social situation. It hardly gets awkward and there is always something to talk about if you run out of topic. It's the kind of socializing that I prefer.

Maybe part of the reason is my family used to have card nights when we were young, when everyone would update each other and talk about everything. Always looked forward to that as we didn't have other entertainments. It is nice and fun bonding moment, we still do it with various games even when we only meet very rarely.

 

Apples to Apples is basically Cards Against Humanity without the crude humor and obscenity. Each round, there's a different word -- usually an adjective or adverb, such as "fresh," "purple" or "scary" -- and you have to match that word as best you can from the 7-8 cards in your hand. The cards in your hand are mostly people and things, like "Greenland", "Horseshoes" or "Mother Theresa" -- none of which are fresh, purple or scary, which is where the humor comes from -- you end up with a lot of funny associations. We have a ball with it.

Sounds quite a mess! :D

So you are saying that there is possibility that you get Orange Donald Trump, Stinky Shoes etc..? But how the winner is decided? I'm not familiar with Cards Against Humanity too.

 

Pictionary is like charades only you draw the clues instead of acting them out.

Is it like Win, Lose or Draw?

 

Since most of my friends are artists, it's quite a hit.

Oh dear!

How long it takes for you guys to draw one question? :p Do you consider composition, lighting and color scheme? XD

 

So it is Kniffel! Okay. Hm, that's supposed to be the game for my MB type? I wonder why. I mean, I like it, but it's not my favorite.

Not sure how it's connected to your MB or the stereotype of it.

Interesting, so it's same game? I don't know what Yahtzee means and where it comes from. What Kniffel means?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Yes pictionary is similar to win, lose, or draw. As for apples to apples the person that selects the adjective/adverb card then selects the winner from all the cards the other players played. Your goal is to try to figure play the card you think the person who's "it" will pick.

[Carol the Dabbler]

As for apples to apples the person that selects the adjective/adverb card then selects the winner from all the cards the other players played. Your goal is to try to figure play the card you think the person who's "it" will pick.

 

So it's not actually about logic or creativity, it's psychology?  Too bad.  It sounded fun and interesting otherwise.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

As for apples to apples the person that selects the adjective/adverb card then selects the winner from all the cards the other players played. Your goal is to try to figure play the card you think the person who's "it" will pick.

So it's not actually about logic or creativity, it's psychology? Too bad. It sounded fun and interesting otherwise.

It is fun as sometimes what you have to choose from doesn't really fit the "it" card or the responses become outlandish. And depending on who's playing, there can be some great commentary on the merit or lack there of for each card.

[J.P.]

THIS!

[Arcadia]

Oh god, that's me all over.

 

What I'm learning, though, is that some people think that makes me a really bad person... a liar, in fact. They then get mad and try to attack me with my own words, which I, of course, don't even remember saying, because I probably didn't believe that strongly in them in the first place.

 

It's very, very upsetting to me, because I try very hard to be honest, and it's very disturbing to me that I come across as the opposite. I'm in a big funk right now for that very reason. Urgh. Any suggestions how to deal with this? Other than isolating myself from everyone, which is what I've been doing?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well, I prefer to think of myself as able to see both (all?) sides of a question, plus honest and flexible enough to change my mind when new information is presented.  It's never gotten me in trouble that I'm aware of, though that may be one reason why I seem to rub some people the wrong way.  And I've known some people who would presumably consider me a traitor -- if I'd ever agreed with them in the first place.

[Artemis]

I've got a similar problem and I've been in that funk, and I wish I had more advice for you, Arcadia.  I've been vilified more times than I can count.  I've been called disloyal, manipulative, a traitor, a liar, a monster, you name it and then some.  I spent over a decade trying to rectify it and handle it better, hoping I would come across the right way.  But what I learned through that whole experience is that no matter what I did, it was never enough to make people happy with me.  Even withholding my thoughts and opinions gets me accused of being passionless, indecisive, apathetic, secretive, boring, rude, lacking conviction, etc.  If someone is determined to see me as a villain, even if I've done nothing to directly hurt them, they're going to find the worst in me regardless of my behavior or intent.

Another example: My mother equates introversion with selfishness.  There's nothing I can do about it, she can't be convinced otherwise and it's just the way I'm wired.  So I just have to accept that she is always going to see me as a selfish person.

I know how much it hurts to be viewed as something you're not, or try very hard not to be, and I've gone the isolation route myself.  I don't know how to reconcile not wanting to be isolated with not wanting to have relationships with people who are going to vilify me all the time, since those are pretty much my only two options.  It's something I'm still trying to figure out for myself.  I haven't found the people yet who will understand and accept me for who I am, and at this point it's looking less and less likely that I ever will.

Sorry to be depressing, lol.  I wish I could be more helpful, but all I can do is commiserate.

 

 

[T.o.b.y]

Oh god, that's me all over.

 

What I'm learning, though, is that some people think that makes me a really bad person... a liar, in fact. They then get mad and try to attack me with my own words, which I, of course, don't even remember saying, because I probably didn't believe that strongly in them in the first place.

 

It's very, very upsetting to me, because I try very hard to be honest, and it's very disturbing to me that I come across as the opposite. I'm in a big funk right now for that very reason. Urgh. Any suggestions how to deal with this? Other than isolating myself from everyone, which is what I've been doing?

Hmmmm... If you're in trouble with a specific person, would they understand if you explained how you're just not entirely certain what your opinions on the topic at hand are / were and you can see both sides of the argument?

 

I don't quite understand how you'd get the reputation of a hypocrite just for being easily swayed. That might come across as a bit spineless to some people, but why accuse you of dishonesty? Or do you tend to make the same mistake as myself in speaking very decidedly and even passionately on a topic when deep down inside your view isn't really that one-sided and your brain is exploring the counter arguments even as you speak?

 

I try to think more before talking but end up in stream of consciousness mode often enough anyway. Fortunately, my family is used to it. And there are matters I do feel very strongly about, where I might understand the other side but will never agree with it.

 

Whenever I take an MBPT test, the "J" and "P" scores are almost equal. Guess that reflects what I described just now.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I have INTP friend (who likes MBTI a lot) and have to admit that he drives me nuts sometimes, because he says one thing and change to another and might change it again.

However, for him he likes to deny that he said what he said to the point that I want to bang my.. or his head.

 

But that's all mostly light hearted debates and discussions though, and I think the annoying thing for his case is the denial. Changing minds, everyone does that. Actually I prefer that people are flexible and swayable with logic etc.

Those that are hardcore and unchangeable are the frustating ones. If they are on the right side, it's good. If not, that is merely recipe for stubborn idiocy. Almost nothing is more annoying than that.

 

 

About being vilified, yah, it goddamn annoying, especially if they insist on seeing things their own ways.

 

I was in the middle of bathing my dog when my phone rings. Okay, I hardly get calls, and I admit I like to ignore calls or message especially when I'm sure the person calling merely wants to chat. But a family member has been in and out hospital, so I worried if there was important news. Didn't recognize the number, so I picked it up anyway.

 

On the other line was a male, friendly, and asking me how I was etc etc (I don't recall if he said my name), but he was directly in good mood for long chat from the pace he was using and long questions without bothering to ask if he called at the right time.

So I asked him who he was, and he tried to play around, how come I didn't remember his voice, how come I didn't recognize his number. So I said I don't and for him to quickly said it as I was in the middle of something. Noooo, he was not in a hurry, and told me who cop friend that I have, or which friend that associated with cop the most bla.. don't forget.. how am I..

I said no, who IS IT?

He said, you really don't remember who I am? Fine then, I am so hurt, thank you for your time and arrogan-

 

Click.

Should have done it earlier.

 

Now go nurse your frigging sensitive heart.

And I AM the rude one according to good normal social manner. F that too.

[Carol the Dabbler]

He probably thought he was flirting, the egocentric bastard.

[T.o.b.y]

That story sounds pretty creepy. A stranger you don't recognize calling you on your home phone and just talking away as if he knew you? That would freak me out.

 

I never take calls from unfamiliar numbers or where the number is being withheld. If it's important, the caller can leave a message on our voice-mail and if I think it's important too I will call back.