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Tag: games

  • Bend, Oregon Monopoly

    The title refers to the board game, not a business monopoly. Sorry to anyone coming here looking for juicy Bend business gossip. :)

    According to CNNMoney, Monopoly is updating its look with modern places and landmarks and further, letting users vote on their board placement. That’s pretty cool, and it brings to mind the panoply of custom Monopoly games that are floating around out there on just about every conceivable topic.

    Which led me to wonder: Is there a custom Bend, Oregon Monopoly game anywhere? I tentatively want to say that I might remember seeing one at one time—perhaps in one of the shops downtown—but I’m pretty doubtful. A cursory web search revealed nothing.

    So maybe I’ll make one. It’d certainly be easy enough to print out new board spaces and glue them onto an old game; anyone have any suggestions as to what they’d like to see on Bend Monopoly?

    (And then, of course, we’ll have to play at the next blogger meetup.)

  • Trivia Bee

    Last night we did something different (and fun): we went out to the Tower Theatre and I participated in The Education Foundation‘s Trivia Bee. Sadly, our team didn’t make the best showing; of the 12 questions we had (there were 12 questions per round, and six rounds, with seven different three-person teams per round), we trailed along in last place for the first half-dozen or so questions, then finally pulled it out in the end… to tie last place with a few of the other teams. :)

    It was a lot of fun, though, and we weren’t the worst team of the night, so we weren’t totally irredeemable. Although I have to say, some of the rounds seemed to have far easier questions than our round… and at least one was harder, so it could’ve been worse!

    Anyone else go last night?