Things that took you way too long to realize....

[l3ulvl]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

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learned another new word!

you and pie should have a language challenge competition of some sort, I'd pay to see that

[Blzer]

This took me way too long in life to process (it wasn't just recently though either): the fact that Candyland is a non-strategic board game with a completely predetermined outcome.

It obviously has its charms and sense of competitiveness as you play, but it's funny how we cheer ourselves on for being... good at drawing the top card off the deck? Haha doesn't make it a worthless game at all, but I can't believe I didn't recognize that when I was younger.

At least in a game like Sorry!, you choose which pieces to move, how to split the 7 movement, whether you'd like to switch players and with whom on the 11, decide to bring someone out on a 1 or 2, etc. Definitely not a predetermined outcome and definitely a lot more "skill" involved.

[BurghFan]

Isn't Candyland geared more towards young kids though while Sorry is more a family game?

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by BurghFan

Isn't Candyland geared more towards young kids though while Sorry is more a family game?

Oh, no doubt. Candyland kind of teaches kids the concepts of board game rules, I guess. I just put them together because somebody mentioned those two games in the board games thread, and thought: "Well, they both have to do with flipping a card and making your move, but one isn't completely predetermined, except for getting out of START the first time."

So it was funny, I told my students about this once (realizing it's a game without any concept of skill whatsoever), and when a student surprisingly asked what Candyland was, I brought up a Google image. Know what I noticed? The image that I found online didn't have Plumpy, but instead was replaced by some gingerbread lady or something. Upon further research, I dug into the fact that Plumpy was somehow... degrading to fat people or something. I can't really remember, but I thought: "That's so 2017 (or whatever year I discovered that)."

[RockinDaMike]

I just noticed a bear engraved in the mountain of the Toblerone chocolate logo.

Also i never noticed there's a Hershey Kiss shape in the logo between the K and the I.

[pietasterp]

Quote: Originally Posted by l3ulvl

learned another new word! you and pie should have a language challenge competition of some sort, I'd pay to see that

I don't see why that should have been so surprising. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

[Majingir]

You SHOULDN'T feed bread to birds?

I never knew this. Apparently it doesn't really help them at all. Basically filling them up without them getting any nutritional value out of it.

I'm sure people have done this at home with leftover bread. Especially when weather is warmer. I've always done this with old bread(not stale). I break them up into small pieces and just throw it across the lawn. Let the birds take care of the rest and I wasted less food.

[mgoblue]

I don't know when I first learned this, but I keep re-remembering lol:

Baseball strikeouts, the backwards K is when they're caught looking.

I don't think i made this connection for the longest time.