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FReeper Canteen ~ Canteen Kids: What Internet Games Do You Play? ~ March 1, 2006
Feb. 28, 2006
| Goldstar
Posted on 02/28/2006 6:17:46 PM PST by Goldstar
I would like to thank the troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world, protecting us here in America and fighting to save innocent Iraqis from the torture that they used to go through. That is why I chose to participate in the Canteen Kids for this week. This time, its about games!
I hope that you will like the games that I have found. The last one has an enormous amount of games there, with some that you can edit your own level! And if you get a chance, sign up with Neopets!
Neopets
Parker Brothers
The name "Parker Brothers" is probably familiar in most American households. People know them for at least several popular board games-- Monopoly, Risk, Clue, and Sorry. But who were the Parker Brothers?
George Parker was born in 1867 in Salem, Massachusetts, the youngest of Mr. and Mrs. George Parker's three sons. Although he wanted to be a journalist, Parker was an avid game player and even had an informal game-playing club with several of his friends. When Parker was only a teenager, he invented his first game, Banking, in which players borrowed money from a bank and attempted to make money through speculating.
One-hundred-and-sixty cards determined each player's luck. In 1883, with the encouragement of his friends and older brother, Charles, Parker decided to publish Banking. After being turned down by two Boston book publishers, he spent forty dollars having 500 sets of Banking printed. By the end of the year, he sold all but two dozen of the games and made a hundred-dollar profit.
Milton Bradley
Milton Bradley was a game pioneer, credited by many with launching the game industry in North America. But years before he invented his first game, Bradley enjoyed a successful career in lithography.
Born in Vienna, Maine, in 1836, Bradley chose a career in printing and lithography in his late teens and set about learning the trade. In 1860, he set up Massachusetts' first color lithography shop in Springfield. One of his lithographs, a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, sold especially well, until Lincoln grew a beard and rendered Bradley's beardless image out-of-date.
At about the same time Bradley's lithography business was beginning to wane, Bradley visited a friend who challenged him to a game. Although it hasn't been recorded, this was probably an imported European game using a spinner to determine how many spaces a player moves. Bradley was inspired with a new ideahe would invent a game. Bradley designed a board game called The Checkered Game of Life. The object was to obtain a happy old age instead of financial ruin and a player's luck was decided by a numbered spinner. Players moved game pieces over sixty-four squares, which could be good, bad, or neutral according to their color.
By 1861, Bradley had sold more than 45,000 copies of his game. He formed Milton Bradley and Company in 1864 to print other games and game manuals.
Real Arcade
North Pole
Disney Blast
Student Links
Surf Net Kids
These are a few of the games that my Gramma likes.
Sudoku
Word Search+
Escapa! (try to do this for 18 seconds)
Puzzles, games, trivia
Yahoo! Games
The reason why computer games are played more often than board games these days is because computers are more common.
What games do YOU like to play?
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To: StarCMC
.........do it, or my "Kitty-Katz" will come to you to discuss the problem....
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:07:23 PM PST
by
tomkow6
(Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Ohhh thats a fine looking breakfast. Wheres the tobasco? ;)
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:09:23 PM PST
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: StarCMC
I am in and out. Just found a Mahjong game and as it loaded it shut everything else down. LOL!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:11:10 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
To: tomkow6
124
posted on
02/28/2006 8:11:57 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: The Mayor
Thanks, Mayor, for today's sustenance for body and soul.
Hope your winter is still at a minimum.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:12:21 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
To: HopeandGlory
Can you just go to it and play, or do you need to download it?
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:14:15 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
To: StarCMC
I bought my dad one of the books of Sudoku AND a bunch of erasers...gotta mail that thing...
To: StarCMC
.........you forget, I don't have what you call "skunks"....
........I have "KITTY-KATZ"!
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:15:22 PM PST
by
tomkow6
(Canteen CooCoo Consultant, and CookingWithLARD.com person Lard greases the way for tomorrow)
To: Brad's Gramma
You gotta have erasers!!
That's why I love the PDA or online version. Not so much erasing! LOL
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:15:44 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: Kathy in Alaska
I'm sorry...
To: Brad's Gramma; Goldstar
He did a good job.
Hi, Goldstar....you did good. Do good with your homework and studying.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:15:59 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
To: tomkow6
I think this will work on them too. He he he!
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:17:31 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC; tomkow6
Oh my goodness, Star.....Skunk-Away Spray. ROTFLMBO!!
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:18:45 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
To: Goldstar; StarCMC; All
134
posted on
02/28/2006 8:20:21 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(Fobbit = REMF ... how do you like me now?)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Someone ELSE had obviously run into Tom before me. They had already invented the stuff!! LOL
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:20:23 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: mylife
Good evening, my. Vehicle hunting today?
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:20:44 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
To: Old Sarge
137
posted on
02/28/2006 8:22:15 PM PST
by
StarCMC
(Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
To: StarCMC
Dang!! I can just picture that one!! hehehe
My guess is that "Daddy" ain't going to worry to much about that one......
I sure wouldn't!
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:23:30 PM PST
by
Howie66
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")
To: laurenmarlowe
Great pictures, lauren. I'm thinking that all the sand in Iraq is hiding something. It boggles the mind what is waiting to be found.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:23:45 PM PST
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Operation Easter and Passover ~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
How is Michigan doing for winter? Are you warm? Have you had to shovel alot?
Good evening Kathy. Winter has been a bit mild so far as snow goes. Only had to use the snow blower about 4 times for the wet & heavy stuff.
We may see more ice on the way late Wednesday into Thursday;
Tueday Night: Increasing Clouds Low: 12 Winds: Lgt & Var
Wednesday: Mostly Cloudy Rain/Fr. Rain/Snow Late High: 31 Winds: E 5-10
Thursday: Snow Showers High: 34 Low: 25
Friday: Partly Sunny High: 32 Low: 17
Saturday: Partly Sunny High: 32 Low: 15
Sunday: Chance of Rain/Snow Showers High: 36 Low: 20
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:24:14 PM PST
by
Gucho
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