Thrifting in Yuma

We did a quick run through some thrift shops in Yuma on the way home from our trip.  The one that had the best selection of games was the Humane Society of Yuma Thrift Shop, although that was probably skewed by the fact the our top pick of thrift shops is usually humane society (who help needy animals), and maybe some charities that help needy humans.

I came home with National Geographic Mission: Survival, Dysfunction, Ono-99 (a Uno variant), and Quiddler (which I didn't think we had a copy of, but we probably do).

When we finally got home, I looked over the rules, cards, etc, and the first two look like they are going to be duds for us.  Mission: Survival has a gorgeous game board but is essentially a Trivial Pursuit with difficult geography questions that I would have no problem with, but Anne would not enjoy at all.  She won't know about the Ivory Coast or some specific fjord in Norway.  I wonder if we can just roll dice to score the points instead of answering questions.  It's a big nerf, but we'll see.  Maybe if I have to answer the questions, but she just has to roll a 4 or higher, it might level the playing field.

Dysfunction isn't going to work for us.  First, it has a 3 player minimum because one player has to judge answers.  I hate all of the "judge my answers" games.  What's worse, is the whole point of the game is to tell embarrassing stories about your own family, so even beyond the embarrassment, you will run of out stories and have nothing left for next time.

We will check out the other two when we can.