Reggae Joe
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48 degrees...that's why it'll probably be at least a month before I hit the water...that, and a lack of money, that is...
ISOSAD - It's back...
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trucker girl
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Hmmm. Maybe we could start high stakes ScubUNO gambling where we're the house. The house always wins, right?
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It's funny, I read this thread and then go look for around for stuff on Craigslist and what do I find....
An underwater chess/checkers set.
http://dallas.craigslist.org/tag/334216808.html
An underwater chess/checkers set.
http://dallas.craigslist.org/tag/334216808.html
trucker girl
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CenTexDivin:It's funny, I read this thread and then go look for around for stuff on Craigslist and what do I find....
An underwater chess/checkers set.
http://dallas.craigslist.org/tag/334216808.html
VERY COOL!
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Sweet...I'd love to give UW chess a shot...
trucker girl
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You can play me, Joe. Then you'll win for sure. I'll be playing checkers with the little horsey guys. 
Okay, how about *this*...
Take one laminated "map". Add a grease pencil. Now add several colored dice in a clear-topped watertight plastic case (since you can't roll dice reliably in water -- the viscosity's too high for good rolls). Add in a special deck of laminated cards. What do you have?
Underwater RISK! *That* would be worth a game.
Of course, you know where all this will lead, don't you? We're going to end up playing Monopoly underwater. It simply must be, sooner or later. (No paper money -- just an accounting slate. The board would be done as a laminated "slate" and operated with a grease pencil or whatever, and all the cards would have to be laminated, but it'd be workable.)
Hmm....
We *really* need to schedule a weekend for the first ISOSAD Air/Nitrox Dives for Underwater Gaming, Leisure, and You (ISOSAD: AND UGLY -- hey, it's eye-catching, and we certainly can't take ourselves too seriously, eh?
). I don't really care where it is, as long as there is a decent 10-20' platform on which to play (since we'll need a platform for some of the games, and shallower is better for thermal and air consumption considerations). I can bring several decks of various cards (UNO and Bicycle), and I'll volunteer to do Risk *and* Monopoly for my board game submissions. Someone else can do checkers, chess, and maybe Chinese checkers? We already have Connect Four, don't we?
So far, my schedule's open any of the following weekends:
So, who's in for the first ISOSAD: AND UGLY?
Take one laminated "map". Add a grease pencil. Now add several colored dice in a clear-topped watertight plastic case (since you can't roll dice reliably in water -- the viscosity's too high for good rolls). Add in a special deck of laminated cards. What do you have?
Underwater RISK! *That* would be worth a game.
Of course, you know where all this will lead, don't you? We're going to end up playing Monopoly underwater. It simply must be, sooner or later. (No paper money -- just an accounting slate. The board would be done as a laminated "slate" and operated with a grease pencil or whatever, and all the cards would have to be laminated, but it'd be workable.)
Hmm....
We *really* need to schedule a weekend for the first ISOSAD Air/Nitrox Dives for Underwater Gaming, Leisure, and You (ISOSAD: AND UGLY -- hey, it's eye-catching, and we certainly can't take ourselves too seriously, eh?
). I don't really care where it is, as long as there is a decent 10-20' platform on which to play (since we'll need a platform for some of the games, and shallower is better for thermal and air consumption considerations). I can bring several decks of various cards (UNO and Bicycle), and I'll volunteer to do Risk *and* Monopoly for my board game submissions. Someone else can do checkers, chess, and maybe Chinese checkers? We already have Connect Four, don't we?So far, my schedule's open any of the following weekends:
- June 9-10
- June 23-24
- July 7-8
- July 21-22
So, who's in for the first ISOSAD: AND UGLY?
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OMG! Clay Jar- you make all the time I waste on this board worth while! ISOSAD: AND UGLY! That's AWESOME!
erparamedic
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That's GREAT!!! I have one more suggestion.... using Clay's "watertight box with dice" and "grease pencil/laminated paper" idea...
Whatcha think?? I absolutely LOVE Yahtzee!!!
Whoa! Think of all the fun we could have! Maybe we should think about staging extra air tanks on the platforms... considering we're at a shallow (12-20 ft) depth, we could stay down... uh... forever!
YAHTZEE!
Whatcha think??
I absolutely LOVE Yahtzee!!! Whoa! Think of all the fun we could have! Maybe we should think about staging extra air tanks on the platforms... considering we're at a shallow (12-20 ft) depth, we could stay down... uh... forever!
Yahtzee would be a perfectly playable game, but there is one caveat: since you have to roll all the dice every time, you have to have five different-colored dice so you can say, "I'm keeping the two 5s and rolling three dice." You then roll the dice and only use the first three (it doesn't matter which color the ones you kept were; only the quantities count). Of course, since I have somewhere well over 1500 dice (IIRC, they're for a game of my own invention which cannot practically be played underwatererparamedic:That's GREAT!!! I have one more suggestion.... using Clay's "watertight box with dice" and "grease pencil/laminated paper" idea...
YAHTZEE!
Whatcha think??
), I should be able to handle having several colors in the dice roller.*Actually*, just by myself, I have three first-stages and a total of four second stages, so setting up some 100cf stage bottles to share wouldn't be a problem, and if we were near a dock, I've got a 25' long hose I use for pool cleaning...erparamedic:Whoa! Think of all the fun we could have! Maybe we should think about staging extra air tanks on the platforms... considering we're at a shallow (12-20 ft) depth, we could stay down... uh... forever!
Hehe, we all get set up and tied down to a platform, and whenever someone's getting low on air, they can just use the stage for a while while they send their rig to the surface for a valet tank swap.
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