[Blindtlk] games

[Julie J]

Cool!  Lots of new games to check out!

Thanks!
Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cari Kness" <carisuekness at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] games


> Hi Julie,
> My dad and sister taught me a new game recently. It's a card game called 
> Wizzard. It's not available in braille as far as I know but it's easy to 
> get and braille. Wizzard deck contains the 52 cards plus 4 wizzard cards 
> and 4 jesture cards. It's not hard once you learn it and directions are 
> included. Backgammon is also a really fun board game as is Othello. 
> Othello is available at Future Aids and Backgammon I believe is available 
> at Independent Living aids. I bought my Wizzard deck at a store called 
> Games by James but I'm sure it's available elsewhere. HTH.  Also, you can 
> buy tactual Cribbage boards and a braille deck of cards. One more thing. 
> There is available a card book that tells of lots of different games you 
> can play with a simple deck of cards. Oh, I thought of one more. Rack-o. 
> Again, it has 60 cards easy to braille. The numbers are 1 through 60. The 
> new version has other stuff on them but you can play the old way. The 
> little racks have raised numbers down the sides too. It's fun. Just tought 
> an 8 year old how to play not long ago.
> Peace,
> cari
> At 02:39 PM 2/1/2010, you wrote:
>>Hello all!
>>
>>I am looking for games to play with my family and a teen I mentor.   I am 
>>specifically wanting something that can be played in 30 to 60 minutes, is 
>>easy to learn, is appropriate for people age 12 and over, costs less than 
>>$30 and is self contained...meaning a board or card game.
>>
>>If it's already playable by blind people out of the box that would be most 
>>excellent!  If not I can Braille or label as necessary within reasonable 
>>limits.  For example I would have no problem Brailing a deck of cards, but 
>>Brailing an entire set of Trivial Pursuit cards is out.  I just do not 
>>have that sort of time.
>>
>>I have looked at some of the more common blindness product web sites.  I 
>>have found all sorts of cards, checkers, chess, Bingo, dominoes and tic 
>>tac toe , as well as some classics like Monopoly and Scrabble.   I am 
>>really interested in newer games or more uncommon games.
>>
>>All ideas and suggestions are most welcome!
>>TIA
>>Julie
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