Every Thursday afternoon I play Pass the Pigs and Pigmania with three Americans, a Canadian and a Brit.I have met the Canadian, one of the Americans and known the Brit a while. The Canadian has met one of the Americans but the Americans have never met each other. Are you confused yet?
We chat about so many different topics before the games start (NEVER politics, often our common language and confusion over meanings and obviously the weather!)
Pass the pigs is the British version (very viscious and requires tactics) Pigmania is the North American version (much kinder and uses luck).
The paler pigs here are modern, the darker ones are about 40 years old and went into hospital with me when in labour with #1 child ( they were not played with!)
Of our Piggies Group @grammyn seems to only win when her granddaughter visits and I do her scoring. @wakelys often throws 200+ in her goes for Pigmania. @randystreat started the group (I think) and knits or crochets between her goes. She can keep her score in her head and has records of games going back to The Pandemic. @mcsiegle has Welsh names for her piggies and treats them with the greatest respect. @summerfield NEVER WINS (but she does really often)
I so enjoy my Thursday afternoons, I try not to organise other events, or if on holiday I'll take my pigs with me so I don't miss out. I've played in Greece, on a couple of canal boat holidays and for real, in person with Mary and Sue in London.
@30pics4jackiesdiamond what a fabulous synopsis of our activities! Mary is actually the one that started the group, but everything else was so fascinating to read. It was also good to see your vintage pigs.
I would say that “known the Brit a while” seems a gross understatement of the fact. Just saying…
For clarification, Pigmania is not so much the North American version as the original, now vintage version which I believe did originate in North America. After the originator sold the game, it became Pass the Pigs and now that’s the only one that’s sold (though did someone say the Aussies and/or Kiwis have slightly different rules for Pass the Pigs?)
The reason that Pigmania seems like the NA version is that Kathy @randystreat and I both had that vintage game and the two of us together decided to play and roped Katy @grammyn in with a spare set of those old pigs. That was the only version of the game we knew until you and Sue @wakelys joined us with your Pass the Pigs oinkers. It took a lot of losing by us three Americans before Vikki @summerfield gifted us with Pass the Pigs and we could see clearly the redesigned pigs with the distinct advantages over the vintage pigs. The rules for PTP do make it a more challenging and more interesting game. But for old times sake we appreciate playing alternate games of both.
Great look at your pigs. I can see that even your vintage pigs are a big a your newer ones. (Mary's and mine aren't).
Since I'm one of the Americans, I look forward to Thursday mornings. I can't say anything more about the game and conversation, except we also swap recipes, book titles and knitting patterns. Oh wait. Politics are discussed when something really wild happens in one of our countries.
For clarification, Pigmania is not so much the North American version as the original, now vintage version which I believe did originate in North America. After the originator sold the game, it became Pass the Pigs and now that’s the only one that’s sold (though did someone say the Aussies and/or Kiwis have slightly different rules for Pass the Pigs?)
The reason that Pigmania seems like the NA version is that Kathy @randystreat and I both had that vintage game and the two of us together decided to play and roped Katy @grammyn in with a spare set of those old pigs. That was the only version of the game we knew until you and Sue @wakelys joined us with your Pass the Pigs oinkers. It took a lot of losing by us three Americans before Vikki @summerfield gifted us with Pass the Pigs and we could see clearly the redesigned pigs with the distinct advantages over the vintage pigs. The rules for PTP do make it a more challenging and more interesting game. But for old times sake we appreciate playing alternate games of both.
@mcsiegle I stand corrected
@summerfield nope, you never, ever win
@joansmor thanks
@365anne if we met for real in a cafe,veed be that annoying crowd of noisy, laughing women
@grammyn can't believe how grubby they are.
@lizgooster Liz, we have the best fun ☺️
Since I'm one of the Americans, I look forward to Thursday mornings. I can't say anything more about the game and conversation, except we also swap recipes, book titles and knitting patterns. Oh wait. Politics are discussed when something really wild happens in one of our countries.