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March 13, 2026
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Tomorrow, I am hosting a graduation party for myself! Woo! I am very excited. Basically, a group of my friends will come eat dinner and then we will play a collection of board and card games. It is rare for me to be able to actually put something like this together. Usually, when I try to make plans with a group of people, either half of them can't make it, or the whole event just doesn't happen. It can be very disheartening. But -- crossing my fingers, knock on wood -- tomorrow a plan is actually going to happen. This might sound silly to those of you who successfully plan things all the time. "What's this girl complaining about?" But this genuinely might be the first or second time I have pulled this off. I don't even care about what we end up playing at this point. I will just be happy when we are all here.

Speaking of, I do have some opinions on board games that I would like to share. This one is technically a card game, but I do not like playing Uno. I used to like it, but I think now it is just too chaotic for me. I also like and dislike the variable rules. I like that in concept a lot. I love playing be house rules on certain games. But in Uno, it never really gets established which rules we are playing by, so it just gets confusing if someone tries to, for example, "jump in" and we have to figure out if we allow that. But then there is always someone who's like, "well I didn't know we were jumping in. I would have been doing that the whole time," that the whole think just sort of feels unfair.

That being said, I really like classic Crazy Eights. Out of all the house rules you could apply to Uno, Crazy Eights has the ones I like by default. Its drawing rule is not quite "draw to match" but is more severe than "draw one." Placing multiple cards down makes sense and it could even hurt you depending on how you choose to lay them. Plus, the wild cards are static, so you don't have to worry about giving anything away by choosing a color[/suits]. This is a little diffierent than the regular set of rules, but it isn't game-breaking if I forget to mention it. Here is a link to my favorite website to play card games on if you want to try Crazy Eights for yourself.