Take It Easy
February 19, 2002 9:33 AM   Subscribe

Take It Easy An online version of the award-winning board game Take It Easy. The highest possible score is 307 -- what can you get?
posted by Shadowkeeper (26 comments total)
 
Unfortunately you will need IE 5.5+ to play this version, but if it doesn't work for you -- or if you just want to play the game head-to-head against your friends -- the actual board game has just been rereleased and is again available for purchase
posted by Shadowkeeper at 9:34 AM on February 19, 2002


141
posted by starvingartist at 9:40 AM on February 19, 2002


99.
Hanging head in shame.
posted by jacobw at 9:54 AM on February 19, 2002


149
posted by jeblis at 10:11 AM on February 19, 2002


cool, 212
posted by billder at 10:13 AM on February 19, 2002


143, barely.
posted by pooldemon at 10:15 AM on February 19, 2002


172 on the first try. I'll be sure to keep you all posted on my progress. Good game. Thanks, Shadowkeeper.
posted by glennie at 10:21 AM on February 19, 2002


Well, great...there goes any productivity I may have had today...
posted by byort at 10:39 AM on February 19, 2002


171
posted by riffola at 10:44 AM on February 19, 2002


err, 173 after half an hour
posted by carsonb at 11:14 AM on February 19, 2002


171 so far....
posted by briank at 12:55 PM on February 19, 2002


196
posted by krakedhalo at 1:19 PM on February 19, 2002


Oh great! A computer version of a board game I've never heard of!
posted by kindall at 1:21 PM on February 19, 2002


221 - but I can't see how you can ever score perfectly. It would be pure luck that you put the first tile in the correct spot.
posted by mikhail at 1:24 PM on February 19, 2002


144 so far. but a whole afternoon apparently awaits more attempts!
posted by whoshotwho at 1:36 PM on February 19, 2002


188, second game. Bookmarked it. Thank you, shadokeeper.
posted by scottymac at 1:39 PM on February 19, 2002


99.
Hanging head in shame.


Tell me about it, jacobw. I haven't even figured out how it works. ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:56 PM on February 19, 2002


Oh great! A computer version of a board game I've never heard of!

Now you've heard of it. Problem solved.

I haven't even figured out how it works

Full rules here, in case you're interested. In the original (board) game, everyone has their own board and set of identical 27 tiles. One person draws a tile at random, calls out the number, and everyone else finds their corresponding tile to place on the own board. This continues until the 19th tile is drawn (thus filling the boards) and highest score wins. Although the game is really multi-player solitaire (since there's no player interaction whatsoever), it's really more fun to play against others because everybody has the exact same opportunity to achieve the highest score, so any failure to win is due entirely to your own decisions. (This "head-to-head' aspect can be replicated with the online version. Play the game using seed number 55555 [five 5's] and report your first score -- no fair playing multiple times! I got 173, which I suspect is pretty good.)

I host a weekly gamenight and Take It Easy hits the table at least once a month. And since an entire game only takes, like, five minutes, we'll usually play 2-6 times in a row.
posted by Shadowkeeper at 2:18 PM on February 19, 2002


bah. 113. (with the quintuple 5.)

(my high was 191, but maybe I just got lucky.)
posted by fishfucker at 3:07 PM on February 19, 2002


152. That's two games after my first try of 99. I think I'll smile and quit at a possible peak.
posted by jacobw at 4:14 PM on February 19, 2002


188 on 55555.
Great game, shadowkeeper.
posted by Spork65 at 4:56 PM on February 19, 2002


224.
posted by peterbaer at 6:31 PM on February 19, 2002


224 also.
posted by bendy at 11:26 PM on February 19, 2002


187, second try after 21 or something similar.
posted by ODiV at 12:00 AM on February 20, 2002


215. Very fun.
posted by dness2 at 1:36 AM on February 20, 2002


214 on 55555
posted by MrMoonPie at 10:53 AM on February 22, 2002


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