Frankenstein the Crap out of It - Checker Board

When Dustin & I were dating, he had just returned from a mission in the Phillipines for two years.  One night, he sat me down with a sly look on his face and said he had a game to teach me.

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Him:  "It's called Dama"

Me:  "Dah-mah?  How do you play it?"

Him:  "Well, it's like checkers, but the king has the ability to jump the entire length of the board to jump one of the opposite players pieces.  It's really tricky, and don't worry if you don't win for a long time.  It took me forever to win a game."  (He then snickered.)

Me:  Well, okay, let's play.

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Two minutes later, the game was over and HE was the one with zero pieces to his name.  I can honestly say that I have never seen him more flabbergasted than he was in that moment.  (And then I snickered.)

We have continued to play Dama and he still gets flabbergasted as I continued to win.  ;)  Well, this summer we taught our kids and would you believe, they can beat him too?  So of course, I decided we needed a better checker board.  I nabbed one in need of love off of ebay (see before pic's above) and proceeded to, as my sister likes to call it, "Frankenstein the crap out of it."

The after:

I think if Frankenstein had gone with Turquoise instead of green, he might have been a bit more popular, don't you?

I ripped out the icky faux felt-velvet and all the walls on the inside, cleaned out the years of goo, and Dustin built a new structure for the inside.  (He's really an enabler, that one.)  I lined it with some real velvet in an oh-so-frankenstein worthy green.

I lurve it!

So this weekend I have a checklist of entertainment for you:

1)  Make sure to enter the giveaway of Mindy Gledhill goodness.

2)  Make sure to enter the Michael Miller Fabrics giveaway over here.  (You get to pick 5 yards of your favorite Michael Miller fabric!)  All you have to do is tell them your favorite MM print to date.  This seriously kept me awake in bed last night.  I still haven't decided but I think MM's Christmas prints are the best out there.

3)  Play Dama with a loved one.  The simple twist in the game really is fun.  :)  To refresh your memory:

The rules are exactly the same as checkers, but when you have a king (or SUPER as my kids call it) you can jump the entire length of the board to kill an opponent.  If you can't jump an opponent, the king piece moves as a regular king, one box at a time.

xo

Sandi

Comments

[Ginger]

This looks great! It went from snooze to fun times.

[Jamie]

What a great checkerboard box! So lovely and the storage portion is perfect!

[Amber]

wow - that is so gorgeous...what a beautiful Frankenstein :-)

[Annessa]

aweseom old board game..with many various pieces. I love the new look you gave it and applaud you for teaching our kids strategy games.

[Maggie M.]

Oh, Sandi girl...you never cease to amaze me...

[pat sloan]

well isn't THAT nifty! i never heard of that game...

[april]

I freakin love your franky checkerboard. Me wants one.

[RobertGU]

In retinue of Fanja well-born people consisted. Dressed in white silk, they drove about in chariots or slowly strolled, looking at all haughtily.
Having noticed Kaja with Shang-mountain, old and weak, with suntanned until black the person, in a dress and a cap completely not not found, all of them have concerned him contemptiously and have begun to scoff at it as soon as could: sneered, deceived him, beat, pushed, threw from one to another. But Kaj with Shang-mountain didn't become angry, spongers were tired, and their inventions were settled.
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The retinue of Fanja has accepted it for accident and not very much was surprised. And then someone, specifying in a whirlpool in a river bend, has again told:
- There - a precious pearl. Dive - you will find her.
Кай has again obeyed and has dived. Has come up, really, with a pearl.
Here all have become thoughtful, and Fan ordered to feed henceforth Kaja together with others meat and to dress him in silk.
But here in a treasury of Fanja the strong fire has flashed. Фань has told:
- You will manage to enter into fire, to rescue silk - all I will give to you to an award, how many you will pull out!
Кай, without fluctuating, has gone to a treasury, disappeared in a flame and again appeared, but fire didn't burn him, and soot didn't stick to him.
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- I don't have secret, - Kaj with Shang-mountain has answered. - whence it is my heart doesn't know. And still about one I will try to tell to you.
Recently two from you spent the night in my hut, and I heard, how they eulogized Fanja: he-de can destroy live and recover dead, rich to make the poor man, and poor - the rich man. And I have gone to him, despite a long journey for really at me doesn't remain other desires. When has come here, I trusted each your word. Without thinking neither of danger, nor that becomes with my body, was afraid to be only insufficiently betrayed, insufficiently executive. Only about one there were my thoughts, and nothing could stop me. That's all. Just now, when I have learned that you deceived me, in me doubts and alarms have risen, I began to listen and get accustomed to yours похвальбе. Has remembered the past: has had the luck not to burn down, not to sink - and from a grief, for fear me has gone hot, has captured a shiver. Unless I can to come nearer once again to water and a flame?
Since then удальцы Fanja didn't dare to offend beggars and коновалов on roads. Having met them, bowed, having descended from a chariot. Having learned about it, Tszaj In has informed Konfutsiju. Конфуций has told:
- Unless you don't know that the person full of belief, is capable to influence things, to touch the sky and the earth, gods and souls of ancestors, to cross the Universe from the east on the West, from the north on the south, from zenith to a nadir. Not only the precipice, a whirlpool or a flame - anything won't stop him. Kai with Shang-mountain has believed in lie, and anything hasn't prevented him. The it is more, when both parties искренни. Remember this, the young man!

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