games and personality

im wondering here if there exist any studies of how we choose specific board games depending of our personality.

i always have an idea of a person when i see what games he/she prefers. here are some examples;

chess (any variant); these are people that are very obsessed on projecting to people that they are extremely significant and many of them are very one minded. they dont bathe well and usually smell bad.

go; these are very open people. they are very flexible to changes..and even they drive for changes. great lovers and passionate. many of them are atheists and are very individualistic. sometimes they dont brush their teeth ... because they are so radical.

backgammon; they love adventure and are very courageous even in the unknown. they can be very religious. they love to be naked.

diplomacy (and any of its variants); they are loners. intellectuals...but bad intellectuals which tend to be annoying. most of them hate life and are very pessimistic. in their political views they can go EXTREMELY either way; conservative or liberal. they use viagra.

dvonn; these are friendly people. they prefer beer more than anything and love their pizza. they are very hedonist. for some strange reason they prefer to use public transportation more than anything.

card game players; calm people. very gentle in their actions. their values are conservative and are very family oriented. they have small genitalia.

othello; they are extremely variant in their moods, almost bipolar. you cannot define them easy because they are always changing. many of them wind up in a mental institution.

yinsh; liars, a farse, copycats, chameleon like, not very trust worthy. they tend to conform.

other games; normal people, almost boring. they can be very manipulated. they go to war for their country and go every sunday to church when they really want to stay home watching a futbol game. their food is very insipid and their respective spouses cheat on them. they become dentist and if they see a gun they have suicidal toughts.

this is my try to define personality and board gamers.

feel free to add.

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I think this tells us more about how you feel about these games ....

lol yea....

i think all of the characteristics you wrote are negative...any reason of y that may be?

only negative thinkers think of others in a negative point of view...

i, on other hand, am very optimistic and always think positively even in the worst scenario

lighten up a bit!

oh and to add to ur personality list, it greatly depends on the social environment

i dont know y u even made this thread

i even bet that this personality category may be true like 10% only or even less, so i seriously dont understand how can u characterize people based on 2-year madeup categories that has no logic behind it whatsoever

2 year old kids' madeup*

lol...

1 more thing to add up

based on ur so called category of personality, i can easily tell that u must play games that dont involve logic...since u seem to lack one

ahhh just checked ur game profile...u suck at all games...wow!

pitirre, your essay reads like a horoscope.

No opinions about Hex?

Hee. Relax, folks! I thought it was funny... but maybe because I play Go, and I'm awful at Chess and Diplomacy. :)

hex; these kind of players likes to go to public restrooms to find "love". they like to debate and don't know how to stop a discussion til they find a way to win. they are good on math but lousy in the kitchen

Ha ha ha.

I liked it. In this politically correct world it is always a joy when people write barefaced and funny. Some time ago I enjoyed pitirre's blog. I recomend it to Spanish readers.

Hilarious! I often claim that Dvonn's my favourite game here, so let's see what that says about me.

dvonn; these are friendly people. they prefer beer more than anything and love their pizza. they are very hedonist. for some strange reason they prefer to use public transportation more than anything.

Replace pizza with curry or other spicy foods, and you've hit the nail on the head. So I'm guessing that they're also accurate for all the other games too.

Thnx for the hex addition pitirre!

Please, please, add Dots and Boxes!

Perhaps fitay moun tera might then appreciate your humour :)

i dont find made-up facts halarious, any stupid 2 year old kid can make it up... anyways, that last line of urs ypercube i found it halarious, lol (a joke u wont get cause it actually means something really funny in some other language)

Eh, the traits do seem to apply somewhat. I think people are getting sore at the ones that hit too close to home. :)

dots & boxes; these kind of players lack a sense of humour but not because they just simply dont care for them BUT because they have a retrogade mind. After a night of fun of dots & boxes they go to their home and stare to the wall. they drink a lot of prune juice while listening to new age and most of them are an accountant.

haha very funny NOT, even though i didnt find any of ur lame jokes funny, the rest part of D&B players personality u totally got it wrong, so as much as u want to try to sound "funny", ur retarded 2 year old's game is pretty lame

Maravilhoso :) Now, i understand why I love to play Chess, Go and Dvonn... but how about Game of Empathy? What's the characteristic?

I hate games, they haunt me :(

Hmmm, what was the trait of the last guy with a 100% win record?

ch...allenging, nope, can't be, as you're guaranteed to lose

ch...eerful, nope, clearly from the above gibbering

ch...aste, well, we have no evidence the lack of that is personal choice

Oh, I give up!!!

How have the StreetSoccer players remained unheralded for so long?

game of empathy; remember the kids at school that used to get beat up by others, especially bullies... well, those kids are now grown up and now they play game of empathy.

these kind of players are extremely annoying. they just don't shut up. most of them have never kiss a woman... not even their mothers would kiss them. they believe that the tale of adam and eve is true, and their hands are always sticky.

I would have less trouble believing the tale of adam and eve if the apple had been offered by a koala.

now THERE's something we can dissect. :D

why a koala?

CF thinks koalas do the work of the devil. Or maybe he just wants to change the topic before pitirre gets around to caricaturing Havannah players. :)

what about twixt players? and for those that dont find it funny, why even bother replying to this thread?

Well, this is Kobus, my burmese python.

Imagine him holding an apple in his mouth and try to find out how many women would give accepting it a shot.

Now try the same with a cute little koala holding the apple ...

twixt; these kind of players are hard headed. they can only understand the world by direct experience. they love to read about city planification so much that they abandon their responsibilities at work and that is why they are always behind. the only reason they are not fired of their jobs is because they are good organizers of office parties. they love to eat cheetos.

streetsoccer; these kind of players are dreamers. when they were at high school they used to be very active and athletic...now they get dizzy by climbing a few stairs and they have a huge belly. their thighs are so fat they cant avoid urinate themselves. they have a strange tradition of painting their faces on every sport event they attend and they can get to a fight very easy. they refuse to use viagra because they think is gay.

Christian: Perhaps women thought the snake was the cutest and most adoring of all animals BEFORE the episode with the apple, and their fear and hatred for these animals has come as a RESULT of this? :-)

Ah, that makes sense :) Now why should they love apples ;-)

maybe the snake is too much a phalic symbol which women detest

Why they should love apples? I thought that was obvious after God said: "You can eat anything in this garden EXCEPT that apple!". I mean - what would you expect :-)