#Mensch ärgere Dich nicht

[schadenfreudich]

Girl, who only knows one game: That's my favorite game.

[ijustwantedtoresetmypassword]

@kluntjekandis

[apfel07]

All I've been thinking about since yesterday is:

Journalist at a press conference where only football related things have been asked: "Could you tell us your favourite and least favourite thing about each other?"

Baumgartner: "He's very open to helping people and he's just a great guy. Love talking to him. He's on his phone too much sometimes."

Gregoritsch: "I love listening to him talk, he has great opinions. But he plays Mensch ärgere dich weird. I mean his fault if he looses."

[plutobutartsy]

headcanons for the shaw pack playing the best (worst) german board game of all time: Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht

this is so so self indulgent the target audience is literally only me because i don't think i've ever seen another german redacted fan lol but still

first, here are the rules

this is the board

you play with a max of 4 players. everyone is a different colour and has 4 pieces. you start the game with all of your pieces in your corner of the board (where the B is). at the start of the game, you get three chances to roll the die, if you roll a 6 you get to put one of your pieces into the game on the circle with the A that's in the same color as your pieces.

for the entirety of the game, whenever you roll a 6, you get to put another piece into the game AND you get to roll again. once you have a piece in the game, you move it according to the numbers you roll every turn. if you have multiple pieces in the game you get to choose wich one you move. you move the pieces clock wise.

the goal of the game is to move all your pieces around the entirety of the board once so you can put them in your "house" (the four circles titled a, b, c and d). whoever achieves that first wins. the tricky part is that to get a piece into your house, you have to roll the exact number to get in, i.e. if you have a piece right in front of the house and you roll anything higher than a 4, you can't put your piece in. that means the more pieces you have in your house and the closer you are to winning, the trickier it gets so you can guess the kind of anger and frustration this causes :)

but we're not even at the fun part yet because you can SABOTAGE other players by "throwing out" their pieces. for example if another player's piece is 3 spots in front of yours and you roll a 3, you can take the place of that piece and the other player has to put it back in their corner of the board and they can't put it back into the game unless they roll another 6 :). that means whenever two players' pieces are close to each other paranoia sets in :)

the game is so simple yet the fights i've seen break out because of it are marvelous <3

this is also very ironic because Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht loosely translates to "man don't get angry"

okay onto the headcanons

the pack get together and play the dreaded game at every chance they get and they almost never finish it because of how pissed everyone gets while playing

asher is THE sniper in this game. TRUST he will get your pieces and throw them out. if he has to choose between getting one of his pieces into his house or throwing out one of yours, he will always choose to be a menace.

his #1 targets are david and milo

milo takes it very personally. one time after a game where asher really went in on milo, he wouldn't talk to asher for a week and a half. he considers his little guys being thrown out the greatest offense and betrayal.

asher jokes that it's because milo relates to the pieces so much since they're "the same size as him"

david is the type of player that makes it fairly peacefully around the board UNTIL he's about to put one of his pieces into his house. THAT'S when his bad luck strikes and his piece gets sniped.

david also argues that it's "stupid" that he has to roll the exact number to get into his house

"why can't i put it in my house if i roll a 5 that makes no sense if i'm ABLE to take 5 steps why can't i just CHOOSE to only take 4-"

he's very annoying about it

angel is that person who initially rarely rolls a 6 so it takes them FOREVER to even get into the game but once they're in? oh boy you basically already lost

their win comes out of nowhere

baaabe and sweetheart form a coalition. they agree to not throw each other out.

that agreement goes out of the window when one of them is close to winning.

their main goal is to take out asher. milo is VERY happy about them working together.

that is, until they team up on him

then he's inconsolable

sweetheart rolls pretty high numbers which is great until they try to get into their house, then the constant 5s get very depressing

baaabe is the opposite, they roll mostly 2s and 3s so it takes them forever to get around the board but once they make it, they get their pieces into their house pretty quickly

sam just doesn't understand the rules at first

"why can't i put my piece in my house, 6 is enough isn't it?" cue david, "THATS WHAT I'M SAYING-"

but once he plays for a bit he gets the hang of it and he honestly enjoys it quite a lot

he's half of the reason why the pack still plays it together despite all of the fights, he just visibly has so much fun playing

yes i also headcanon that EVERYONE in the shaw pack has a soft spot for him. and i'm right.

darlin only plays for two reasons: 1) to make sam happy and 2) to bully asher

it is a fight to the DEATH between them and asher, you don't get it.

they either hurl every insult in the book at each other or it is dead silent. you only hear furious dice rolling. no inbetween for these two.

for that reason asher and darlin aren't allowed to play against each other unless both sam and david are there as mediators.

the only time darlin and ash aren't at each other's throats while playing is when they team up on christian or david.

christian almost never rolls a 6 so he barely ever manages to get into the game. but on the off chance that he does, he immediately gets sniped by ash or darlin

christian no longer plays Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht.

[sadpurpleblood]

fun fact: the german equivalent to the board game sorry is called "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht". literally "man, don't get angry". and i think the contrast in tone between the two is really funny.

[peonierose]

Tag game: what games do you play? List them and tag 5 people who's answer you are curious about!

Thank you so much for the tag @aria-ashryver and @renninflight

I‘m not much of a gaming person, well when it comes to video games 😅 (I don’t play Xbox or PlayStation 🙈)

Though I have some Mobile games I play:

Kitchen Scramble (I love cooking games)

Garden Affairs

Modern Community

Adventure Escape (I love this game so much, it’s super fun to solve riddles)

Other games:

Puzzles - I love to do puzzles and I’ve got this puzzle with 1,000 pieces I‘m trying to finish. It’s the Little Mermaid puzzle from Disney 😍

Parcheesi - (or as we say in German - Mensch ärgere dich nicht). My dad and I love to ply that or dominoes. That’s fun too.

I’ll tag:

@aallotarenunelma @inlocusmads @cadybear420 @liviusofpella @noesapphic

And anyone who wants to, please feel free to join I’d love to see what games you’re playing 🩷🥰

[soundsofastar]

You died but Death gives you one last chance to return to the living. If you defeat her in a game, you live. The thing is - you decide what you're playing. What are you picking? /@i-send-you-random-asks

Only germans will get this one/j

a good ol’ round of mensch ärgere dich nicht. I’m inviting life and zeus

[theemporium]

Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht is literally the game that breaks friendships. When I was a child I hated playing bc lmao I'm a sore loser, I flipped that board so many times and even to this day this game brings out the worst in me.

oh bless😭😭😭😭

[nicki1505]

24.12.2023

Merry Christmas! 🎄❤️

Das erste Weihnachten nicht zuhause. Irgendwie ein komisches Gefühl.

So richtig Weihnachtsstimmung kommt hier nicht auf, es ist einfach zu warm.

Wir haben schön ausgeschlafen und lecker gefrühstückt. Dann gabs die Bescherung. Viel natürlich ein bisschen kleiner aus als sonst 🎁

Nun wollten wir einen neuen Versuch wagen und zum Leuchtturm wandern. Das Wetter war nicht ideal, aber es war nur bewölkt und ein bisschen drückend.

Auf dem Weg entdeckten wir direkt das 1. Highlight. Ein Koala im Baum 🐨

Ein bisschen weiter am Strand direkt das nächste: eine Schlange 🐍

Wunderschön diese Tiere!

Direkt daneben war ein Aussichtspunkt, na den lassen wir uns natürlich nicht entgehen. 👀

Der Weg führte nun an der Küste entlang, als es langsam zu tröpfeln begann. 🌧️

Erstmal das Regencape anziehen und weiter geht’s… es wurde leider immer schlimmer und wir beschlossen uns unterzustellen. Die Zeit können wir uns mit spielen vertreiben.

Steffen hatte Mensch ärgere dich nicht auf dem Handy und so spielten wir zwei Runden. Durch den Regen wurde es ziemlich kalt, deshalb machten wir uns auf den Rückweg.

Im Apartment angekommen, haben wir erstmal heiß geduscht #herrlich und die nächsten Tage umgeplant. Zwecks Unterkunft wollten wir nun nichts mehr dem Zufall überlassen 🛌

Endlich scheint wieder die Sonne! Mel und Aldi sind nochmal schwimmen gegangen und Steffen und ich sind noch bisschen durch die Stadt geschlendert.

Abends gab es Reste von gestern und Videocalls mit der Family 😍

[mel1505]

24.12.2023 Merry Christmas! 🎄✨♥️ Das erste Weihnachten nicht zuhause. Irgendwie ein komisches Gefühl. So richtig Weihnachtsstimmung kommt hier nicht auf, es ist einfach zu warm. Wir haben schön ausgeschlafen und lecker gefrühstückt. Dann gab es auch schon die Bescherung. Viel natürlich ein bisschen kleiner aus als sonst 🎁 Nun wollten wir einen neuen Versuch wagen und zum Leuchtturm wandern. Das Wetter war nicht ideal, aber es war nur bewölkt und ein bisschen drückend. Auf dem Weg entdeckten wir direkt das 1. Highlight. Einen Koala ganz oben im Baum 🐨 Ein bisschen weiter am Strand direkt das nächste: eine Schlange 🐍 Wunderschön diese Tiere! Direkt daneben war ein Aussichtspunkt, na den lassen wir uns natürlich nicht entgehen. 👀 Der Weg führte nun an der Küste entlang, als es langsam zu tröpfeln begann. 🌧️ Erstmal das Regencape anziehen und weiter geht’s… es wurde leider immer schlimmer und wir beschlossen uns unterzustellen. Die Zeit konnten wir uns mit spielen vertreiben. Steffen hatte Mensch-ärgere-dich-nicht auf dem Handy und so spielten wir zwei Runden. Durch den Regen wurde es ziemlich kalt, deshalb machten wir uns auf den Rückweg. Im Apartment angekommen, haben wir erstmal heiß geduscht, da wir alle nass waren und die nächsten Tage umgeplant. Zwecks Unterkunft wollten wir nun nichts mehr dem Zufall überlassen. 🛌 Am Nachmittag schien endlich wieder die Sonne! ☀️ Andi und ich sind nochmal schwimmen gegangen und Steffen und Nicki sind noch ein bisschen durch die Stadt geschlendert. Abends gab es Reste von gestern und Videocalls mit der Family 😍

[unfug-bilder]

Vorrat für euren Meme-Ordner

Und immer gilt: Mensch ärgere dich nicht (zu sehr)

[bluecoolr]

just thought of a question to get those gears in your pretty lil head (with big brain) turning

Todd siblings, boardgame night edition - aka how would they be when playing games? obviously, there's Monopoly (or, the devil in board game form, probably), stuff like Uno (once played it in a group of 6 or 7 and. it was. an experience), and idk what other games you can play with so many people. ummm... we used to have a version of "Mensch ärgere dich nicht" (In English it's called "Sorry!" I think) that was for five or six players (the layout therefore wasn't a square but same principle)

idk i just wanna know what a family game night at the Todd's looks like ;D

Cylas my darling you come up with the most fun questions 💙💙💙 I love board games! God I miss playing with a lot of people 😔😔 Hopefully this blurb offers some good vibes after the events told in Dead Man Walking and Where am I? 😬

Todd Siblings Game Night

"Family Fun Night" always spirals into chaos. I like to think Susannah's the one who arranges game nights, complete with snacks and drinks.

When playing Monopoly, Nathan and Judah are both aggresively competitive.

Their insults are creative - "You goddamn heretical Gentile!" "Where'd you learn to count? Sodom and Gomorrah?" "You pay me right now, Judas!" "Filthy fuckin' swamp rat..." "Greedy bloated goat."

They tend to kick each other under the table.

Nathan thinks he has the best strategy. In reality, Darrell's ths one that has them all by the balls. He buys out all the train stations and makes the best underhanded deals but nobody realizes.

Salome's not really that good of a player. She doesn't want to pay anyone becaus she likes looking at the colors of the money and won't let them go.

They just sit her aside and have her be the "banker", "realtor", and "card reader".

As much as Darrell and Susannah try to be calm and reasonable with him, they still end up yelling.

Judah... doesn't really understand the rules so well. He insists you can't increase rent without due notice and why is he going to jail - he did nothing wrong!

Salome once read out a card that told the players to grab the cash in the air. Nathan - overeager and most likely too thrilled to one-up his siblings - went ahead and raked the money that fell on the tabletop, much to his siblings' anger.

Nobody ever wins Monopoly. They all just collectively decide that they've had enough screaming and fighting for the night.

Uno's pretty much the same.

Nathan is ruthless. He will do everything he can to win.

Needless to say Salome has cried numerous times during game night.

Nathan has tried to strangle Judah.

Darrell was once so insulted that he tackled Nathan.

Susannah was left in tears because why can't they just be a normal family?

They do however enjoy something so simple as charades.

Nathan's too sure of himself and stubborn.

One time Darrell was acting out "building" and Nathan just kept yelling "BRICKS!" without compromise. Needless to say they lost.

Susannah's the best at acting out.

There's a lot of laughter and teasing nonetheless and they all have fun even though it gets so extreme.

Salome's great at guessing, being the more observant sibling.

Sometimes they play cards or chess or checkers or snakes and ladders.

Nathan hates Scrabble because he doesn't know a lot of "fancy words".

I do however would like to be in the room when they play Crocodile Dentist 🤣

When they wind down after a game, just drinking sweet tea or lemonade and munching on the last of the food, they recount all the funny things that happened.

And they say goodnight to each other without fail.

[plutobutartsy]

headcanons for the solaire clan playing the best (worst) german board game ever: Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht (part 2)

here is part 1 with the shaw pack and also where i explained the rules. but if you don't feel like reading all that, apparently it's pretty much just the german version of Sorry.

onto the headcanons

as mentioned before, Sam really likes this game so he's also the one to introduce the clan to it

when he did, Darlin saw their life flash before their eyes. they're so SICK of this game y'all

they still play for Sam, of course, but if you look closely you can see their eyelid twitch and their smile start to falter

they do their best to pretend that they're enjoying it

Sam pretends not to know but he does

Vincent and Bright Eyes have a bet going on to see how long Darlin can keep it up

so far the clan is at 46 games and Darlin has yet to crack

when Sam first brought it up William was DELIGHTED

he's a big board game fan

name a board game and he has it

so of course he also has multiple versions of Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht

so he's also pretty experienced with board games. you think it's impossible to come up with elaborate strategies to win MÄDN? think again

is so serious about it, it's ridiculous

but he still has a lot of fun and isn't a sore loser

clan game night has actually been a mandatory monthly event since Vincent was turned, Will insists the clan needs "family bonding time"

Vincent absolutely hated it at first, especially during his angsty vamp teen phase

but he gradually came to enjoy it

he insists he's the master of all board games but god does he suck most of the time

when playing MÄDN he has two game modes:

1) he loses to Lovely on purpose because they "deserve the world", this means he purposefully tries to roll low numbers so Lovely can catch up to him and throw out his pieces. gets sulky if anyone else does.

and 2) he gets really competitive after being egged on by Bright but he loses anyway and pouts about it

Lovely is Always competitive. they don't care if it's their boyfriend and he's doing his best to help them win, they will throw his pieces out without mercy

of course they use Vincent being all sulky as an excuse to kiss him and engage in heavy pda. the clan is sick of it.

Bright is THE instigator. they love putting everyone against each other, it's their strategy

B: "what, so you're just gonna let Vinny snipe your piece like that, Fred?"

F: "well it wasn't that far along the board yet anyway, it's not a huge loss."

B: "wow, never knew you where such a push-over, see if that was me.."

F: "STOP. i know what you're doing, it's not gonna work."

B: "yeah, okay, whatever, go lose the game then"

V: "yeah, you couldn't beat me if you tried."

F: "okay you knOW WHAT-"

it works every single time and they find it hilarious

one time they even managed to pit Will against everybody else

they're part of how Darlin stays sane playing this god forsaken game. at least as long as Bright doesn't antagonize them

Fred is just trying to play the game normally, he doesn't understand why it always turns to utter chaos

it's "just a game" until Bright uses their instigator skills, then it's life or death for him

once furiously swore at Will because of it and was immediately mortified and embarrassed. Fred didn't play MÄDN at the next game night

Alexis insists that it's dumb and childish but sits down to play it anyways

she (not so) secretly loves it

just like Lovely, she gets incredibly competitive

she's pretty much the only one besides Will who doesn't fall for Bright's tricks

if she and Darlin were to play alone they would kill each other (affectionately)

on the rare chance Alexis isn't playing to obliterate everyone, she's playing to harrass Vincent

just completely zeroes in on him

watches him like a hawk to make him nervous while he's rolling the die, trying to get a 6 so he can put another piece in the game and when he inevitably doesn't roll one she just laughs at him

snipes all the pieces he intended for Lovely to throw out and jokes about how Lovely could do so much better and "marry somebody who's ACTUALLY good at playing Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht"

sometimes Lovely goes along with the jokes and Vincent has yet to know a greater betrayal

overall the solaire clan doesn't play with as much brutality as the shaw pack but the passive agressiveness is INSANE

@super-trouper-lights i promised i would tag you 🤭

[batlleonafc]

The game kind of looks like fia med knuff

It is similar in Switzerland we call that game "Mensch ärgere dich nicht" or "Eile mit weile", the main difference is that you play it with pokercards and not with a dice. Also you play as a Team and exchange one card before every round. Once you have all your marbles in the endzone you help your partner so they can move theirs to their endzone too. The dice you can see in the picture is that you don't forget how many cards have been dealt in the round, you start at 6 and the amount of cards decreases every round until you're down to two cards dealt, then you go back to 6. I think Brändi Dog is similar to Partners but i've never played Partners so idk😅

[dracolunae]

Mensch, Ärger dich nicht supremacy 🤝

It fits the vibes of the game much more than “Sorry”. No one says sorry when they play Mensch ärgere dich nicht, people only get mad and passive aggressively slam their little players back into the home field while sending death glares across the table

[theemporium]

There's a boardgame named Mensch ärgere dich nicht and oh, does it bring worst in people to show. It is ruthless.

I’m intrigued