Bunko

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Mrs. 6PC goes to a monthly Bunko game. I have never understood this game or how it is played.
Tonight Bunko was to be hosted at Casa De La 6PC.

I observed closely and I think I have figured out the rules.

First, the host borrows tables and chairs from family and friends and sets them up in the house.
Now I believe this is a diversionary tactic as they did not appear to ever actually be used for anything.

As another diversion Dad (Me) is ordered to read with the kids and get them cleaned up and in bed. This is the tricky part because I think a lot happens during this process but I missed most of it.

Now I come out to observe this "game" and it seems now the ladies (about 10 of them) gather in a circle standing around the kitchen. They circle several hors d'oeuvres moving from one to the next.

Now each of the women brings their own game piece. These game pieces all take the form of wine bottles; some red some white.

They seem to open the bottles in a sequence and pour the wine out into glasses. I think this is how you earn points.

When one bottle is empty, the first lady to jump in with another bottle and get it opened shares it with the other ladies.

I was riveted. I watched as one of the more advanced players threw them all for a loop by quickly dashing to the fridge and grabbing a beer and opening it. So for her turn, she drinks the beer and then has to say a secret phrase. Her phrase was "Do y'all recycle?" I think this is to distract the other players and put pressure in the host who has to quickly come up with the proper response which tonight was "Yes, but just set it aside and I will handle it"

This went on for several rounds and then like a flash the rules changed. Suddenly plates of brownies, muffins, cookies, and some praline looking things were strewn about replacing the area previously populated with cheese sticks, quiche, and spinach artichoke dip.

Now the cadence in the discussion dissolved into a rumble of discussions about the affect of aging on breasts, who is using what procedures to prevent more children, and how we should all sell our houses and move into the same neighborhood. I get the feeling that the game pieces were working when I heard that.

The last phase of the game involved wrapping up partial left-overs and critical thinking in the form of deciding which bottles of wine should remain and which would go back home with their original owners. From what I gather, almost all unopened game pieces go back home. Any game piece that it less than 2/3 full stays at the house with the host.

Then at 9:30 the final move was for all of the players to exit the house quickly amid discussions about how tomorrow is a work day and I promised my husband I would be home by 9:45.

I have processed this several times and have been unable to determine who won or what the actual point total was but I have this sneaking suspicion that bunko is not a real game at all.
I think they are actually playing a game I'm going to call Wine-o

At any rate, I need to hit the sack, I have a long game of Beerko tomorrow night with the guys.
 
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The part you missed while prepping the kids was the discussion session about current and ex husbands. Usually happens in one of the early innings of the game because it requires less imbibition to shed any inhibition for players to use the bat.
 
Bunco is a confidence game, sort of like 3 Card Monte. You use it to fleece suckers.
 
I am thinking the rules change significantly with no husband or kids in the house.
 
Seriously, I still don't even know if it is a card game or something they play with chalk and some sort of mallet.
They did nothing but drink and talk about girlie junk.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Seriously, I still don't even know if it is a card game or something they play with chalk and some sort of mallet.
They did nothing but drink and talk about girlie junk.
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girlie 'junk' or girlie junk? cause I sometimes talk about girlie 'junk' too...........
 
:D:D:D:D You are absolutely spot on about how the game is played, 6PC. (Trust me, I'm an insider).
 
eman1200 said:
girlie 'junk' or girlie junk? cause I sometimes talk about girlie 'junk' too...........
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Both :(
I learned their is some sort of spring they can have surgically put "in" to babyproof them.
Then the discussion about all the methods of population control were discussed.

I asked for visual evidence of these systems but got declined.
 
My wife played one time and didn't like the gossip side of it, the wine was good though. Around here the girls call it Drunko and I think that is a pretty accurate description from what I've heard. :rolleyes:
 
N747JB said:
My wife played one time and didn't like the gossip side of it, the wine was good though. Around here the girls call it Drunko and I think that is a pretty accurate description from what I've heard. :rolleyes:
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Thats funny. Texting this to my wife.
 
Sounds like they forgot the dice and the bell.

The actual "game" is like yahtzee, except the only thing matters is the 5 of a kind. They roll and roll and yell Bunko when they get one, and when the bell rings the next one rolls as many times as possible.

Most Bunko's and least Bunko's split the "prize".

Very much like a presidential primary in that it's arbitrary, mindless, and makes you wanna drink more between the bells.
 
Last night while I was grilling the burgers and dogs my wife had her church group over for bible study. Except for the wine, it sounded allot like Bunko.
 
around here the women have a group they call "women who wine", they get together somewhere and drink wine, the rest of what goes on is suspect and probably a closely guarded secret.
 
We used to call it the "***** and w(h)ine" session.
 
flyingron said:
We used to call it the "***** and w(h)ine" session.
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When Mom used to go meet a bunch if ladies and do cross stitch together, Dad always called it "stitch and *****" Sometimes actual seeing was done . . .
 
The suburban ladies version of TEGWAR. Does a Coney Island Thirty beat a natural Banjo?
 
Karen has confirmed that you've figured out the basic rules, but some of them are a secret and she isn't at liberty to share them. She mumbled something about " girl code ".

This game may also alternatively be titled, "Barbershop Quartet Rehearsal" and is typically held weekly at four alternating locations.

The main difference being that odd loud noises emanate forth from the ladies at random times throughout the evening. There is a special whistle used to indicate the start of this portion of play. Which is called a "pitch pipe".
 
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