I played a neat card game with some of my buddies at my BFF's kitchen table in uni once were you played cards that represented garbage, in order to race the others for who could build the tallest tower of trash.
Building blocks could be anything from a broken washing machine, a live monkey, or a big old canon to shoot at your opponents towers in an attempt to sabotage theirs.
It was very cool.
Edit: Maybe you were building the same tower... I don't recall it very well