I Thread to discus and show off your favorite board games! I'll get this started.I like Ticket to Ride a lot but my housemate are more Arkham Horror.
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Not pictured, Ascension, the pokemon board game, 12 ceasers, and anti-monopoly
My favorites are Ticket to Ride and king of Tokyo.
Games I am no longer allowed to play, Game of Thrones, Axis and Allies, and Diplomacy.
Ooh ooh ooh has anybody heard of Escape: Curse of the Temple? One of my favorite board games ever, it's a time-based cooperative dealio with tons of stress in the best way. Work together like a well oiled machine to escape the randomly organized temple... or not!
Also, not exactly a board game, but Dominion is my favorite deck-builder out there. Strategic luck based systems, away!
And finally, Betrayal at House on the Hill. Ooooh man, that's the best. It's basically a cooperative RPG set in a haunted manor, with different scenarios occuring each time. Also very tense, but one of the best games I've ever played with friends.
*sinks back into lurkerdom*
DOMINION, yes!!!. Also I got fond of zombiecide despite it taking several hours to (Was it Zombiecide... ah, no, we played Dead of winter a few weeks ago. (But there are zombies too.)mostly loose) against the virtual opponent there.
hmmm we have plenty of board games. I really liked playing risk once, though I have to confess I mostly lossed early.
Have any of you played Tsuro? You sort of ... create your own path on a grid, but all the tiles have lots of different paths and it's easy to go off the edge and die. You;re trying to be the last one standing, but people usually can't screw each other over much. Also the second one, Tsuro of the Seas, has sea-monsters that move around the board eating you. It's hard to describe.It remembers me Ta Yü :)
I mostly play traditional board games, Chess, Go, chess variants…
I've even made my own chess variant.
I love the game Munchkins! It... doesn't always have a board, but it's kind of like simplified D+D and it's very fun, I recommend, a+
I love the game Munchkins! It... doesn't always have a board, but it's kind of like simplified D+D and it's very fun, I recommend, a+Ooh, yeah, we have a copy of Space Munchkin and it's loads of fun.
Have any of you played Dixit? It's sort of like dictionary-game but with pictures. It's also not language-dependent, which is cool.Yes ! *Raises a hand* I was a gift to one of the teachers who always come at home the wednesday afternoon *Lives with teachers* It's funny and easy to play :)
Also, not exactly a board game, but Dominion is my favorite deck-builder out there. Strategic luck based systems, away!
And finally, Betrayal at House on the Hill. Ooooh man, that's the best. It's basically a cooperative RPG set in a haunted manor, with different scenarios occuring each time. Also very tense, but one of the best games I've ever played with friends.
*sinks back into lurkerdom*
I love both of those! Has any one played any of the add-ons for dominion?I love Dominion too! My cousin owns most of the add-ons and it's always lovely to figure out different strategies for each. Oh, another board game that's really fun is chinese chess, I played it with my family since young and it's really really cool and has lots of different strategies.
Betrayal is so much fun. One of my friends owns it, and I wish he would bring it around more often.
Wow! What kind of variant?
On the vein of Chinese games, who here has played actual Mahjong? (Legend of Koizumi references welcome)
On the vein of Chinese games, who here has played actual Mahjong? (Legend of Koizumi references welcome)*raises hand*
Have any of you played Tsuro? You sort of ... create your own path on a grid, but all the tiles have lots of different paths and it's easy to go off the edge and die. You;re trying to be the last one standing, but people usually can't screw each other over much. Also the second one, Tsuro of the Seas, has sea-monsters that move around the board eating you. It's hard to describe.
I mostly play traditional board games, Chess, Go, chess variants…
I've even made my own chess variant.
Have you ever tried the game "The Duke" ??? It's like chess but much more complicated. I love it. :)
Games I've played: Zombicide...
On that note the store i work at now has pandemic.....if only i had money......
I haven't tried it; looking at it, I don't know if I would like it —I tend to like game with simpler rules (provided they're set in such a way as to leave a lot of room for tactical/strategic complexity).
While I'm not normally a massive fan of board games, I really feel like I should stop by and leave a reccomendation for a game called Android: Netrunner (https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/android-netrunner-the-card-game/). It's a two-player game set in a cyberpunk future, where one player plays a mega-corp defending their assets and the other player is a hacker trying to blow the lid off the corporate conspiracies. So if you like cyberpunk aesthetics, and pleasingly asymmetric gameplay, I'd really reccomend you give it a try!ANR thoroughly seconded. As far as board games, I have been running rounds of Mansions of Madness recently, Munchkin is a family favourite and Fluxx is getting up there.
(Not sure if this technically counts as a board game, but hey...)
The world almost ended seventy-one years ago. A virulent plague came out of nowhere and ravaged the world. For three generations, small groups of survivors have struggled to keep the world alive. Operating from floating stations known as “havens,” they have maintained a loose network of the largest cities by delivering supplies to the mainland. But their efforts are no longer enough. Cities are falling off the grid and supplies are running low. The world needs a group of heroes to emerge and lead it through this crisis.Sound familiar, hmmm?
The "legacy" aspect sounds fun on paper, but it really rubs against my instinct of keeping my games in good condition; at worst, even if a game can only be played once because it's plot-driven and spoiler-ladden, I still prefer to be able to "reset" it, because then I can sell it or give it to someone else.
Maybe I'll do an exception for Charterstone if I find people to play it with, because I really like the designer of that game, but it remains to be seen.
I get that. I'm wondering if there's a crossover between people who want to be able to reset board games and people who refuse to dog-ear their books...? :)
The Mad Magazine Game is a great game! It's kinda like Monopoly but you have to lose all your money to win and it contains some physical activites like changing seats(not taking with your money), jump and try to stay in the air for 30sec etc.That sounds like fun! Does it feature illustrations by "the usual gang of idiots"?
A goofy game for goofy friends/people.
That sounds like fun! Does it feature illustrations by "the usual gang of idiots"?I believe it is
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