Board Game Thread!

[LadyRamkin]

I Thread to discus and show off your favorite board games! I'll get this started.


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.

[Mélusine]

I Thread to discus and show off your favorite board games! I'll get this started.


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.

I like Ticket to Ride a lot but my housemate are more Arkham Horror.
I dislike games when you have to play against all the others, so the cooperatives one are the best for me. (Ticket to Ride is... different. It had something.)

[LadyRamkin]

I tend to get way hyper competitive. but yeah tickets special in that it doesn't set me off at all.

[Adrai Thell]

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*

[kjeks]

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 (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.

[Mélusine]

DOMINION, yes!!!. Also I got fond of zombiecide despite it taking several hours to (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.

Was it Zombiecide... ah, no, we played Dead of winter a few weeks ago. (But there are zombies too.)

[Noodles]

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.

[Hrollo]

I mostly play traditional board games, Chess, Go, chess variants…

I've even made my own chess variant.

[Curry]

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+

[Mélusine]

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

[Sunflower]

I mostly play traditional board games, Chess, Go, chess variants…

I've even made my own chess variant.

Wow!  What kind of variant?

[SectoBoss]

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. 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!

(Not sure if this technically counts as a board game, but hey...)

[Russet]

Ooh, I'm a fan of Scrabble and Settlers of Catan myself, but I'd like to introduce the wonderful board game of Puerto Rico, where there's a lot of strategy involved, and a pinch of luck! 

[kjeks]

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+

EEEH Munchkin, we only have one munchkin (I think conan?) but uuuuh gotta get more of them.

Melusine to answer your question:
http://zombicide.com/en/zombicide

[Noodles]

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.
I forgot to say this earlier, but I second (third? fourth?) the reccomendation for Dominion, I love it to bits.

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.