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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:32:04 AM EST
Ticket To Ride was our intro out of the old mainstream games. Monopoly, Clue, Sorry have not been touched since we got into the new wave of games, Dominion, Catan, Splendor, Pandemic...
Great family time games... What are yours? |
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Grew up with stratego, backgammon, chess, checkers, yahtzee, skip-bo, etc
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Twilight Imperium was fun. Scattergories, Pictionary, etc are my shit.
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Grew up with stratego, backgammon, chess, checkers, yahtzee, skip-bo, etc View Quote Look up "Sovereign Chess" It is a two player board believe it or not but the way it works is, you start out with the typical black vs white but the sides have additional colors where as when one of your players lands on the corresponding color, you now summon those pieces to work for you, but if the opponent knocks you off that color, now HE runs that other color. Confusing at first but holy crap it is awesome when you get the knack of it, ETA the link to sovereign chess |
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Monopoly.
Clue. Wife doesn't do too well with Clue so that is a good one for me |
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Panzer Battles
Panzer Leader--& with supplemental 'gamettes' Highway to the Reich (a campaign game) and White Death--Velikiye Luki /r |
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Risk
Axis & Allies (all versions) Not much of a board game but we played anyway. D&D |
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Check out "Blockus".
Seriously fun game but only 2-4 people. Best with 4 people. |
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we play quarter shots, to see who runs the backhoe to bury the next loud mouth liberal in the family. the line of idiots next to the old D4 dozer in the back 40 been getting longer fast since Obama took office ..
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Murder in the Abbey
Dixit Cards Against Humanity Call of Cthulu Last Night on Earth |
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Off the top of my head right now:
Castles of Mad King Ludwig Splendor Power Grid The Arfcom of board games like this is boardgamegeek.com (iPad, no hotlink). They feature a highest-rated list that is very useful.mcomprehensive reviews, etc. ETA: setup is a nightmare (tons of components and takes up lots of table) but Arkham Horror is pretty cool. |
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Flashpoint Fire Rescue
King of Tokyo Splendour Telestrations 7 Wonders Red Dragon Inn Ghost Stories |
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Family games:
Clue Sorry Monopoly Jenga (wood boards make it a board game) Games with my dad and friends: RISK RISK RISK! Head to head games: Chess Fuck checkers Chess |
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Pandemic
Jamaica The Duke Tsuro X-wing: the miniatures game Ticket to ride Forbidden Island The Grizzled Star Wars: Imperial assault if you like dungeon crawlers. |
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Captain Sonar (!)
Dead of Winter Paperback Coup Love Letter Seriously get a copy of Captain Sonar and 7 friends. Pour everyone rum drinks. It's a 4v4 submarine game with no turns, you just move as fast as you can manage. Every player on a team has a different role - radio operator (sonar plotting), first mate, engineer, and captain. Bonus culture points for playing the entire game with a Scottish-Russian-Lithuanian accent and calling your first mate Vasily. Lots of screaming is involved, usually at your own team for screwing something up or breaking something on your own sub. Dead of Winter is really fun but I suggest playing without the betrayal mechanic, otherwise you will lose a friend in real life. |
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Juden Raus!
(disclaimer for autistic snowflakes- yes, it's a joke) |
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When I was a kid, I loved Squad Leader and Advanced Squad Leader. We played them even through my time in the Marine Corps. I remember loading them into our classified materials safes during Desert Shield/Storm to take them with us. Not too many converts, but the ones who played really got our monies worth. I lost them over the years
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Elder sign
Wiz war Ogre(sci fi tank/armor) 7 wonders and 7 wonders Duel The Others(one vs many with the heroes fighting the 7 deadly sins) Splendor Hero Realms Since about 1995 ish, there has been a strong resurgence of board games. Games like Clue, Monopoly, etc are long in the past, with a whole new approach to design with a slew of mechanics and themes. ETA: all of you who mentioned Fireball island, if you still have it with all the parts and in OK shape, it sells for $100+ now. A minty shape copy goes for $150 or more. |
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Off the top of my head right now: Castles of Mad King Ludwig Splendor Power Grid The Arfcom of board games like this is boardgamegeek.com (iPad, no hotlink). They feature a highest-rated list that is very useful.mcomprehensive reviews, etc. ETA: setup is a nightmare (tons of components and takes up lots of table) but Arkham Horror is pretty cool. View Quote Check out Eldritch Horror. It plays faster and has a lighter set up. |
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Besides the usual (Catan, Pandemic, Clue, Axis & Allies, Monopoly):
Betrayal at House on the Hill - great for a broad age range/board game interest level; probably my single favorite game Battlestar: Galactica - good game, but requires more time and interest to play. Game of Thrones board game - it's not IF you betray someone, but WHEN Firefly board game - good if you're a fan of the show |
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Tannhauser, Tyrants of the Underdark, Pandemic Cthulhu.
For TableTop wargames: X-Wing Miniatures, Tanks!, BattleTech, Golem Arcana, Warhammer 40K Card Games: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards, Munchkin RPGs: Pathfinder, DCC, D&D 3.5 |
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Collecting and playing ancient board games is a hobby of mine, some of the ones I play are around 5,500 years old. But for modern stuff, the kids and I like Monopoly, Life, Chess, All The King's Men (a simplified version of Chess), Lionheart (a very cool board game from the 80s I think, with knights and mercenaries and armies and stuff), Stratego, Clue, and a pretty rare game made about 30 years ago called The Roaring 20's (about gangsters and bank robbers). We also just got Walking Dead Risk which is turning out to be a pretty fun game. We have stacks of games in the closet, but those are the ones we play most often.
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Talk to me about this. I like the broad age range aspect. Is it a co op game or one winner? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Betrayal at House on the Hill - great for a broad age range/board game interest level; probably my single favorite game The short answer is "Yes". The game box says that it's for ages 12+, with 3-6 players. Essentially you start the game exploring a haunted house cooperatively with the other players (you turn over room tiles to make the house, and interact with different types of card-driven events in each room, so each game is different). Eventually, someone triggers "The Haunt"--the game crisis. Depending on what the scenario is (there are 50 different scenarios possible, plus an expansion that adds more), there could be one player who is the traitor, multiple players who become traitors, every man for himself, or everyone versus the game--so you could have one winner, multiple winners, or everyone could lose together. |
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Axis & Allies: any of it, even the defunct miniatures game
Risk, comes in lots of flavours too. Yummy Chess (greatest board game ever made IMO) Checkers, including Chinese version D&D (started off as tabletop anyway, still exists) Hero Quest Monopoly, teaches capitalism Battletech Car Wars Star Wars: Various -Imperial Assault latest Doom, the newest one |
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Currently these are the games the family usually wants to play:
Settlers Dominion Ticket to Ride (original and Europe, and Mega version) Alhambra Firefly - the Game |
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We're more into card games in our group.
Saboteur - work together as a group to build a path to the gold nugget. Saboteurs try to derail the path. Nobody knows eachother's identity resistance - work together to pass or fail missions. Spies know who everyone is. Nobody else knows. exploding kittens - don't draw the exploding kitten on your turn joking hazard - cyanide and happiness. Two comic panels are put down, players put down a card with a third panel down. Judge picks the funniest. Drunk Stoned or Stupid - judge draws a card with a trait on it. Players argue who would match the trait most. Player with most cards loses. |
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Kids are grown....but they grew up with "family game night"....as well as eating dinner at the table.
Played just about all of them listed. During my Navy time in the 80's....Risk was the big one all the guys liked to play, Axis and Allies with the right crew, and one called Fortress America, similar to Axis and Allies but with a red dawnish type theme. USA invaded on both coasts and from the south, had to maintain control of at least 13 cities. |
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We still play Sorry! and Monopoly when my son (late 20's) comes to visit. Also card games like Nuclear War, Water Works and Exploding Kittens.
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Kids are grown....but they grew up with "family game night"....as well as eating dinner at the table. Played just about all of them listed. During my Navy time in the 80's....Risk was the big one all the guys liked to play, Axis and Allies with the right crew, and one called Fortress America, similar to Axis and Allies but with a red dawnish type theme. USA invaded on both coasts and from the south, had to maintain control of at least 13 cities. View Quote A new edition of that game was issued by Fantasy Flight Games a few years back. Good fun! |
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Check out Eldritch Horror. It plays faster and has a lighter set up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Off the top of my head right now: Castles of Mad King Ludwig Splendor Power Grid The Arfcom of board games like this is boardgamegeek.com (iPad, no hotlink). They feature a highest-rated list that is very useful.mcomprehensive reviews, etc. ETA: setup is a nightmare (tons of components and takes up lots of table) but Arkham Horror is pretty cool. Check out Eldritch Horror. It plays faster and has a lighter set up. Awesome--I will do that tomorrow, which is our bi-weekly board game night. Thanks for the tip. Also, while I'm posting, here are a few more for the OP off the top of my head in no particular order: Suburbia Lords of Waterdeep Fresco Gates of Lo Yang Imhotep |
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