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Posted: 2/12/2017 1:32:04 AM EST
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Grew up with stratego,  backgammon, chess, checkers, yahtzee, skip-bo, etc
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:35:45 AM EST
[#2]
Twilight Imperium was fun. Scattergories, Pictionary, etc are my shit.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:38:54 AM EST
[#3]
Axis and Allies.

Battlemech.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:41:55 AM EST
[#4]
I loved playing Fireball Island when I was a kid
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:43:27 AM EST
[#5]
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:45:31 AM EST
[#6]
monopoly
risk
chutes and ladders
life
trivial pursuit
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:46:48 AM EST
[#7]
Scrabble.

Trivial pursuit.

Sorry.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:47:48 AM EST
[#8]
Monopoly.

Clue.


Wife doesn't do too well with Clue so that is a good one for me
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:49:33 AM EST
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We played Fireball Island when my daughter was a kid. I like games with little thinking: Life, Risk, King Oil. I used to play Scrabble, but that requires too much thinking.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:52:11 AM EST
[#10]
Panzer Battles

Panzer Leader--& with supplemental 'gamettes'

Highway to the Reich (a campaign game)

and

White Death--Velikiye Luki

/r
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 2:15:39 AM EST
[#11]
Risk

Axis & Allies (all versions)

Not much of a board game but we played anyway. D&D
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 2:17:00 AM EST
[#12]
Check out "Blockus". 

Seriously fun game but only 2-4 people. Best with 4 people.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:01:49 AM EST
[#13]
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 ..
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:03:35 AM EST
[#14]
Murder in the Abbey
Dixit
Cards Against Humanity
Call of Cthulu
Last Night on Earth
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:05:06 AM EST
[#15]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:10:31 AM EST
[#16]
Flashpoint Fire Rescue
King of Tokyo
Splendour
Telestrations
7 Wonders
Red Dragon Inn
Ghost Stories
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:13:07 AM EST
[#17]
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
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:17:37 AM EST
[#18]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:17:45 AM EST
[#19]
Carcassonne

7 Wonders

Settlers
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:19:43 AM EST
[#20]
Monopoly.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:20:31 AM EST
[#21]
Talisman

The Fury of Dracula
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:21:31 AM EST
[#22]
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Yeah, I have been having a blast with this one as well.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:21:37 AM EST
[#23]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:31:30 AM EST
[#24]
Chess and Trivial Pursuit.

J-
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[#25]
Juden Raus!













(disclaimer for autistic snowflakes- yes, it's a joke)
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 10:15:30 AM EST
[#26]
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
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 10:25:45 AM EST
[#27]
Risk, Monopoly, and Cards against Humanity
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 10:26:35 AM EST
[#28]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 10:28:19 AM EST
[#29]
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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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Check out Eldritch Horror. It plays faster and has a lighter set up.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 10:30:04 AM EST
[#30]
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
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 12:51:57 PM EST
[#31]
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[#32]
Stratego, battleship, risk, memoir44, catan
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 12:54:18 PM EST
[#33]
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That's a great game! We still have it.

Add the Empire Builder game and its spin-offs to the list.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:07:31 PM EST
[#34]
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
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:12:03 PM EST
[#35]
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I loved that game so much I kept it.  Brought it out to play with the nephews, and they LOVED it.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:16:25 PM EST
[#36]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:20:27 PM EST
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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?
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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
Talk to me about this.  I like the broad age range aspect. Is it a co op game or one winner?


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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:25:52 PM EST
[#38]
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
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:27:05 PM EST
[#39]
Codenames.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:34:30 PM EST
[#40]
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
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:43:17 PM EST
[#41]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:47:18 PM EST
[#42]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 1:58:14 PM EST
[#43]
Lords of Waterdeep
Monopoly
Tsuro
Blokus Trigon
Sequence
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 2:00:30 PM EST
[#44]
Civilization
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 2:01:51 PM EST
[#45]
Scrabble.  Classic rules, nine tiles.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:26:32 PM EST
[#46]
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.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 3:28:10 PM EST
[#47]
Ticket to Ride is really fun
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 4:16:47 PM EST
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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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A new edition of that game was issued by Fantasy Flight Games a few years back. Good fun!
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 7:37:30 PM EST
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I never heard of it until this thread. Looks interesting, I might have to order it.
Link Posted: 2/12/2017 7:46:30 PM EST
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Check out Eldritch Horror. It plays faster and has a lighter set up.
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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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