Favorite board games?

[sclitheroe]

Fireball Island was fun back in the day:

[Fozzie_DeBear]

Pente

[Mattitude]

We tried a new one last week called Mystery of the Abbey. It was actually pretty good. It's a mix of Clue and Guess Who. The instruction manual is like a novel though.

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by Mattitude

We tried a new one last week called Mystery of the Abbey. It was actually pretty good. It's a mix of Clue and Guess Who. The instruction manual is like a novel though.

We played that a few times. It was fun, but seemed too short.

[Mattitude]

Obviously you guys weren't terrible at guessing like us.

Originally Posted by Aeneas

We played that a few times. It was fun, but seemed too short.

[wooohooo]

My default is usually Settlers of Catan. Friends just got into the something and Knights and heard that was awesome.

Lately I've been playing some san juan and and puerto rico. They're pretty similar... but San Juan is a better starter game and once you get the feel of it, Puerto Rico takes it further.

My family seems to like Agricola but I find it kinda meh...

Dominion is also really fun... wish it would play more than 4. Sometimes we just include 5 players.

Edit: Chicago Express and Ticket to Ride are also pretty fun.

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by Mattitude

Obviously you guys weren't terrible at guessing like us.

The guessing and use of logic to rule out suspects was fun. Just thought that not much strategy could be used leading up to that as it was pretty slow moving about the abbey, you could only get to a few rooms before suddenly it was over.

Maybe we did it wrong?

For those not in the know it is based (I assume) on the novel by Umberto Eco, The Name Of The Rose. Also of course the Sean Connery movie of the same name.

[Flames Draft Watcher]

Originally Posted by wooohooo

Dominion is also really fun... wish it would play more than 4. Sometimes we just include 5 players.

If you have Dominion and Intrigue it plays 5 and 6 players. Intrigue has the rules for it. You just include 4 more of each victory point card and 10 more curses for each player you add past 4.

[V]

I'm a bit of a board game geek. I know enough people that enjoy games that we manage to get together with couples often enough to make purchasing the games worth it.

Greatest game of all time is Diplomacy. No question. There is simply no parallel to a perfectly executed stab in Diplomacy.

Some that I own that I really enjoy would include (in no particular order):

Dragon Delta
Through the Desert
Puerto Rico
Agricola
Alhambra
Le Havre

None of these games use dice or the drawing of cards, which is important in my ranking of games. The less chance you are exposed to the more I like the game.

Catan is a good gateway into the industry. I far prefer Cities and Knights over the first two. I actually bought Das Buch with all the pieces for the game and there are some really cool expansions in there. I've seen that you can buy cards for Catan with the correct number of cards for a normalized distribution of the numbers. I don't know if I'd like that.

Carcasonne is a nice quick and easy game, good for newbs.

Stock Ticker is just an awesome game, as long as it's played properly. Which is, of course, as frantically as possible.

Clue and Mastermind are games that will never, ever grow old for me. Timeless classics.

Lost Cities is a great 2 player game. My wife and I spent hours playing that game before we had kids and lost whatever free time we may have had. My wife and I also spent a lot of time playing Empire Builder as a 2 player game. It seemed to work quite well, we enjoyed it. St. Petersburg is also a great easy game. It scales really well, so it works as a 2 player game just as well as it does for a 4 player game.

I've never been a fan of A&A. Too many balance issues in my opinion.

I've heard that Power Grid is very good. I'll have to check it out.

[FireFly]

Ruin is a really good game too.

[LGA]

Originally Posted by troutman

Now that summer is over, a game night could be arranged. PM me if you want to be added to the CP group.

Memoir ' 44, El Grande, Carcassonne, Princes Of Florence, Formula De, Alhambra, Pandemic, Pirate's Cove, Puerto Rico

Pandemic is a really, really fun game for anyone that's never played it.

It's a cooperative boardgame, which is pretty fun and different.

In the same vein, Shadows over Camelot's also really fun, it's also a cooperative boardgame, but there's a chance for having a traitor amongst the group.

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Aeneas

I think a CP game of Diplomacy would be great.

Better yet if all 8 (or is it 7, been years and years) players have never met before.

It's 7.

Originally Posted by V

Greatest game of all time is Diplomacy. No question. There is simply no parallel to a perfectly executed stab in Diplomacy.

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I've never been a fan of A&A. Too many balance issues in my opinion.

Never played A&A (I know, I know), but this is funny to me. Diplomacy has huge balance issues (borne out statistically, different countries have different win percentages). Unless of course you're talking about "Five Italies".

Originally Posted by LGA

Pandemic is a really, really fun game for anyone that's never played it.

It's a cooperative boardgame, which is pretty fun and different.

I've played it once, didn't really like it. Without competition (direct or indirect) it's basically just a giant game of solitaire. You can play an entire game just being told what to do by the other players.

[WilsonFourTwo]

Axis and Allies (Original). The Europe and Pacific theater editions are alright.
Machiavelli (Diplomacy varient). Frakkin' fantastic game.
Ticket to Ride. Fun 'thinking while drinking' game. Good social game.
Carcassonne. Amazingly fun game. Good family night game.

TALISMAN!!!! (Good luck finding one though)

[Kool Keef]

[DropIt]

I love board games, but finding people who will takehe time to learn a new one and put aside hours to play is next to impossible

[calumniate]

I know that card games probably don't apply here, and when you think of cards it's always the six thousand variations of poker, but if you have 4 people Spades is a lot of fun!

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo

Axis and Allies (Original). The Europe and Pacific theater editions are alright.
Machiavelli (Diplomacy varient). Frakkin' fantastic game.
Ticket to Ride. Fun 'thinking while drinking' game. Good social game.
Carcassonne. Amazingly fun game. Good family night game.

TALISMAN!!!! (Good luck finding one though)

Seconded. My all time favourite.

[VladtheImpaler]

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[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by HPLovecraft

Who wants to wager when peter12 sees this thread, he'll post chess?

Too new. He'll choose Go.

Always loved playing Clue, Monopoly, Crib, and yes, chess - though I suck at it.

I remember Careers as well, though I wonder if I simply remember it fondly because I've completely forgotten how that game was played.

The absolute worst game though is The Farming Game. It is as frustrating and tedious as actually farming during the Great Depression.

[mykalberta]

For me Dominion and Agricola are fun, but its never something I would bring out, even ahead of easy to play games like T2R and PowerGrid.

I am not a fan of cooperative games like Pandemic.

Another game which is surprisingly fun is Battlestar Galactica (quasi cooperative) - not a fan of the Pegasus expansion, the original is just fine IMO.