Board Games
 

Hail Citizens!

Anyone out there still play board games?

I used to have a regular group. We played a wide variety of games. In my opinion there is nothing better than sitting on the porch across from friendly competitors witha big fat cigar in my mouth. Computers just dont bring the social aspects of gaming out very well. Games played:
Formula De
Speed Circuit
Talisman
RoboRally
Tales of The Arabian Nights
Gunslinger
(just to name a few off the top of my head)

I've still got hundreds of games stashed in my attic. Someday I hope to get a group again. Someday.
-GH

I have heard of exactly on of those games (Talisman). We always used to play things like Monopoly, Life, Yahtzee, Triominos, Flinch (old school skitbo), and various other card games.

Don't see many people playing these types of games anymore.

i' ve never heard of those board games, however my family still plays a lot of checkers and spades at social gatherings

Risk, Scrabble, and Chess. Many a night have my friends and I played Risk until the sun came up.

When I was younger I use to play Risk a lot. Still play Trivial Pursuit sometimes.

I'm a Monopoly fanatic. Thats the Capitalist that sits in my head talking. Otherwise, I play Scrabble at least once a week still with my parents and sister.

Risk is great....but it's nothing compared to my favorite war board games.....

*drumroll*

Axis & Allies and Fortress America.

Another great one is Supremacy - it's like a complicated risk with modern weapons - especially with the add-on packs :D

I also am a fan of the more classic games - Life, Scrabble, Monopoly, etc

Oh yeah, and, of course, chess. LOVE chess. Also cool is "3d chess" - not quite like the game they play in Star Trek but sort of. Basically it's 3 chessboards one on top of another. One person starts on one side on the top and the other person on the bottom on the other side. There are special spots for transferring between levels and there is a special spot for kings only to transfer as well.

Now we are getting somwhere. Don't get me wrong, I too like the old standards mentioned like Risk, Monopoly, Scrabble and trick-taking card games. Poker will also aways be in my life.

Axis & Allies and Fortress America are part of Milton Bradley's Gamemaster series. Other games in that series are Conquest of the Empire, Shogun (rereleased as Samari Swords), and Broadsides and Boarding Parties. I love all the little pieces. The gameplay is simple but fun.
-GH

Curious - do you mean that to apply to Axis and Allies as well as those others? To me, it's one of the most complex board games I've played. So many possible strategies - so much to consider.

I've never had a chance to play (even SEE) any of the other gamemaster games other than A&A and Fortress America - one day.

You are right to call me on my blanket statement. Axis and Allies is definitely more complex than most of the other Game Master series. It also has a great following with more advanced rules to be added for those looking for more realism. It's possibilities are certainly complex. The rules, once you get them down, are pretty straight foward and considered of standard complexity once you compare it to Advanced Squad Leader and its ilk. Don't get me wrong, complex rules do not, in my book, mean a better game. The ideal combination for a good game are rules that take little time to learn but a long time to master. Chess can be described this way.
-GH

Axis and Allies is an awesome game. But it took forever to setup and one bump of the board the war was history.
Talisman was great, so was Kings and Things

God bless you for mentioning Kings and Things.
Tom Wham is one of my favorite game designers.
Snit's Revenge, The Awful Green Things From Outer Space, Mertwig's Maze are other excellent games created by him when he worked for TSR. If you haven't tried them, they come highly recommended by me.
-GH

Stratego is a terribly fun game. Play 3 or 4 games in a row, let them think they have your strategy down, then run their best piece into a mine. :D
I love Monopoly, and rock at it. I'm ruthless.
Clue.
Chess.

One game I have ALWAYS hated, and to this game will not play: Battleship.

I am a huge fan of board games, they're like nostalgic or something. I have an Axis and Allies, and a Shogun. I love Shogun, new shits out too, like Risk 2040 or something like that. Avalon Hill makes really excellet games. A game I've been hearing good about is Settlers of Catan, but I haven't played it

I'm a board game junkie! My favorites are (in no particular order)

Settelers of Catan (With Cities and Knights Expansion)
Serenisima
Supremacy (With megamap!)
Axis & Allies
Dragon Delta
Samurai Swords
Armada 3
Caracassone
Ice House (I'm not sure if this counts as a board game... but it's still awesome!)
Go (BEST GAME EVER. PERIOD!)

I love any Euro-games product, also any Rio-Grande Game is incredible as well.

I loves me a good board game!

Golux

I've been pretty happy with Risk (& poker & Boggle, though they aren't games with a "board", exactly).
But now, thanks to you guys, I've got some leads to pursue. Axis & Allies sounds <i>very</i> interesting. Thanks again.

Gonna bump this one up to the top. I'm looking to play stratego and risk, but was hoping there was a place that one of you guys might know to play these multiplayer online? I would love to play risk and stratego against some guys that live out in Arizona.

I am a chess addict.

There was this boardgame which was quite fun when I was a kid -it was made by TSR and called "swords and sorcery". I would love to play it again.

wow, I never knew there were so many alternative board games out there. We used to play Axis & Allies constantly when I was a kid, and I tried Shogun a couple of times at a friend-of-a-friends house, but I have never heard of any of the others listed here. I do seem to remember a Mechwarrior board game from probably 15 years ago, but I can't remember the name or exactly how it was played. Lots of heatsink management if I recall.

Ahh GH- let us not forget Jutland, Panzer Blitz, and the other games of our larval stage. I often lie awake at night dreaming of "Robin Hood" and of course "Mystic Wood".

Risk Risk Risk...

I used to play Risk...

Then I discovered Diplomacy, the most Machiavellian political game ever!

www.diplom.org

My strategy game of choice is Abalone, an obscure but brilliant French game.

I used to play a lot of Monopoly, but since I played it like Diplomacy and beat the crap out of my family by exploiting all the loopholes I placed in my web of contracts and agreements, nobody really plays me anymore.

Wow I read a bit from this site, that game sounds very cool. Maybe we can organize a game by email at some point between members of the forum?

Formula De!

That was an awesome game. We used to have a regular league going back in high school, keeping track of points just like in real F1 racing.

A year or so back I found a computer version. There was no AI but it was perfect for PBEM. I'd love to get a game on sometimes if I can find it again.

Update: computer version is here.

I too am a board game junkie, a great resource for gamers is www.boardgamegeek.com

I love playing, but am not limited to the following

Bang
Axis & Allies
Risk
Risk 2210
Settlers of Catan
Monopoly
Lord of the Rings
Betrayal at Haunted Hill
10 days in Africa/America
Mare Nosdstrom
Colossial Arena
Trivial Pursuit
Pictionary
Beyond Balderdash
Scene It

(This list could go on forever)

If anyone is interested in knowing more about games, check out Board Game Geek, They have pretty good reviews.

Two games that I am most interested in trying are Puerto Rico and Democracy. Any takes on Puerto Rico?? I hear great things about it.

I particulary liked Magic the Gathering, and the first few sets. After awhile it just got stupid with all the new cards and rules. I know it's not really a "Boardgame", but I had this 4x4 sheet of plywood we played it on...

When we are at the cottage the games come out...

Stratego
Monopoly
Careers
Shogun
Othello
Trivial Pursuit
Sorry

Nothing on the more comlex types of games as it is usually just my son and me playing but occasionally we get a whole group going... GH if ever I am down in Texas or you up here... I'd totally be up to sitting on the porch and playing.

Sounds most excellent!

Board games? Don't you mean BORED games??

Ahahahaha I love myself...

J/k. I love to play Broadside and Chess and Trivial Pursuit and Risk, although it seems like no one knows how to play Risk anymore, or even wants to play :(

I love Age of Imperialism. Probably the best board game I have played in a long time. Plus, the average game last about 6 hours, which makes it an excellent afternoon killer.

Stratego, Risk, Chess, Diplomacy, Axies and Allies, and Sorry were my games of choice. Everyonce and a while my sister would convince me to play monoply but I have never finished a game of monoply in my life. It would be like 3:30 in the morning and we would get in a fight and someone would flip the board. Honestly, that game is a true test of patience and stamina.

They spoofed themselves in Unglued and Unhinged sets later released. Pretty cool that they can make fun of themselves.

Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition is amazing, I recommend it

Four way Knightmare Chess - You haven't played chess until you've played this way.

Illuminati - You don't truly know your friends until you've played this with them.

Set aside a few hours for this one. And watch when blood hits the water, because it gets pretty messy.

:hmm: :rolleyes:

I'm all about monopoly. I could play it for hours upon hours. Some of my other favorites are: trivial pursuit ( LOTR edition), othello, sequence, and scene it. Scene it is an awsome party game.

Scene It is fun. I want to pick up the James Bond edition of Scene It. :D

Playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit with Coppertop is like watching pros play 9-ball. Just sitting around waiting for the rare chance that he misses one.

i have a copy of axis and allies on my computer-- i had no idea it was a real board game

i generally play the regulars: scrabble, othello, trivial pursuit, boggle, etc.

also my entire family loves rummikub. i'm not entirely sure whether to call this a board game-- it's played with tiles-- but it's one of the funnest games i've ever played.

Axis and Allies D-day is really cool, since it deals more with tactics than the other Axis and Allies games. It also features Canadians. :D

I have a huge collection of boardgames too...

Nothing beats the entertainment you can get from a weekend with good friends over boardgames like Diplomacy, Republic of Rome, Kings and Things etc.

Recent years has seen some incredible games. This genre is NOT in its deaththroes due to computers as many people think.

My favorite game of all time is "Go". It is the simplest game imaginable and at the same time one of the most complex.

Emanuel Lasker(famous chessplayer) said that if he had discovered Go before Chess he would have played Go. He also remarked that if there is intelligent life somewhere else in the universe they know Go, but not chess.. the rules are really that universal in Go. Stunnningly beautiful game to.

;)

Don't me upset at me just because I won in 2 turns. :D

Ahhh, board games. Board games and friends. Board games and friends and snacks. All good things... Here are my faves:

- Chinese Checkers
- Mad Magazine : The Board Game (hilarious!)
- Stratego
- Talisman
- Fireball Island
- Monopoly
- Chess

Mad Magazine Game. That's a great game. Just the addition of the left hand only rule is enough to throw everyone for a loop. :D

Was Fireball Island the one with the big plastic volcano and fireball? I don't think I ever got a chance to play that.

Is the Mad Magazine game the one where they spoofed Monopoly. And to win you had to go bankrupt?

Yup, that was Mad Magazine. Be thankful when playing that game that your name isn't Alfred E. Newman.

I think Fireball Island is the volcano one. If so, I had that way back in the day as well.

Another Risk fanatic here. My SO, my sister, and her boyfriend du jour have a standing Friday night game going. I win about 40% of the time, and the poor guys Sissy brings in that think they're going to take out the three girls using their one strategy they learned in college routinely get their asses handed to them, and if not, we have ways of throwing them off their games. Sometimes when she's out on a date, we'll have the neighbor guys over as a substitute, and they're fun cuz they're not really there for the game and they're really, really easy to distract and take advantage of.

Clue is fun, if only for the freaky way my SO can figure out the solution in one or two turns.

Not a board game, but Jenga, the block stacking game, is surprisingly fun, especially when played as a strip version.

Euchre is a great trick taking card game for four players, easy to learn, perfect for partner play or cutthroat.

Any of the standard Trivial Pursuit games are like taking candy from a baby with team play. I cover literature, history, and movies, my SO the science and Nature and Sports. We've cleared the sixth edition in a single turn.

That's mad deductive skills in Clue.

How do you play Jenga as a strip game? Each block successfully removed, you tell someone else to take off an article of clothing? What if you make the tower collapse?

Yep. She watches the other players arrange their cards, and follows where they're looking around the board, and if she's played with them before, knows their questioning strategy, and one or two questions tells her what they've got. Who and where are fairly easy, it's only the weapon that's very risky.

Good players know this strategy and plan against it, but we don't play against top notch players much.

Whoever makes the tower collapse takes off a piece of clothing. And none of this "a shoe lace is clothes" crap, it has to be an entire piece of clothing. Whoever made the last move before the collapse gets to be the one to actually remove the clothing (you have to randomize turn order each round for this to work). My sister's Beaus du jour love this game, as do our neighbors when Sissy isn't available.

There are other variations. Sometimes the person who collapses the tower can be required to put on someone elses clothing as their punishment, you can add a double or nothing roll of the die, etc. Strip Jenga is an enormous amount of fun.

Yikes. How good is she at poker? Sounds like she'd be a natural.

So it's actually a bit of time in between strippings. Unless people are just knocking down the tower for the hell of it. :D

Oh man Mad Magazine game. I forgot I even owned that till I read it here!

I hate monopoly. You know why? Because I always LOSE! :lol:

We used to play Clue, Boulderdash, Mall Madness (anyone play that?), Operation, Rattle Me Bones.. A bunch of these ratty games were just thrown out in these past years too. Now, I enjoy card games. I've always wanted to try Risk, but never have..

What's stopping you?!

Just never got around to it. I don't want to play bad enough to go buy the game (no money for that sort of thing) and nobody I know ever owned it.

Yep, Fireball Island is the game with the rotating plastic volcano that launches a red marble onto hapless adventurers. I was addicted to this game and Mad Magazine Game. I got them both after a particularly numbing session at the dentist that took me out of school for a week (root canal, 2 cavities, impacted tooth... the works) and I played the crap out of them with my neighbours. Good times.

Just wanted to say thanks for informing me of this game, I'm playing my first game right now via one of the online judges as Turkey. It's a great game, I'm really enjoying it. :thumbsup:

More fun with 6 players - every card bar one is in play - many a family evening spent playing euchre :) (though it is hardly a board game...)

I had a game of Carcassonne link a few weeks ago - it is a "tile laying" game - heaps of fun...

I love trivial pursuit - but it is much more fun with a large group - how well can you talk someone out of the correct answer?

Balderdash is also a favourite - making up your own definitions for real but obscure words :)

Pictionary - again a good group game...

Ah, the old TSR games. I still play Awfull Green things every now and then. I remember when it showed up in an issue of "The Dragon" magazine. And Snits revenge, and others.
Oh shit, I'm showing my age aren't I? :) I still have the magazines too!

I also played most of the Steve Jackson games, and Car Wars has got to be one of the best games ever made. The board version that is. "Fight in the Skies" was another one we played.

I still play GO, and Othello and Reversi, and the occasional game of Backgammon, but that's about it now.

Not a problem my friend, or are you my enemy??? In that case, I say Austria will move Bud to Tri so go for Greece!

I got Greece already in the Fall of 1901! Thats pretty kick ass for my first game I think. The Austrians are completely bone headed I think, so I got lucky.

Haha, I'm totally going for the unconventional games closet.. i've got like a million packs of random cards to start, but then there are 2 boardgames which I have that have really kicked off my ambition to start this closet:

1) Zombies

2) Frag

Zombies is this random ass game got from the local comic/games store. Basically it's dawn of the dead or evil dead, but in boardgame format, there are 4 versions, all can be added on to the next, plus 4 expansions.. Basically it rocks hard.

Then there's Frag. Frag's like zombies.. cept it's the quake equivalent i.e. railguns, machine guns.. ah and a portable nuke to boot. Only got it about a month ago, but it's provided many hours of asskicking fun.

Of course, you definitely can't go wrong with ye olde Risk, Monopoly and one of my old faves, The Game Of Life.. cos it's great.. and it's.. great.

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