Favorite Board Game

[Main_Brain]

Cluedo ;')

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Main_Brain
Cluedo ;')

Yeah, too bad I've only played it twice... and I was about 6 years old at that time

[Urban Ranger]

Civilization (the Avalon Hill one) is excellent, great social interactions. Another good one is British Rails (most of Mayfairs railway building games are good).


DrSpike,

Ah, but I do play mindless games as well Games such as Kings and Things, Talisman, Dungeon, etc.

[zorbop]

chess is my favorite, by far, but i like D&D, GO, scrabble and stratego also.

[Jon Miller]

yah

I was refering to the avalon hill one (I like the advanced game better though)

JM

[Urban Ranger]

The original is better for fewer players (3-5)

[self biased]

two words: robo rally.

[skuzzy]

I think you're all sadly mistaken By far the best board game ever is Hungry Hungry Hippos and that is just the sad truth of it. Chess second and Risk third -.-

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
The original is better for fewer players (3-5)

I never play with fewer than 5

Jon Miller

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I never play with fewer than 5

Quite a large group you have there. We used to play with 4 or 5.

[Jon Miller]

I had a gaming group that I got addicted to Civ (although my senior year I did have quite a struggle with the Magic Players (the RPGers were conquored though))

sometimes two games were played in a weekend because so many people wanted to play

Jon Miller
(even though it was often that 9 or so would say they were interested and only 5 or 6 would appear)

[Jon Miller]

(actually I did play with fewer than 5 when I was young, I just wasn't counting that because I had forgotten it, I have played over 60 games of Civ and won my first game (8-player not advanced) back in '92)

there was a time where I had won over 85% of all games I played, but my senior year of college I played 7 games and I lost all of them (urually by less than 100 points)

there was one 48 hour period where I played 3 games of civ (it was on spring break)

Jon Miller

[vee4473]

Originally posted by Space05us
Axis & Allies, but its literally impossible to find anyone to play with. Everyone would rather play stupidpeoplewithnopatience games.
Cranium would be my second favorite game.

That's probably because when most people get together to play a board game, they want a fun time, not a game that requires intense learning or study just to get up and running.

Those types of games are for more hard core gaming types, not the casual bunch looking for a fun diversion.

It's just two preferences. That's all. Maybe someone who racked his brains all day at work sometimes wants to enjoy a simpler time at home.

But, to call them stupid with no patience is just blah.

Come on now, this occasional burst of insulting people who disagree or have different tastes in games is getting tiresome.


It's like the TBS crowd belittling those who dare to enjoy RTS games as "incompetent boobs who just can't understand the real nature of gaming as I do".

Get your nose out the air.

[Verto]

vee - can we call them stupid with LITTLE patience?

What do you guys think about Monopoly? Truly a classic, or it is just 'popular' to consider it a classic?

[DrSpike]

Well when your opponent lands on your Mayfair, with a Hotel, then the game is a classic. If you land on Mayfair when he owns it and the hotel, then its a stupid game you didn't want to play anyway.