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Well, I've gotten my wife into a couple of classics... Talisman, and Arkham Horror.

I played 2nd ed Talisman in college, and we're playing revised 4th now with expansions... awesome game that is.

Arkham we have just started playing in the last few weeks... it is quite the deal to set the game up, and playing with only two investigators has its own challenges, but it's a fun game for sure.

Stuff like Sorry and Monopoly just doesn't have enough going on for me anymore, most days.   And if I have to play another game of Chutes and Ladders again I'll lose 20 SAN points...

We do play Monopoly like once or sometimes twice a year so it never gets boring for me. Other than that I haven't ventured into other board games very much.

Pictionary is interesting at my house because I can't draw.

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nuff said.

Is that anything like The Settlers the PC game?

Never really been into board games, as I would always be forced to play them at some snotty brats house when I was a young 'un. The kid whose house it was would always scream and b***h unless you did everything they said and let them win.

The coolest one I ever had was Darkworld. It took an eternity to build and paint the figures and the rules were far too complicated but I liked it.

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SCRABBLE, by far  :thumbup:

not interested in any type of dungeons + sorcery type complicated stuff

also partial to a bit of TRIVIAL PERSUIT at family occasions

Which Witch was simple but fun.

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Ghost Castle was also pretty cool. I wish I'd hung on to these.

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The Game of Life is a classic too. And Stratego! I always wanted one of those Field Marshal uniforms.

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WHICH WITCH!  I can't believe it. I had completely forgotten that one! I played that one as a very young lad.
I love the classics. Life, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Battleship.

Scattergories, hands down, one of the best board games that there is.

Pretty much, you have a D20 with a letter on each face and you roll it to decide the letter for the round. After that, you and your friends have lists of categories, like, "Things In the Kitchen" or "Movie Titles" and you have to think of one that begins with the letter rolled at the beginning of the round.

BEST. BOARDGAME. EVER. :thumbup:

Which Witch and Ghost Castle look really cool too! Any boardgame with a 3D hauntedhouse is a WIN. Others? :twirl:

My favorite board game was and still is Clue.  The sad part is that I never got to play it much due to the fact my parents didn't like the game or only one of them would play when you needed 3 players.  I never got why they bought the game for me then.  Loved the book series that was also about the game.  Still own a bunch of the books somewhere.

Jenga is fun.

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Mouse Trap

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and...........Mystery Date!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsQpTbQ9Uo

There was another game I played as a young child, I'm not sure if it was an actual board game or not, but I'm trying to figure out what it was called. It involved assembling a small glow-in-the-dark skeleton, piece by piece. I think it was a board game where the goal was to completely assemble the skeleton, and the pieces were the standard green glow-in-the-dark plastic.

This was the 70's. Does anybody else know of this game?

I love Stratego.  My brother and I used to play that all the time.

I like Monopoly but I will not play it with my wife.  She gets p!ssy because I'm a real d!ckhead when I play it.


My wife and I play this game and it is a lot of fun.  I can't wait until my kids are old enough to play.

Some of my other all time favs include Guess Who which I do play with my 5 year old.  We also have this game called "Animal Soup" which is fun. 

I also love any Trivia game but no one wants to play with me because I'm a nerd and know a lot of useless facts.  :bluesad:

my sister's MALE friends do enjoy the Barbie Game......., :bouncegiggle:

Here are a few suggestions:

DOMINANT SPECIES: Each player chooses an animal class (mammal, insect, bird, etc.) and tries to adapt and survive in a changing environment.

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TWILIGHT STRUGGLE: One player represents the U.S., the other represents the Soviet Union.  Each player plays cards representing historic events that influenced either democracy or communism or both in order to gain the most support from other countries.

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DUST: Sort of like Risk, only better.

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That looks cool as well! :thumbup:

I'm not sure if this counts but Scatagories is great.

Hero Quest

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Key to the Kingdom

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AVGN recently talked about it but I remember playing.  I always hated it as it tended to dissolve into winning by any means necessary. 

Trivial Pursuit

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I always found it rather interesting but then got older and it lost some of its magic.  It did get me remembering useless trivia.   Yeah!

Fortress America

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Weird one like many war simulation games.  The United States is invaded on three fronts and the three forces cooperate to eliminate the US. 

The Burgomaster you have some interesting games there.  I haven't seen any of them and they all seem like interesting strategic games. 

Anyone else ever find the kids on the boxes and TV ads really irritating? They look like they're going to p**s their pants. I know it's to make the games look more exciting so they'll get purchased but does anyone seriously get that excited over a board game? That's just what they are "bored" games.

You're cracking me up, Circus, because I know what you're talking about. Sometimes it's not just the kids. Sometime the box has a family, mom, dad, two kids, playing the game and looking like they're, as you say, p**sing themselves from excitement. I wouldn't let it annoy you too much. I recommend seeing the comedy in it.

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After playing Monopoly for an hour I get sick of it! :wink:

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Diplomacy - this game was ridiculously fun, but you needed a full 7 players to get up a decent game.  Set in pre-WWI in Europe.  There was no luck element to the combat, it was a simple numbers game.  The tricky part was making and breaking alliances, and selectively betraying the other players.  Like the name says, the game was won or lost through diplomacy. 

Oh you mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI37Owi_Cls

chess
draughts
othello
backgammon

not mentioned yet, just thought I'd chuck em in there!

I rarely play games anymore (well on rare occasions I play card games) but I do own some nevertheless. My favourites are:

Scrabble
Monopoly
Battleship
Checkers

But I also own:

Snakes and Ladders
Pictionary
Risk

As a kid I loved also:

Table Top Hockey
The Game of Life
Legends of Wrestling (a card and dice game you ordered out of rasslin' mags)
Bingo
Connect Four
Candyland
Mouse Trap

ZOMBIE STATE: I mentioned this in another discussion thread awhile back.  It's sort of like Risk, except players don't play against each other.  Instead, each player is defending a continent against multiplying and wandering zombie hoardes.  You can use military might, technological breakthroughs, or a combination of the two.  Whichever player fares best against the zombies attacking his continent is the winner.

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I've been playing a good amount of Mansions of Madness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ5mZStU5zI

It's a sister game to Arkham Horror, down to containing the same "investigators."

It's primary difference from Arkham Horror is that one player is the keeper, who sets up the game board and has the primary job of screwing over the other players. The rest of the players must work together to solve the story (five are included with the game), which is unknown to them when they begin the game.

Also, each story takes place in one location. As opposed to the cosmic horror of Arkham, each game of Mansions of Madness is a self-contained "haunted house" tale.

It's a streamlined tabletop RPG, where each game last two hours or so. Even though most of the gameplay is largely based on randomized event cards, it lends itself surprisingly well to story-telling.

Lots of fun. Not very cheap.

Years ago, I bought a PC version of this for a couple of bucks from a guy who was having a moving sale at his apartment.  It was fun the first few times I played it, but then I lost interest.  Definitely something that requires personal interaction.

An old Navy buddy and I would get locked into an intense game of Axis & Allies once in a while. He usually won, so when I did win it was a big deal.

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There was another intense strategy and history based board game I used to play called Caesar, with a certain friend. This game would sometimes take 2-3 long sittings to get through. It was a hex-based reenactment of the Battle of Alesia between Julius Caesar's legions and the Gauls under Vercingetorix. We would spend a Saturday from maybe 10 am until that night, and still only be through maybe half a game. I couldn't find a box picture for that one.

My wife and I have been playing these quite a bit recently:

7 WONDERS - Great game.  Each player has a hand of cards representing buildings, resources, military, science, etc.  Everyone chooses one card to add to their display, then passes their cards to the next person who chooses one, then they get passed again and so on.  Really tense because you only get to choose one card at a time and you can see all the good ones you are about to pass to your opponent.  

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LONDON - Takes place after the great fire of London.  This is another card driven game with cards representing buildings, urban improvements (e.g., street lights, the underground), people, etc.  Cards are color coded and if you want to add a card to your display you need to throw away a card of the same color.  The catch is, that card now becomes availabe for your opponent to pick up and use.  Always tough decisions about what to keep and what to throw away.  You can also purchase boroughs (the game board is a map of the city).  Each borough provides victory points and allows you to draw more cards from the deck.  But the more cards you have, the more susceptible you are to poverty which counts against you in the final scoring.

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I also enjoyed Go For Broke

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I'm pretty sure I still have that tucked away somewhere.

The younger nieces and nephews like Perfection. For me it has pretty limited replay value but they can sit for a along time playing it over and over...

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Here's a game that was fun for about 20 minutes , but there are actual leagues nowadays for fans.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFZIS_a3CE&feature=related