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01-30-2020, 10:20 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Chicagoland
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We play board games when the kids visit (and the grandkids allow it ).
In addition to Ticket to Ride, we like Bananagrams and Dixit. At Christmas, DS#3 introduced us to Codenames which was a lot of fun.
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01-31-2020, 08:17 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 6,985
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We play Cards against Humanity with a group of close friends and it’s fun. Our friends introduced us to Senet which is for 2 people and dates back centuries. It’s my favorite game.
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01-31-2020, 09:06 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,150
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Wow, a whole world of games we were unaware of.
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01-31-2020, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 3,390
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We don't have any board games except for an old game of Clue. It isn't much fun where there are only 2 people.
However, we do play Farkle and take it on trips. Just 6 dice in a small plastic box so you can carry it in your pocket. Turned a few people on to it when traveling.
Cheers!
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01-31-2020, 11:33 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chattanooga
Posts: 3,871
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Quote:
Originally Posted by frayne
Last bored game I played was probably monopoly.
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Correction, chess and backgammon player here, just didn't think of them in the realm of board games for some reason. My bad !
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01-31-2020, 12:09 PM
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#26
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 6,985
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Senet is a combination of skill with some luck involved.
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01-31-2020, 01:02 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Minneapolis/St. Paul
Posts: 82
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Love Ticket to Ride. 5 Second Rule is really fun and fast paced, especially good with kids. Our kids are also really into Clue (absolutely not modern).
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01-31-2020, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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We were introduced to Kingdomino. Good for kids. Just a little bit of waiting for the other guy to get done with his turn. Quite a bit of luck, but some strategy.
I'm not a huge fan of Catan because so much is determined at the outset. I mean, if I get to place a city on woods and clay, all with, five dots numbers and next to a 2:1 wood port and the board has no other "juicy" options, it's pretty certain I'm winning unless everyone gangs-up on me. And that's another thing I don't like about Catan...if you're out to keep someone from winning, you can make any deal you want, so the two trailing players can trade their entire hand for one unneeded card that the second place player has. All this in order to keep the guy who's winning from finishing in first place.
A game I "never win", but enjoy is Banannagrams. I usually try to make a funny, themed-words board. We have a house rule that lets me win occasionally. First game, two letter words are legit. Next game, the winner of the previous game can't use two-letter words. Should someone win twice, they can't use two or three letter words. At least then I can say "peel" occasionally.
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01-31-2020, 01:15 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 4,629
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Quote:
Originally Posted by USGrant1962
I've done a little bit of Catan, Carcassonne,
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I've played both of them with my grandsons. I like Catan better.
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01-31-2020, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Olathe
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We love strategy games, especially Catan, Dominion and 7 Wonders. Our favorite 2 player strategy game is 7 Wonders Duel (including the expansion). We don't play as much since the grandkids popped out, but hoping they can join in as they get older. We probably own about 50 strategy and party games.
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01-31-2020, 04:35 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2016
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We enjoy Wingspan - beautiful and very playable game for 2 people. Ticket to Ride is fun and we also enjoy Hive. We own Secret Hitler but haven't had enough people over yet to play it.
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01-31-2020, 04:56 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: San Francisco
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrald
I'm curious how many of us older folks are fans of modern board games. I'm not talking about Monopoly, Risk, Uno etc. I talking about games like Ticket to Ride, WingSpan, Castles of Burgundy etc.
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Define older? Based on my social group, folks in their 30s and 40s are all into them. Based on folks I see online, folks in their 50s and 60s are too...
I just got my Steve Jackson Games 80s pocket box games reprint Kickstarter shipment, waiting on the Eclipse 2nd edition Kickstarter to show up, had a friend over last night to play 7 Wonders Duel, and see the Star Realms foil set kickstarter just funded so I have that to look forward to. :P
Highly recommend:
Eclipse
Terraforming Mars
Great Western Trail
Pandemic Legacy, Season 1 (halfway through the season, Legacy games are neat!)
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01-31-2020, 06:55 PM
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#33
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: DC area
Posts: 2,464
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Retch The Grate
Define older? Based on my social group, folks in their 30s and 40s are all into them. Based on folks I see online, folks in their 50s and 60s are too...
I just got my Steve Jackson Games 80s pocket box games reprint Kickstarter shipment, waiting on the Eclipse 2nd edition Kickstarter to show up, had a friend over last night to play 7 Wonders Duel, and see the Star Realms foil set kickstarter just funded so I have that to look forward to. :P
Highly recommend:
Eclipse
Terraforming Mars
Great Western Trail
Pandemic Legacy, Season 1 (halfway through the season, Legacy games are neat!)
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I passed on the SJ Games pocket box kickstarter because I still have all the originals. But I did do Ogre Designers Edition, which has to be the biggest and heaviest game ever made. My name is on the box.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...very&term=OGRE
And this thread got me looking again for local groups. One listed Pandemic Fall of Rome as most played recently. I looked it up between sessions of Field of Glory: Empires and insta-ordered it the other night. Arrives tomorrow.
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02-01-2020, 11:23 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2019
Posts: 55
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I knew I couldn't be the only one. There are some great games on everyone's lists.
Eclipse is a personal favorite of mine that never gets to the table. Most people don't want to play a 6 hour game.
Terraforming Mars (known in our house as Changing planets) is a game that's been played at least once a week since it came out.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by USGrant1962
<<SNIP>> I looked it up between sessions of Field of Glory: Empires and insta-ordered it the other night. Arrives tomorrow.
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02-01-2020, 12:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2019
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I used to like Stock Market, Easy Money, Monopoly, Careers, Dungeons and Dragons, and Chess, but that was over 30 years ago. I've barely played any board games since, nor video games. None of them interest me much anymore - too many other things to do.
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02-01-2020, 03:57 PM
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#36
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
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My young nephews are so quick they only need to see us play a game once and catch on immediately often winning the next round.
But we’re usually playing card games or dominoes.
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02-02-2020, 10:34 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 6,679
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I play Scrabble (see my screen name!), Strat-o-Matic baseball, and some chess. Back in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, I played Careers, Boggle, other Strat-o-Matic games, a board game called Stock Market, and Monopoly, along with some card games.
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02-02-2020, 12:03 PM
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#38
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 3,043
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The "Game of Life" was good. My sister made me play "Mystery Date" with her, LOL.
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02-02-2020, 01:10 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2019
Posts: 55
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I am working very hard on not making snarky, inappropriate and possibly perma-ban worthy comments.
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim584672
<<SNIP>> My sister made me play "Mystery Date" with her, LOL.
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Also, I'm pretty sure my older sister made me play too.
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02-02-2020, 06:56 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 236
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
What makes these different than classic board games? I’m not interested in classic board games any more, would the modern games be different?
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I think the Euro games sort of kicked off a revitalization of tabletop board gamers. People have mentioned Settlers of Catan, Ticket to ride, Castle of Burgundy, etc. and Carcassonne would be another example.
These different greatly from classic American style board games, which the more classic ones relied heavily on luck while playing and really didn’t offer a lot of opportunities for strategy.
By contrast “modern” board games, in the mainstream anyway, tend to offer strategy but still allow for luck to play a factor. This helps a lot for newer people to play against veterans and still have a chance, yet the veteran can strategize away and be content doing so.
The different mechanics of modern board games are truly amazing. Some of the cooperative ones are downright a blast to play with a group of people (Pandemic, Betrayl on Hill House, & Dead of Winter would be examples) and offer different gameplay vs competing with everyone.
A lot of local libraries have checkouts of board games if you want to try some w/o buying, or many metro areas of board game clubs or stores with nights where you can just show up and try out a new game.
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