Board Games

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I've decided that once again I'm a big fan of board games.

They're the new computer games y'know...

Anyone else love a good game of Monopoly, Cluedo or anything a bit deeper?

If so, post your favourite games in here cos I'm always up for new suggestions to spend my money on.

Stratego

Kinda like chess, but you don't know what your opponent's pieces are.

Civilisation The Boardgame

Sid Meier's - how cool is that?! Based on the computer game with a huge four foot board and of course multiplayer!

Campaign

Napoleonic Warfare. Slightly confusing but great when you get started.

Risk

The classic war world domination game. A game can last a week. I love this game.

Settlers Of Catan

Board game of the year for loads of years apparantly. Build towns, roads and strategically place them to mine more produce.

Monopoly

It's just the classic. Great fun to play, though not so great with just two players.

Scrabble

Classic word play. Just really playable and I normally beat my wife so enjoy it.

Really Nasty Horse Racing Game

A great game where you bet on your horse or others, run a race and can screw other people's chances of winning a race to make more money.

I like loads of other games but they're the ones I can think of right now...

[Gongsun Zan]

I love scrabble, though I hardly ever win at it.

Monopoly is great fun too, though it always tends to end in a shouting match. Maybe I need to find calmer people to play with.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

I love Monopoly. We got the Cambridge Monopoly for Christmas (Obviously because I live in Cambridge) and it damn rules. Just a classic board game which everyone can usually enjoy and have a laugh with.

Scrabble is awesome too. When my Mum was in the hospital having my brother years back I spent days on that game playing with my older brother, classic stuff. Payday is another favourite too. A kids game which my little brother has, but you can still enjoy it and have a good laugh.

Although I can just remember a pure awesome Turtles board game, someone needs to help me remember it properly. Ive got it somewhere from like years upon years back, around the time that Turtles used to be on Sky 1, when Sky 1 was actually good that was and Turtles was awesome. You like used to spin a wheel thing and you'd collect pizza things if I remember correctly.

[SeanDMan]

My mom is one of those "genius level crossward" types, so I never win at scrabble. I do my best to keep it competitive.

Among the more, uh, hip crowd, I'm always down for some strategamo.

[Stevie B]

Cluedo.

[apsham]

I'm a simple guy, I like my Monopoly, Game of Life and other such simple games. I don't like those that you have to learn the "anicient rules of Chinese gameplay" to... play.

[lanky316]

I've decided that once again I'm a big fan of board games.

They're the new computer games y'know...

Anyone else love a good game of Monopoly, Cluedo or anything a bit deeper?

If so, post your favourite games in here cos I'm always up for new suggestions to spend my money on.

Stratego

Kinda like chess, but you don't know what your opponent's pieces are.

Civilisation The Boardgame

Sid Meier's - how cool is that?! Based on the computer game with a huge four foot board and of course multiplayer!

Campaign

Napoleonic Warfare. Slightly confusing but great when you get started.

Risk

The classic war world domination game. A game can last a week. I love this game.

Settlers Of Catan

Board game of the year for loads of years apparantly. Build towns, roads and strategically place them to mine more produce.

Monopoly

It's just the classic. Great fun to play, though not so great with just two players.

Scrabble

Classic word play. Just really playable and I normally beat my wife so enjoy it.

Really Nasty Horse Racing Game

A great game where you bet on your horse or others, run a race and can screw other people's chances of winning a race to make more money.

I like loads of other games but they're the ones I can think of right now...

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[Lowerdeck]

Monopoly is good times, but it takes forever for me to finish. Usually like three hours for one game.

[Dyko]

I'm personally a huge fan of Scrabble, Scattergories, and Monopoly.

I used to like Connect Four, but this summer I played it against my friend who is seriously some sort of math genius, and it was just frustrating, because he'd have me beat like 4 moves before I knew it was coming.

Bastard.

[zero]

I'm gonna let you guys in on a little secret. It's a game called Huggermugger, it's fucking awesome. If you can find it (EBay it, I don't think it's sold anymore), buy it, it's a blast. Especially with a full game of four people, but it's still fun with just two. Go find it.

[Enter Blue Guy]

MONONOPOLY BABY! WOOO!

I'M THE IRON! WOO! THIMBLE! NO THE TOP HAT! ACHTUNG!

[DMN in the House]

Shoots and Ladders and Candy Land... BITCH!

Someone had too.

Seriously, I fuckin' love Monopoly and Chess.

[Guest Wrestling_Man]

Really Nasty Horse Racing Game

A great game where you bet on your horse or others, run a race and can screw other people's chances of winning a race to make more money.

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[MalaCloudy Black]

Chess, Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble. All favorites. I prefer Scrabble over all of them though because Monopoly takes forever, I don't care too much for Clue, and I suck at Chess.

[TOG]

I love Chess and I mark for RISK.

[FLiam]

I had this game called 'Go For Broke'. Basically, first person to throw away all their money wins, that game was awesome and I played it loads when I was younger.

I also had this other wicked Wallace and Gromit board game, now that was a game and then some.

[ROC]

Trivial Pursuit > *

No matter how mind-numbingly difficult it was to answer questions.

[Skummy]

Cluedo, Risk and the Pac-Man board game are some of the greatest things known to man. Only problem being that you always end up losing bits of the Pac-Man game, and Risk takes about as long to play as *actual* empire building.

[Lowerdeck]

My roomate got a version of Trival Pursuit which covers the modern era. Meaning no mind bending questions that Stephen Hawking couldn't answer. It's 1981 to 2001 in range, 20th anniversary (?) Anyone else got that?

Chess is good stuff, although I'm terrible at it. Upwords and Scrabble, those are cool too.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

I dunno if this counts, since it's sold in geek-stores and not regular stores, but, Me and my friends play a game called "ZOMBIES!!" and it rocks so hard. Basically, you're wandering arounda zombie infested city(or military base, or mall, or woods, depending on what expansions sets you have) trying to find a helicopter to take you to saftey before the other players. What makes the game really interesting are the event cards which you can use to both help you, and royally fuck over your opponents.

[stokeriño]

Chess and Risk would have to be my favourites. I dislike word games like Scrabble, because my vocab tends to be patchy at best. Also Monopoly, the Game of Life, Go For Broke, Pictionary, Cluedo, Mah Jong (even though it doesn't technically have a board, it does have the tiles all set up...), Mouse Trap(!), Connect 4, and some game called 'Taxi!' where you're taxi drivers in London, are all ones I can think of that I've played and enjoyed. And if you really want to go old school...Hungry frikkin' Hippos bitch!

I remember really wanting Risk for Christmas when I was like 8...that fact now disturbs me. I also wanted Sratego, but I never got it.

I'm the only 'game player' in my family, which sucks. None of them like board games enough to play with me, and they argue that "It's no fun, you'd just win". First of all, ENJOY THE FRIKKIN GAME. And second of all, if you play you'll get better. Fools.

I do have an uber-competative friend who I'll sometimes play at Chess, Monopoly, Risk etc...but then I always win, so that doesn't last very long.

People suck.

Edited March 25, 2005 by stokeriño

[Troy Maskell]

I've decided that once again I'm a big fan of board games.

They're the new computer games y'know...

Anyone else love a good game of Monopoly, Cluedo or anything a bit deeper?

If so, post your favourite games in here cos I'm always up for new suggestions to spend my money on.

Stratego

Kinda like chess, but you don't know what your opponent's pieces are.

Civilisation The Boardgame

Sid Meier's - how cool is that?! Based on the computer game with a huge four foot board and of course multiplayer!

Campaign

Napoleonic Warfare. Slightly confusing but great when you get started.

Risk

The classic war world domination game. A game can last a week. I love this game.

Settlers Of Catan

Board game of the year for loads of years apparantly. Build towns, roads and strategically place them to mine more produce.

Monopoly

It's just the classic. Great fun to play, though not so great with just two players.

Scrabble

Classic word play. Just really playable and I normally beat my wife so enjoy it.

Really Nasty Horse Racing Game

A great game where you bet on your horse or others, run a race and can screw other people's chances of winning a race to make more money.

I like loads of other games but they're the ones I can think of right now...

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I put all of those amongst my favourite. Another one is a second horse racing game "Totopoly" dunno if it's still out in shops but it was a two in one game, on the one hand you started off buying the stables and the horses and "training" them and on the other you simply raced them. They ran together too so you could start out with a horse each and back them and put money into buying new horses and so on. Great game that was actually.

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Edited March 25, 2005 by Troy Maskell

[IAceI]

Chess, it takes knowledge and tactical ability to make it so the king has no way of moving without getting into checkmate - so nearly every game I play is a draw. Except when my grandad played with me, and he'd kick my ass so badly.

[The Hardcore Canuck]

RISK is my game. Other then my first game, I have never lost a game. I have beaten people in one hour, and in twenty hours (that game was wicked).

[sirdavinator]

Monopoly and Scrabble are my favourites. I suck at chess, so I don't like it too much. I haven't been playing board games lately because no one ever plays with me...so, yeah.