Favorite Board Games

[sun-star]

I like Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly, but my new favourite game is called Apples to Apples. I think it's an American game, which makes the game a lot more complicated and a lot funnier!

I have a horror of games like Diplomacy and Risk though, from all those hours-long Christmas-time sessions when my brother would force us to play and then reveal the rules one by one as we went along, so that he would always win...

[The Gaffer]

Heh heh. Sounds familiar. Risk can be a gruesome ordeal.

I find any board game which lasts longer than 1.5 hrs is too much, but I suppose that's a matter of taste.

In my view, the best game in the world ever is the Judge Dredd board game. 1-2 hrs long, fast moving and loads of being nasty to the other players. I've also got an ancient game called Buccaneer which is groovy for an hour or two's entertainment.

[mithrand1r]

Originally Posted by Gamigar

What are YOUR favorite board games?

Hard to pick a single favorite, so I will list several games that I enjoy playing.

Scotland Yard
NY Chase (similar to Scotland Yard)
Clue
Parchessi
Sorry
Scrabble
Upwords (Similar to Scrabble)
Risk
Kwa-Do (actually a card game, but fun to play with 2-6 people)
Monopoly
Stratego
Chess
Backgammon
Life
Trivial Pursuit
Diplomacy
Advanced Civilization

[Earniel]

Trivial pursuit is perhaps my favourite. But my friends no longer want to play it with me because I won three times out of three when we last played it. *sigh*

I would have said Rumicub until I realised that wasn't a board game.

[katya]

I like Scattergories (another party game I guess) because you can use your imagination, and I'm pretty good at that game. I also like monopoly, with the right group of people. It's only fun if you don't play too seriously.

In days of old I really liked Candly Land and Pretty Pretty Princess. PPP was this game where you went around a board, and you would land on a piece of jewelry. Your goal was to collect all the pieces, minus the "black ring" which would keep you disqualified, and then get the crown and become a Pretty Pretty Princess. Sometimes when I didn't have anyone to play with, I'd use either my stuffed animals or my dad.

[Mercutio]

Balderdash
Monopoly
Scrabble
Risk

[Rían]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

I would have said Rumicub until I realised that wasn't a board game.

Oh, do you like Rumicub?! That's a favorite among our family. My brother-in-law learned it when he married into our family, and he's very competitive, and came up with a question that wasn't covered by the rules, and actually wrote to the company - and they wrote back! They asked him to try both ways (the way it was written, it could be interpreted 2 ways) and write them back, giving his opinion on which was better.

Anyone here like cribbage? I just got the coolest set - my mom gave me a beautiful ivory (sorry, it's non-PC) board that's probably at least 50 years old that a neighbor gave to her. It has roses carved in it - really pretty.

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

Oh, do you like Rumicub?!

Jup. Although dad takes aaaaages to think through a move and usually ends up putting down a block in such an ingenious (read: complicated) way that half the rows of blocks are changed before he's rid of that one little block. Playing rumicub with the family *can* take long.

[Rían]

My older sister is like that - it gets kinda irritating (the time part, not the changing tiles around part). I think that if you don't have something in a few minutes, you should pass. It gets old very fast to have everyone else play at a decent/considerate pace, then it hits that one slow person and everything comes to a screeching halt.