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    Favourite board games

    My top 5.

    5. Pictionary
    4. A Question of Sport
    3. Trivial Pursuit
    2. Escape From Colditz
    1. 221B Baker Street

    #2
    Favourite board games

    5 Scrabble
    4 Mastermind
    3 Trivial Pursuit
    2 Sequence
    1 Yahtzee

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      #3
      Favourite board games

      Oooh, the new one that I've yet to play, which I was teased with over the weekend:

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        #4
        Favourite board games

        I'm really good at Cluedo, so that.

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          #5
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          Haven't played this for YEARS!

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            #6
            Favourite board games

            Downfall! because I'm damn near unbeatable at it.

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              #7
              Favourite board games

              1. Shut the box
              2. Scrabble
              3. Chess
              4. Yahtzee (which i haven't played in ages)
              5. Uno.

              I used to love Othello as a kid but haven't played in ages.

              Actually, I am not sure whether a lot of games mentioned are board games necessarily. A lot are dice games. Does Connect 4 count? I love Connect 4.

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                #8
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                I play Scrabble with my mum. She is unseemly when she wins.

                A pen, paper 'n dice game rather than a boardgame, but I used to love Call Of Cthulhu.

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                  #9
                  Favourite board games

                  Played this on Sunday

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                    #10
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                    I didn't realise "we" were so retro.

                    No Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, or their progeny?

                    I seem to recall those having been discussed before.

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                      #11
                      Favourite board games

                      This is a Ticket to Ride house.

                      But Axis & Allies.

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                        #12
                        Favourite board games

                        Talisman for me. It's like Dungeons and Dragons meets Monopoly.

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                          #13
                          Favourite board games

                          Best games to play with my 10, 7 and 7 year olds. ie, this list is exclusively games we enjoy together. Given that younger twin loses interest in many games, these are the ones she does stick with. The other two are happy to play anything, though if older twin has a piece taken in Frustration, she gets, well, frustrated. Unless it's her grandmother, in which case she is happy to lose.

                          1. Labyrinth
                          2. Enchanted Forest (not a difficult game, but lot of laughs and engages all three of them, which is a rarity)
                          3. Monopoly Olympic edition. Has ace third 'Mr Monopoly' dice which accelerates game and causes chaos.
                          4. Battleships. Obviously not all four play at the same time.
                          5. Indigo.

                          I am the only person I am aware of who enjoys a card/dominoes game called Mapominoes. Started with Europe edition, also have Africa, Asia and the (inferior cos too big) UK version.

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                            #14
                            Favourite board games

                            Ah, the hours I've spent playing Talisman...

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                              #15
                              Favourite board games

                              1. Carcassonne
                              2. Trivial Pursuits
                              3. Scrabble
                              4. Puerto Rico
                              5. Ticket to Ride

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                                #16
                                Favourite board games

                                1. Risk
                                2. Totopoly
                                3. Buccaneer
                                4. Monopoly
                                5. Soccerama

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                                  #17
                                  Favourite board games

                                  1. Scrabble
                                  2. Cards Against Humanity
                                  3. Yahtzee
                                  4. Boggle
                                  5. Mille Bornes

                                  (I accept that only one of these actually has a board, so I'm probably cheating).

                                  edit:

                                  Oops.

                                  And

                                  1.5ish: Diplomacy, although it's so long since I played, I'm not sure it actually counts any more.

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                                    #18
                                    Favourite board games

                                    1. Battlestar Galactica
                                    Probably the best marriage of theme and design ever. A brilliantly executed co-op game with a traitor mechanic. It helps the atmosphere if you're a fan of the show, but it's completely unnecessary.

                                    2. Twilight Struggle
                                    I think I could play this game for ever. A wonderful two-player cold war wargame where you fight with influence rather than armies. The game just gets more rewarding the more you play it as you learn the deck better and develop strategies to mitigate the risk of dangerous cards.

                                    3. Ticket To Ride
                                    Probably the best family game. Very simple to learn, but enough strategy to remain interesting over repeated plays.

                                    4. Money/High Society
                                    Two quite similar auction games by Reiner Knizia where bidding and scoring use the same cards. Every hand played involves an opportunity cost.

                                    5. Galaxy Trucker

                                    A very silly, fun game about "designing" spaceships under time pressure from an assortment of tiles and then flying them on perilous cargo routes through space.

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                                      #19
                                      Favourite board games

                                      Power Grid is great, by the way, TonTon. My main tip is not to try for the long game. Early leads seem to pay off for the most part. Also don't be tempted to overbuy capacity - it's much more important to have cities connected.

                                      Though bear in mind that's based on a grand total of three games played.

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                                        #20
                                        Favourite board games

                                        Good call on Milles Bornes, LLR. I left it and Uno off due to their board deficiency.

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                                          #21
                                          Favourite board games

                                          Anyone else play Stratego?

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                                            #22
                                            Favourite board games

                                            1. Mage Knight
                                            2. Pandemic
                                            3. Tsuro
                                            - Get Bit / Coup (not boards but still...)
                                            5. Kill Dr. Lucky (or other cheapass games)

                                            I'd put Galaxy Truckers, but I've only played it once and thought it was great.

                                            I've burnt out (and unburnt out) several times on Ticket to Ride and Carcassone, but own neither except as apps.

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                                              #23
                                              Favourite board games

                                              Anyone else play Stratego?
                                              I played it a ton as a kid, because for some reason there was a copy at school, but I haven't played it for 20 years. There's a new, single-player oriented iOS version coming out soon, by the way.

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                                                #24
                                                Favourite board games

                                                Also played it often as a kid.

                                                It was a precursor to Risk, which was a precursor to Diplomacy

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                                                  #25
                                                  Favourite board games

                                                  Stratego, Risk and Diplomacy are all very different and all classic games.

                                                  Ticket to ride is good. Other favorites are:
                                                  -Through the Desert
                                                  -Pirate's Cove
                                                  -Who's the Boss (negotiation-based game)

                                                  If you like Risk, there is an online version started in Canada that is based on this game but is 100 times better, adding many interesting layers: 200+ different maps (many very strategic and complex), multiplayer teams where you can deploy your troops on your teammates territories, "fog" mode where you can only see opponents that are adjacent to your territories (a bit like in Stratego, adding tension and complexity) and so forth.

                                                  I've played about 500 games in the last 3 years and now rank in the top 100 out of 10,000. Here are a few representative maps:



                                                  NYC - you get bonus troops for holding subway lines as well as districts/color blocks


                                                  A labyrinth map, where you can only attack and move along the arrows


                                                  Stalingrad 1941 - airplanes, artillery, boats and snipers galore

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