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It's probably somewhat strange to ask computer addicts like y'all this question, but do any of you play boardgames? If so, which ones? What are your favourites, and which ones do you loathe?
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We haven't really played board games recently, but we do have the following:
Triominoes
X-Files (can't remember the name, it's got a video)
Dungeons & Dragons (based on the cartoon)
Frogger
Cluedo
Simpson's Cluedo
There's probably more, but I can't be bothered to go downstairs to find out :-P
Oh, we used to have Ker-Plunk when I was a kid, been thinking about getting it again recently :-D
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ludo
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I'm not really one for boardgames, though I do like Balderdash (I'm pretty wicked at fooling people with phony definitions).
Most despised game moment is probably the time a bunch of drunk chicks forced me into a few rounds of the "Scooby Doo" boardgame..
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I have to agree: Balderdash is the king of board games, especially for crafty customers such as myself. Actually, my opponents call me a lying, manipulative ferret, who does nothing without a pinch of chicanery :lol:
Other games that I enjoy:
Scrabble
Cluedo (only if playing with cheeky oppononents. I was once frustrated with a particular player's refusal to show me the card I needed to see, for quite some time. It was really funny, because he knew that I knew he had it, and he even kept it sticking a little up from the other cards in his hand so I could be reminded what I was missing. Trouble was, he always had the other two cards necessary to dispel the accusation and he would show me one of those instead, with exaggerated pomp and flourish).
But....the daddy of all games (not a board game, but in the same class), is UNO. Yep, good old UNO that kids play. But...I developed a new set of rules for it. This was born of a few nights at the hospital where we found our staffroom being invaded by trauma surgeons, paramedics and nurses, looking to socialise because the hospital was closed to all admissions. I cooked up the most devious, wicked, punishing rules for that game, known as the South African rules. It was great. There isn't much that will hold a trauma surgeon's attention, but that game did. It was so popular in fact that the orthopaedic surgeons joined in, and one of them made a trophy out of plaster of Paris: a highly-sought after trophy that I still have today. We had a couple of German doctors over to study trauma and they were soon swearing and cursing, trying to get their names on the trophy.
Great fun. I miss those days.
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Greetings,
Long before I got my C=64, I used to have boardgames too.
One of them, my all time faveorite was Monopoly and SORRY. I tried snake and ladders. I got tired from all of it later on when I saw the A1000 playing Marble Madness. That pretty much change everything. :-)
Regards,
Gizz72
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My non-PC/Amiga/PS2 gaming habits?
I used to play Blackjack a great deal with a pal of mine, we used to bet on matchsticks as currency.
Once at college, drinking themed card games were popular, although I remember one memorable student party when I ended up playing drunken Twister with a lass who had more than a passing interest in me :-D
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I used to like Space Crusade and Hero Quest, but I'm a bit old for them now.
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I'm actually kind-of surprised that noone here mentions modern things like, for example, Settlers of Catan, War of the Ring, Puerto Rico, etcetera. Can anyone tell me what they are ;-)?
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A game I love but can't find is (called something like) "jeu d'affairs", where you ran an oil company against up to 4 other players... the first to reach $1000000 won the game...
But no one seems to remember it :-(
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Cymric wrote:
It's probably somewhat strange to ask computer addicts like y'all this question, but do any of you play boardgames? If so, which ones? What are your favourites, and which ones do you loathe?
Risk, poker (both with cards as well as dices), oh, ehm, the latter is no boardgame... Well, these games I play most, there are probably a hell of a lot more games I play, but I can't think of them atm
Still want to play Axis&Allies
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My favourite, still these days is Chess!
Others are:
Cluedo, Risk, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit (and a bunch of strategy games like Diplomacy etc. which I don't own but a crazy friend of mine is a collector of such games, and always calls for a play after he has read the rules -obviously having an advantage over me that I have no idea about his latest bought game!- ).
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Monopoly, Chess, Risk, and Kasta gris (No idea if it exists in English).
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whabang wrote:
Kasta gris
Undoubtly that game is made of plain wood :lol:
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We have Clue. On Assignment(by National Geographic), and Bible Trivia (I would play Physical Science Trivia with equal relish if only it existed!) I got rather burned out on Monopoly years ago.
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Ah, I'm a big boardgame fan, I have an old group of friends that always play these games when we get together:
Die Siedler
We have the German version with all the 6 player expansions etc as the Brit one didn't come out till a little later, I have the Dutch version, and bought the 'Alexander/Cheops' expansion in Berlin last September...great stuff. Even played at a tournament of this in London
Dungeon Quest
A vintage Games Workshop game from early 80s based on an old Swedish game called Drakborg (or whatever the Swedish for 'Dragon's castle' is)
Axis and Allies
One of my personal favourites - very involved, takes a long time
Shogun
Classic strategy game set in Japan. How could anyone play that heap of bleep, Risk, is beyond me.
Scrabble
I love it, but none of my friends do. So I play it about once a year :-(
Blood Bowl
Another classic played with old schoolfriends when we get together. A great game, but you don't really have time to play tournaments of this when you get to adult life. There's an excellent Java version of it called fumbbl or something - haven't played it in about a year
Escape from Colditz
Another classic, but a lot of my friends don't like it. Played rarely
Space Hulk
A GW classic, play it once a year or so.
Chess
No introduction needed
I'm sure there are plenty of others I've forgotten
edit:
Yep, I forgot...
Starfarers (by Klaus Teuber of Die Siedler fame)
Brittania
Blood Royale
El Grande
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Othello (reversi)
Penti
Chess
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
whabang wrote:
Kasta gris
Undoubtly that game is made of plain wood :lol:
Errr... No...
It's made of plastic and it means "Throw pig". Basically a form of Yatzee.
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Honestly guys, I don't wish to seem arrogant, but Risk is a pile of bleep (all IMHO of course) once you've played other strategy games.
For example, in Shogun you have to build up a large force slowly, but in Risk, you can magically put a huge army on one country in one turn and sweep across the board. If you don't succeed in taking over the whole world, one of your opponents puts a massive army on one country and sweeps back across the world.
In most other strategy games its more...err, tactical than that. You have to use forward thinking. If you want to build up numerical superiority, you have to plan it carefully in advance. You can only capture neighbouring territories in one turn, so its impossible to sweep across the whole board with a few good dice rolls.
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Vincent wrote:
Dungeons & Dragons (based on the cartoon)
I always thought it was the other way round?? :-)
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Apples to Apples is a wonderful card game...Munchkin is a brilliantly vicious card game.
Otherwise...Go, Pente, Chess, Scrabble, Scattergories, Pictionary, Balderdash, and Cranium are my favorites involving boards.
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Wain wrote:
Apples to Apples is a wonderful card game...Munchkin is a brilliantly vicious card game.
Otherwise...Go, Pente, Chess, Scrabble, Scattergories, Pictionary, Balderdash, and Cranium are my favorites involving boards.
Hehe, Munchkin is cool.
And all the silly expansions as well...
Now, GO, that's an AMAZING game. Possibly the best board game ever...
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but Risk is a pile of bleep (all IMHO of course) once you've played other strategy games.
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I agree RISK sucks as a strategy game, but it's fun, the strategy is usually to gang up on someone so they loose, before you loose. Playing RISK once a year is more than enough though.
If you include card games, a game of HEARTS, 5 players, can't be beat.
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Vincent wrote:
X-Files (can't remember the name, it's got a video)
I think I have that one, it's just called the X-Files (or X-Files Trivia Game, or something) :-)
I generally loathe boardgames. Trivial Pursuits, Monopoly, etc. They make me want to puke.
But I like Scrabble... Uhh, and snakes and ladders. I can play a half-arsed game of chess. And ludo (I used to like MB's Frustration, which was ludo-based)... although some ludo boards look worryingly anti-semetic:
(http://www.geocities.com/hirak_99/goodies/ludo.jpg)
Is it just me who sees that?
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Is it just me who sees that?
but it's in COLORS!!!!
Pretty! :-D
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that_punk_guy wrote:
Is it just me who sees that?
it's NOT a swastika, since a swastika is other way around
I think this game is called "Mens Erger Je Niet" (translated: human do not be bothered)
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
it's NOT a swastika, since a swastika is other way around
Er...if you're thinking of Hitler's symbol you're wrong, his swastika is clockwise, as in that game's board. However there are numerous other swastikas in the other direction I think.
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I knew I would mix up something there :-)