Board Games

[Bixby]

I thought I would post a topic to see how many people are into playing board games. I have managed to amass quite a collection...
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/Bixby?gallery=small&own=1&ff=1

Some of the current faves are...
...Formula De - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/173
...Wings Of War Miniatures - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22510
...RoboRally - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18
...Carcassonne (With all of the Expansions)
...Shogun - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20551
...HeroScape - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11170
...Kremlin - http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/196

If people are interested in boardgames, what are your faves? Any traders? Yada Yada ya...

[Melbosa]

I'm not up on the new ones, but I own some classics, and enjoy them:

• Blauderdash
• Crainium
• Monopoly
• Simpson's Clue
• Axies and Allies
• Chess
• Game of Life

[Bixby]

Cool Melbosa...
...I really need to introduce you to some modern (non Parker Brothers) games though...

When do you head to Winnipeg next?

[Melbosa]

I was just there in September, but I flew (so cheap it was!).

Yeah I know, my board games are so limited.  I've always played more cards than board games, or PB-RPGs.

As for next heading to the 'Peg... oh I'm sure it will be next year sometime.

[Mr. Analog]

No Settlers of Catan?

Incidentally, I still have a sealed box of Settlers for Magnus.

[Tom]

My dad has an entire large cabinet full of board games. All mostly from the 70s to the 90s.

Of course some of the games have been around longer than that.. Like Risk, and Monopoly and stuff...

I'd have to say my favorites are the Farming Game, Risk, one with oil drilling (cant recall the proper name, its played on a big blue plastic box), and a Risk like board game thats more involved (all sorts of boats and planes and tanks and stuff).

[Lazybones]

bluebox oil game is international oilman. It's is a great game.

[Mags]

No Settlers of Catan?

Incidentally, I still have a sealed box of Settlers for Magnus.

Oh now you ruined the surprise.

[Darren Dirt]

a Risk like board game thats more involved (all sorts of boats and planes and tanks and stuff).

Axis & Allies.

[Tom]

a Risk like board game thats more involved (all sorts of boats and planes and tanks and stuff).

Axis & Allies.

Aha, thats the one

[Mr. Analog]

No Settlers of Catan?

Incidentally, I still have a sealed box of Settlers for Magnus.

Oh now you ruined the surprise.

well, I guess I won't have to wrap it now, whew! Even a chronic procrastinator like myself was starting to buckle under the pressure.

[Bixby]

No Settlers of Catan?
Incidentally, I still have a sealed box of Settlers for Magnus.

I kind of grew tired of Settlers after a number of plays. It just lost it's lustre for me. I like Carcassonne much better as a gateway game and with the variety of expansions it has tons of replayability.

[Darren Dirt]

I like Carcassonne much better as a gateway game and with the variety of expansions it has tons of replayability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus-J%C3%BCrgen_Wrede
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_designers

interesting to see such a nice long list of designers, there.


"games" are not just VIDEO games, Generation Whiners!!

^ smart guy.

[Darren Dirt]

On the weekend I was at Value Village with my girls (letting them get a new plushy or two) and AMAZINGLY* I found "Twin Cities".

We played it that night starting at 8:00pm, and by about 8:20 had the gameplay fully understood (simple, and easy within just a few dice rolls).

At 10:30 we finally ended the game (I "shortened" it by adjusting a couple of rules, and made a generous "cheat" if a 7 was rolled, to the benefit of both of them so one would win ) and my youngest was all like "can we play again tomorrow Daddy?"

Board Games are not dead, hooray! There is still hope in the new, short-attention-span, electronics-addicted generation having the same fond memories of socializing over something other than blinking-lights-screens as we old-timers cherish.



*Amazingly, cuz it had ALL THE PIECES! For $3.99, what a deal!

The object of the game is to choose two city sites across the river from each other and join them with a minimum of six road pieces and one bridge. The city sites are placed at the intersection of hexagonal pieces which have numbers on them, and each turn dice are rolled and cities adjacent to pieces with the rolled numbers produce resources, just as in Settlers of Catan, The. Also as in Settlers, players trade resources with each other and then use them to build roads and bridges. Unlike Settlers, Twin Cities uses three dice with 1-5 and a question mark on the faces; rolling question marks gives you action cards, and rolling certain combinations has special effects.

Game contents include:
12 city pieces
66 interlocking plastic board pieces
8 board frame pieces
360 resource cards
85 action cards
72 road pieces
24 bridge pieces
3 dice
1 board piece bag

Tokens: Check.
Hex pieces: Check.
Board frame: Check.
"Construction" cards: Check(kinda like the money in Monopoly; I didn't count them,  but we never ran out ).
Action cards: Check (kinda like Chance/CommunityChest in Monopoly)
Road pieces, bridge pieces: Check
Dice: all 3 CHECK! (lucky too, because as described above, it's a kinda unique dice )
Board piece BAG (very handy, check!)

:happy sigh: I'm so glad I don't see myself as "above" second hand stores and thrift stores and the like... My kids would not have been exposed to such a diverse collection of board games otherwise (at times past, have found games from the 1960s and even the 1930s!) LOL!

[Bixby]

Congrats DD. Nice find, reminds me of when I got a 1979 copy of Dune (unpunched) for 10 cents. 

I think playing boardgames gives people, (especially kids), critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Fitness for the Mind.

Our group is expanding and some of the members want to start bringing their kids to our board game nights. Fun, engaging, social, challenging, wholesome. - What more could you want in a hobby? Oh, yes, add a premium craft beer or two to the gathering and it is perfect.