@Pavlov eh, the Red Dragon Inn drags on for too long. You get bored of being buzzed while the person at the end of the table is puking out their liver.
@pakopako@Pavlov Seems like not a good thing. Might as well go back to playing quarters and using a beer bong (Oh, college flashbacks…) it was fun at the time.
Cards against humanity! With all its extra packs. And of course, as a board game, you probably got D&D. Yes I Love Exploding kittens. I also have the app from my iPad. That’s probably one of the more used apps I have.
@mycya4me D&D has a board game? Eh, I guess anything can be merchandised these days. (Except Spaceballs. Which is why my “Spaceballs: The Dice Bag” is an embroidered bootleg.)
@werehatrack I have not found a community I can actually play D&D with, I I will not be playing those games orLARPS at a convention. I am Hey, I just seen my friends do stuff with him. See some of the programming the games take most of the convention to play too much time. Now with my 3-D printer I have about 40+ different dice towers I can print.
@mycya4me@yakkoTDI … which have been going on for thousands of years. The history of domestication of cats is sketchy (at least 10000 years). I heard it was Egyptians but probably went on many places.
Humans grew grains.
Rodents liked the grains.
Humans didn’t like rodents eating the grains.
They (being semi-intelligent humans) realized that cats eliminating rodents was a good thing.
Cats (being super-intelligent) figured out it was a good deal for them, and learned to tolerate the humans.
Depends on who you’re playing with.
For adults, or kids old enough, a good Scrabble game or Monopoly can be fun, but not for small children.
I’m for age appropriate games so everyone can have a good time!
Love board games with lots of depth. Agricola, Caverna, Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, Twilight Imperium(for the politics part of the game), Viticulture, Power Grid…
Simple games for social gatherings, complex games for game nights. It’s Ckeckers versus Chess; or “Life” and “Sorry” versus “Axis and Allies” and “Diplomacy”.
Well, “Diplomacy” is a simple game to learn, but the strategy is complex.
Growing up my family loved tabletop games. Family favorites included Mille Bornes and Racko. My brothers liked Stratego. I preferred Scrabble and Monopoly. I also loved Mousetrap.
@heartny OMG I LOVED Mille Bornes!! Played that and Stratego incessantly with my brother growing up. Who knew we were learning a little French back then?
Racko was also great but I only played ay my friend’s house
I like quick games, especially those that are portable. Something like Epic Galaxies (it has a lot of tokens) is the limit of complexity for me.
Carcassonne is incredibly modular (though you need a big table to play) - basically draw squares from a bag and try to place them next to another square in a form of city planning corruption (extending your highway while building a road into someone else’s half-finished apartment).
Point Salad is just cards in a strange way of mahjong; each card has a rules side and a fruit side and you have to pick and choose so that you have the right fruits to match up to your rules for maximum points (e.g. you collect rules that give points for every 3 or 4 tomatoes, but have only a stockpile of carrots because others are collecting tomatoes to score or to spite you)
Good Doggo (Bad Zombie) is a cooperative game to herd stupid humans toward safety while also guiding them away from zombies.
Just One is a neat party co-op kind of Cards Against Humanity. Each round, one player is the guesser and others write down a single word that is related to the keyword (without corroborating with other players to create a theme to guess); the writers show each other to eliminate duplicate clues (some groups may think so alike that the guesser will have no clues at all) and after multiple rounds, the game will determine if your group passed.
Anomia is another guessing party word game where you have to match how well your thesaurus and dictionary skills are.
Fire Tower is a large setup that’s good for families going head to head.
Oh, I’ve been enjoying some games on Board Games Arena (because the genes involve frequent cats shuffling) such as Challengers (drafting synergy) or San Juan (building separate towns on an island) or The Crew (cooperative trick taking).
Played a lot of Fluxx & its many variations with my brother and family.
But if jigsaw puzzles count they’re #1 in my book. Bought a beautiful German shepherd wooden puzzle from PuzzlesUp but haven’t put it together yet. (I think I get things like that as a reward for getting shit done but…)
I HAVE been seeing a lot of ads for The Uzzle game. It’s intriguing as a logic type puzzle board game for all ages; might be a good Christmas gift for the family. Anyone try it yet?
Those which involve imbibing alcoholic beverages.
@Pavlov eh, the Red Dragon Inn drags on for too long. You get bored of being buzzed while the person at the end of the table is puking out their liver.
@pakopako @Pavlov Seems like not a good thing. Might as well go back to playing quarters and using a beer bong (Oh, college flashbacks…) it was fun at the time.
Cards against humanity! With all its extra packs. And of course, as a board game, you probably got D&D. Yes I Love Exploding kittens. I also have the app from my iPad. That’s probably one of the more used apps I have.
@mycya4me D&D has a board game? Eh, I guess anything can be merchandised these days. (Except Spaceballs. Which is why my “Spaceballs: The Dice Bag” is an embroidered bootleg.)
@werehatrack I have not found a community I can actually play D&D with, I I will not be playing those games orLARPS at a convention. I am Hey, I just seen my friends do stuff with him. See some of the programming the games take most of the convention to play too much time. Now with my 3-D printer I have about 40+ different dice towers I can print.
@mycya4me @werehatrack one freeze frame I loved as a kid was seeing the merchandise table and noticing they were almost all Transformers merchandise.
@mycya4me bears vs babies is another good one.
/showme many real cats playing Cards against humanity
@mycya4me As opposed to their normal Cats Against Humanity games.
@mycya4me @yakkoTDI … which have been going on for thousands of years. The history of domestication of cats is sketchy (at least 10000 years). I heard it was Egyptians but probably went on many places.
Depends on who you’re playing with.
For adults, or kids old enough, a good Scrabble game or Monopoly can be fun, but not for small children.
I’m for age appropriate games so everyone can have a good time!
@Tadlem43 Monopoly is a great way to teach kids how boring and manipulative capitalism is.
@pakopako Because socialism is so much better, right? wow…
@Tadlem43 Same game, but more Go Directly To Jail cards, and instead of a top hat, strange hair!
@aetris @Tadlem43
Do a drive into the history of Monopoly some time.
Fascinating and somewhat ironic.
@chienfou Irony is pretty much guaranteed when it comes to politics, but I’d love one of the MI6 special editions!
I own A LOT of board games. Here’s three that are quick for a decent number of people…good for the upcoming holiday season:
For Sale
Trio
Secret Hitler
Quirkle proved to be a hit with our third-Thursday-evening game group.
Love board games with lots of depth. Agricola, Caverna, Puerto Rico, Race for the Galaxy, Twilight Imperium(for the politics part of the game), Viticulture, Power Grid…
So many good options.
Simple games for social gatherings, complex games for game nights. It’s Ckeckers versus Chess; or “Life” and “Sorry” versus “Axis and Allies” and “Diplomacy”.
Well, “Diplomacy” is a simple game to learn, but the strategy is complex.
Growing up my family loved tabletop games. Family favorites included Mille Bornes and Racko. My brothers liked Stratego. I preferred Scrabble and Monopoly. I also loved Mousetrap.
@heartny OMG I LOVED Mille Bornes!! Played that and Stratego incessantly with my brother growing up. Who knew we were learning a little French back then?
Racko was also great but I only played ay my friend’s house
@heartny @llangley Coup-fourré!!
I loved playing Mille Bornes as a kid.
I like quick games, especially those that are portable. Something like Epic Galaxies (it has a lot of tokens) is the limit of complexity for me.
Carcassonne is incredibly modular (though you need a big table to play) - basically draw squares from a bag and try to place them next to another square in a form of city planning corruption (extending your highway while building a road into someone else’s half-finished apartment).
Point Salad is just cards in a strange way of mahjong; each card has a rules side and a fruit side and you have to pick and choose so that you have the right fruits to match up to your rules for maximum points (e.g. you collect rules that give points for every 3 or 4 tomatoes, but have only a stockpile of carrots because others are collecting tomatoes to score or to spite you)
Good Doggo (Bad Zombie) is a cooperative game to herd stupid humans toward safety while also guiding them away from zombies.
Just One is a neat party co-op kind of Cards Against Humanity. Each round, one player is the guesser and others write down a single word that is related to the keyword (without corroborating with other players to create a theme to guess); the writers show each other to eliminate duplicate clues (some groups may think so alike that the guesser will have no clues at all) and after multiple rounds, the game will determine if your group passed.
Anomia is another guessing party word game where you have to match how well your thesaurus and dictionary skills are.
Fire Tower is a large setup that’s good for families going head to head.
Vertical set-up aside, Burgle Bros is fairly compact co-op heist game.
Space team, like the phone game, is a great shouting-over-each-other chaotic cooperative.
The Isla of Cats might go over well here (and there’s a solo mode too)
Sentinels of the Multiverse, Lets Go to Japan… I could go on all day
Oh, I’ve been enjoying some games on Board Games Arena (because the genes involve frequent cats shuffling) such as Challengers (drafting synergy) or San Juan (building separate towns on an island) or The Crew (cooperative trick taking).
Played a lot of Fluxx & its many variations with my brother and family.
But if jigsaw puzzles count they’re #1 in my book. Bought a beautiful German shepherd wooden puzzle from PuzzlesUp but haven’t put it together yet. (I think I get things like that as a reward for getting shit done but…)
I HAVE been seeing a lot of ads for The Uzzle game. It’s intriguing as a logic type puzzle board game for all ages; might be a good Christmas gift for the family. Anyone try it yet?
Tabletop games! Don’t you have to have friends for those?
None. Family game night is akin to c®ock and ball torture, albeit less fun.
Two of our favorites are Happy Salmon (note here) and Azul (gotta love a game that picks the starting player by who was in Portugal last…)
What about all those old Avalon Hill games? I love ACQUIRE, but it is an acquired taste, I suppose…
@IWUJackson I loved Acquire!