Board games

[maquiscat]

So this weekend, we are headed out to Metatopia, a con where board game designers present games for concept testing, alpha testing and beta testing. In some cases, the games are being brought from Europe and they are seeing how best to set them up for American customers.

So I thought I'd see what games everyone likes. Yeah I did this last year about this time, but didn't want to necro the thread.

We are also demonstrators. One of our favorites and always a top request is the One Night Ultimate series. We have Werewolf, Daybreak, Vampire, and Aliens. We are also now demonstrating the latest, Werewords.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service and Battlestations 2nd ed. are two great new games we are loving.

Want to have some fun with old classics? Run For Your Life, Candyman and Shootin' Ladders are fun twists on your your childhood favorites.

We're still waiting on the last expansion for Sentinals of the Multiverse, and the companion game Sentinals of Earth Prime. So looking forward to it.

The list of our favorites could go on. These are just a few. What do you play? Maybe you can turn us on to something new.

 

[Quag]

Well of course I have played monopoly, life, and mousetrap as a kid and with my kids.
Later I liked Risk and Axis and Allies, until we figured out the strategy and realized the Axis could never win without a ludicrous amount of luck on their side (Saw Germany invade and conquer England before England even had a turn)
Diplomacy is fun but I wouldn't call it a board game really.
I do like Zombies that is always a good beer game

 

[Praxas]

So this weekend, we are headed out to Metatopia, a con where board game designers present games for concept testing, alpha testing and beta testing. In some cases, the games are being brought from Europe and they are seeing how best to set them up for American customers.

So I thought I'd see what games everyone likes. Yeah I did this last year about this time, but didn't want to necro the thread.

We are also demonstrators. One of our favorites and always a top request is the One Night Ultimate series. We have Werewolf, Daybreak, Vampire, and Aliens. We are also now demonstrating the latest, Werewords.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service and Battlestations 2nd ed. are two great new games we are loving.

Want to have some fun with old classics? Run For Your Life, Candyman and Shootin' Ladders are fun twists on your your childhood favorites.

We're still waiting on the last expansion for Sentinals of the Multiverse, and the companion game Sentinals of Earth Prime. So looking forward to it.

The list of our favorites could go on. These are just a few. What do you play? Maybe you can turn us on to something new.

For Nostalgia we play "Life" since it was a game both my wife and I played with our parents and family.

We also like the "theme" based Clue games, like the Supernatural Series Clue Game and Doctor Who Clue game.

Most of the time though we play card games and dominoes as a family.

 

[americanwoman]

So this weekend, we are headed out to Metatopia, a con where board game designers present games for concept testing, alpha testing and beta testing. In some cases, the games are being brought from Europe and they are seeing how best to set them up for American customers.

So I thought I'd see what games everyone likes. Yeah I did this last year about this time, but didn't want to necro the thread.

We are also demonstrators. One of our favorites and always a top request is the One Night Ultimate series. We have Werewolf, Daybreak, Vampire, and Aliens. We are also now demonstrating the latest, Werewords.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service and Battlestations 2nd ed. are two great new games we are loving.

Want to have some fun with old classics? Run For Your Life, Candyman and Shootin' Ladders are fun twists on your your childhood favorites.

We're still waiting on the last expansion for Sentinals of the Multiverse, and the companion game Sentinals of Earth Prime. So looking forward to it.

The list of our favorites could go on. These are just a few. What do you play? Maybe you can turn us on to something new.

We play mostly basic games like Yahtzee, Sorry, and card games. I recently picked up a Rummikub game at a garage sale and my daughter loves it so we've been playing that one a lot lately.

Also love playing Loteria, which is kind of a Mexican bingo game.

 

[Winchester]

Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride.

Back in the day I used to love playing Avalon Hill games. Luftwaffe and Richtofen's War were a favorites, I learned so much about WWI & WWII airplanes. They even had a Starship Troopers game that we played... IIRC playing the skinnys sucked. I remember once I actually beat my friend playing the Arab-Israeli Wars... being the Arabs.

Here's a list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Avalon_Hill_games

 

[pillars]

My husband and I love splendor and ticket to ride. We own pandemic but it's very hard to win that game as a 2 person game. I would love to get some suggestions of new games that are good for 2 people.

 

[justabubba]

if there are any new bored games as interesting as backgammon, chess, or go, please tell us about them

 

[maquiscat]

My husband and I love splendor and ticket to ride. We own pandemic but it's very hard to win that game as a 2 person game. I would love to get some suggestions of new games that are good for 2 people.

Off the top of my head: Dead Man's Draw, Love Letter or any similar variant, Epic PvP, Twilight of the Gods (a CCG game with mechanics similar to M:tG), Castallen, Port Royal, Ghost Love Candy, Battlestations could work, Zombie Dice, Dino Hunt Dice, Trophy Buck. A couple might do better as 3+, but those should all be playable by two players. I'll look up more when we're off the road.

 

[Lutherf]

So this weekend, we are headed out to Metatopia, a con where board game designers present games for concept testing, alpha testing and beta testing. In some cases, the games are being brought from Europe and they are seeing how best to set them up for American customers.

So I thought I'd see what games everyone likes. Yeah I did this last year about this time, but didn't want to necro the thread.

We are also demonstrators. One of our favorites and always a top request is the One Night Ultimate series. We have Werewolf, Daybreak, Vampire, and Aliens. We are also now demonstrating the latest, Werewords.

Wasteland Express Delivery Service and Battlestations 2nd ed. are two great new games we are loving.

Want to have some fun with old classics? Run For Your Life, Candyman and Shootin' Ladders are fun twists on your your childhood favorites.

We're still waiting on the last expansion for Sentinals of the Multiverse, and the companion game Sentinals of Earth Prime. So looking forward to it.

The list of our favorites could go on. These are just a few. What do you play? Maybe you can turn us on to something new.

It's not "Shootin' Ladders". It's "Chutes and Ladders".

Anyway, Monopoly is still the king of board games as far as I'm concerned but Risk ranks right up there. I was also partial to Mouse Trap back in the day.

 

[maquiscat]

if there are any new bored games as interesting as backgammon, chess, or go, please tell us about them

Well if you like strategy games, Terrence would be good. It was a game seen in several episode of Star Trek:The Next Generation. And it is surprisingly fun, and very much a strategy game, in that same mind set. Some lighter ones, with some randomization factors: Ticket to Ride, Tsuro and Tsuro of the Seas, Wasteland Express Delivery Service, Carcassone, Settlers of Catan.

 

[Lutherf]

For Nostalgia we play "Life" since it was a game both my wife and I played with our parents and family.

We also like the "theme" based Clue games, like the Supernatural Series Clue Game and Doctor Who Clue game.

Most of the time though we play card games and dominoes as a family.

Life still gives me nightmares. I have 4 female cousins who loved to play that game. There I'd be stuck in their basement at 5 years old with 3 kids in the car and waning job prospects as they just laughed. It was pretty traumatic.:lol:

 

[Quag]

if there are any new bored games as interesting as backgammon, chess, or go, please tell us about them

Try diplomacy but you need at least 3 players, the more the better

 

[maquiscat]

It's not "Shootin' Ladders". It's "Chutes and Ladders".

Anyway, Monopoly is still the king of board games as far as I'm concerned but Risk ranks right up there. I was also partial to Mouse Trap back in the day.

No it's Shootin' Ladders, by Smirk and Dagger Games. It is a parody game of Chures and Ladders, as much as Run For Your Life, Candyman is a parody game of Candyland.

 

[Lutherf]

No it's Shootin' Ladders, by Smirk and Dagger Games. It is a parody game of Chures and Ladders, as much as Run For Your Life, Candyman is a parody game of Candyland.

Well then, that's a new one on me!

 

[maquiscat]

Well then, that's a new one on me!

Actually very new. Two of my spouses are part of Envoy, which demos games for several companies. Shootin' just came out earlier this year, and was part of our splash cycle. Candyman is older, but has its second edition released about the same time.

 

[Mr Person]

Chess

Quarto

Settler's of Catan

Carcasonne

 

[Southern Dad]

I am still a believer in Family Game Night. I've got way too many versions of Trivial Pursuit, Life, Sorry, Parcheesi, Apples to Apples, Monopoly, and if the little ones are around Chutes & Ladders.

 

[PTF]

Well of course I have played monopoly, life, and mousetrap as a kid and with my kids.
Later I liked Risk and Axis and Allies, until we figured out the strategy and realized the Axis could never win without a ludicrous amount of luck on their side (Saw Germany invade and conquer England before England even had a turn)
Diplomacy is fun but I wouldn't call it a board game really.
I do like Zombies that is always a good beer game

We are playing Monopoly later tonight.

 

[maquiscat]

I am still a believer in Family Game Night. I've got way too many versions of Trivial Pursuit, Life, Sorry, Parcheesi, Apples to Apples, Monopoly, and if the little ones are around Chutes & Ladders.

Most of the games I listed are good for Family Game Night. And for the little ones, a great new game is Sparkle Kitty. It'll help them if they are learning to read words, and is so good for all ages, that we pulled die hard Magic the Gathering players away from their game to join us. Right in the middle of their game. Just laid their cards down and joined us.

 

[maquiscat]

if there are any new bored games as interesting as backgammon, chess, or go, please tell us about them

You asked. You receive. Found a great new game (beta tested) that is pure strategy. A little tic tac toe, with some connect four thrown in and a rotations mechanic for further complexity. The game is called Quest 4. You have four boards of 4 squares each (2x2) to form a 4x4 play area. Each player has four set of stacking (they fit inside each other, each piece taller than the previous when going from outside in) pieces, 16 pieces total. You place a piece in any of the 16 squares, and then you select one of the 4 boards and rotate it 90 degrees, either direction. Advance play has you only rotating clockwise. So the board chances with the placement of each piece. Because the pieces nest, you can play multiple pieces in th same square, even with an opponent's piece. You win by getting 4 of the same level horizontally, vertically or diagonally, or by four in a row, one of each level, in any direction, including straight up (nested within each other). Very challenging game and chess like in needing to think multiple moves ahead. Be sure to look for it on Kickstarter.

 

[maquiscat]

For those that are interested, and assuming that it does not violate TOS (mods?) I will post if and when the new games we saw this weekend get published or hit Kickstarter. I will try to find time to do a review of what we saw and played. I am very excited for those I played.

 

[Helix]

my wife and i love board games. this one is probably our favorite :



it's a great game. you draw cards, and stack them low to high. when you play a card, you get to place or move a piece in order to collect points and artifacts. board looks like this :



the game ends when the cards run out, and typically, three rounds are played. at the end, the artifacts and points are added up, and the player who has collected the most is the winner.