Great board games
humanracer
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Looking for something fun that you can play several times without getting bored.
Not interested in
1.Classics like Scrabble,Monopoly and Cluedo
2.Complicated games with instructions that are more like books.
3.Fantasy games with complicated fighting systems (ie roll six 6 to fight a dragon)
4.Complicated strategy games ie Risk
5.Games where you just roll a dice and move round the board.
6.Kids games ie Guess Who and Ghost Castle.
Just ordered "Journey through Europe" and "Stratego" (a childhood favourite)
anymore?
Not interested in
1.Classics like Scrabble,Monopoly and Cluedo
2.Complicated games with instructions that are more like books.
3.Fantasy games with complicated fighting systems (ie roll six 6 to fight a dragon)
4.Complicated strategy games ie Risk
5.Games where you just roll a dice and move round the board.
6.Kids games ie Guess Who and Ghost Castle.
Just ordered "Journey through Europe" and "Stratego" (a childhood favourite)
anymore?
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Smallworld is fantasy based, but it's a very simple set of rules with only a single die.
Gloom is a card game rather than a board game but is great fun for multiple plays.
The same goes for Family Business and Duck Hunt, two very similar card games where you try to kill off everyone else but in the first they are gangsters and in the second ducks.
Guillotine is another card game where you collect severed heads, quick to learn (about 4 very small pages of rules) but survives multiple plays.
Settlers of Catan and Carccassone are tile games but are revered around the world (well the board playing part of the world anyway) and no two games are ever alike (similar maybe, but not alike).
Dominion has also won loads of industry awards, it seems complicated to read but once you start playing it's very easy to pick up.
Oh and Fleeced staring Wallace and Gromit is great fun
For more "normal" fare, then The Logo Board Game passes the time, though not sure how much repeated play you'd get (it's a bit like Trivial Pursuit in that aspect in that eventually you're know all the answers).
PS - Risk complicated? :eek:
PPS - Where do you stand on the use of plastic figures?
Draughts
Kerplunk
http://www.cracked.com/video_18427_game-thrones-board-game.html
Ticket To Ride would be OK.
My personal favourite atm is Ninjato
Game of Life is a another fun Board game. Raising family you don't want and trying to abandon the kids as quick as possible.
I also used to own Key to the Kingdom. That was a brilliant game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz5Vsb_N8hA&feature=related
Game of Life (my personal favourite next to Monopoly)
Settlers of Catan (I haven't played it but only heard very positive things)
Pictionary (fun game for all)
Oh I played it as well. I was obsessed! I had the toys, cards and the video games. Clocked up over 200 hours on the Yellow version
Quoted for posterity.
Careers
Escape from Colditz
Dark Tower(my personal favourite)
Riotous Applause
Jungle Speed (more of a card game though)
Fibonacci
Cranium
Perplexcity
I remember Dungeonequest. That was a good game apart from the fighting parts.
Old one.
New one.
I love Risk...far better than Diplomacy...and my all-time favourite "wargame"-style board game was SPI's Fulda Gap World War Three-based game...but THE simplest and best "strategy" game I've ever come across, one that STILL amazes mates when they play it for the first time...is one played on a "board" no bigger than an A4 sheet of paper, and that once upon a time cost me a whopping £4...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogre_(game)
Ogre
Ogre is great - I have a copy in the loft. But Diplomacy is to Risk as Poker is to Snap. Far more skill needed