What's you favourite board game and why? Nostalgia, Kids like it, challenging or just plain fun?
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I love Clue – I can kick anyone’s ass in that game.
I love Boggle, but have now gotten hooked on the online version: Bookworm.
My favorite board game right now is Cranium, because I love to play it with my teenage nephews.
Candyland, the game that tastes good too!
When I was in my 20s, I loved Risk – fun to be ruthless and conquer the world without shedding real blood.
The last few years, Apples to Apples. Not a board game, strictly speaking, but smart and fun and good for all ages.
Scrabble!
Because I like words.
Monopoly. I own. …Get it? Get it?
I was always a big fan of Clue and Risk, but I’d have to say Dungeon was my favorite, you could modify the rules so easily and incorporate new things of your own design even from one game to the next. We used to have two of them and “double up” the board with all sorts of custom characters, treasure, and beasties. Loads of good times with that game ^.^
Risk.
Brings friends together, and they never leave. :-)
The game of Things.
It’s a good laugh and it’s just fun!
+2: Parcheesi, it’s a lot of fun, and involves strategy as well as luck. Lots of nostalgia!
2: checkers or Othello, because you can either play a chill game or be all cut throat!
I love that game articulate. My friends and family and I had great fun playing that at Christmas.
I rather enjoy playing monopoly. Only against computers though. Not sure why.
Toss chess in there, as well.
Hey, aprilsimnel – I love Scrabble, too, and for the same reason. Used to be pretty good at it, but I’ve lost the touch.
Oh man, I don’t know. Hard to pick one.
I love Scrabble. Words are kinda my thing. I love playing it with my family. My mom usually wins (she pretty much has the whole scrabble dictionary memorized, so it’s almost impossible to beat her), but I’m never far behind… :P One time I played a game of scrabble with a girl in Las Vegas while I was here in San Francisco. We used a webcam. It was awesome.
Then there’s Clue. If there’s one game I truly own at, it’s this. I win every single time I play, it doesn’t matter with whom. Now the problem is, it’s been too long since I’ve played that I fear I’ve lost my ability… :(
Cranium is also a lot of fun. It’s a good game to play with a big group. I just played it over the winter break.
And who could forget Apologopoly? It’s a made-up game that my brother Justin and I created. It uses the Sorry board and the pawns and the goal is the same as Sorry, but we use a deck of playing cards and a bunch of brightly-colored plastic pieces. It’s pretty complicated, but it’s so much fun. We even made our own logo for it and always place it over the “Sorry” logo on the board when we play it. :P
Scrabble. It’s all about how you use the board and 2 letter words.
Rummikub is ok also.
I like a lot of card games also, not sure if we are counting those. Canasta, 500 rummy, and euchre (I have not played euchre in forever, but used to love it, it’s only really played in a few parts of the country so it is difficult to find other people who play).
Riskopoly
It’s a mixture of monopoly and risk
Disney Trivia Persuit I love normal trivia persuit too as, although I don’t get many questiosn right, I always learn something new by the end of the game and I store it with every other bit of useless information I have rattling around in my head!.
I also agree with @ChazMaz, Risk is great. although my dad usually ends up taking over every continent!
But does he start land wars in Asia?
@aprilsimnel My dad? Put it this way, judging by how he gets when playing Risk, I am glad he doesn’t run any real countries! Scary stuff!!!
@jmah excellent, you come over. bring your partner. I promise I will behave.
Risk, The Settlers of Catan, and as of late, Monopoly.
Anyone who likes Risk should check out Catan, I now like Catan better than Risk. The expansions add exponentially to how many times you can play it before it gets old.
Technically, both Classic BattleTech and Car Wars are considered “board games”, and I’ve been into both of them for almost 20 years. It’s a little tricky since CW was out-of-print for a long time and the last real edition has been OOP for even longer, so that menas that my CW books/maps are old enough to vote.
My favorite right now is Cranium because of it’s varied game play and that it can be fun for everyone. For years though it was Scrabble, and it’s definitely my all-time fave.
As a kid, I loved Trivial Pursuit. I remember a new edition of the game was coming out, and I really wanted it. My parents helped me put it on lay-away and I gradually paid it off with my allowance. Most likely I loved the game because when I played my family and friends I always won. There are benefits to being a bookworm!
I also have fond memories of playing Monopoly with my younger brother and cheating so badly the entire time. I stopped playing with him when he was able to read and count well enough to realize what a dirty player I was. I thought I was good at Monopoly until I met my husband, who doesn’t view it as a game so much as an opportunity to ruthlessly destroy other people. We play with the kids, and the biggest rule is “Don’t make deals with Daddy, no matter how good they seem! It will backfire!” Now I can sometimes beat him, but usually he wins. We have regular Monopoly, Star Wars Monopoly, and Monopoly Here and Now. Star Wars is everyone’s favorite!
Monopoly. I beat the Wisconsin State Champion.
also, Trivial Pursuit, boggle, pictionary.
Gotta go with Scrabble on this one.
@ShiningToast if you like Catan, you might also like Carcassone – it’s deceptively simple, also has many expansion options.
And Scrabble fans in our family also like Quiddler – you play with cards instead of tiles, play 8 rounds Play feels quicker, because everyone is strategizing at once
You know, I was thinking… there are so many good board games, but whatever happened to the imaginary games we used to play as children? You know, the games in the car, slugbug, iSpy, etc.?
@Marina Bookwarom be good. Also wordtwist and word something and word that and I forget their names – the ones on facebook – loved them to bits – then left them.
I like Yahtzee, because I can play it solitare or with a group.
Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. Monopoly because I’m a numbers/money guy (I should have known I’d grow up to be an Accountant, I was ALWAYS the banker). Trivial Pursuit because my mind seems to be a trap for useless information. I guess what it boils down to is they are two games I had a good chance of winning.
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