Post your Favorite board game and why

DonkeyKongSr · #1 07-19-2007, 06:04 PM

Trivial Pursuit
Pictionary
Scene It

Risk is pretty good too. We actually started an office game here that should take about a month to finish. Should be fun.

CarpeDiem · #2 07-19-2007, 06:09 PM

Chess. Endlessly fascinating.

Settlers of Catan is interesting too.

Klompy · #3 07-19-2007, 06:16 PM

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Settlers of Catan is interesting too.

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Played this once, didn't get it and didn't have a good time.

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also my favorite, although I've always use it as a euphemism for choking the chicken.

tuq · #4 07-19-2007, 06:25 PM

Oh if we're going with simple very well-known board games then I choose Stratego. I was really, really good at that game for some reason, had like a .900 winning percentage growing up.

Grasshopp3r · #5 07-19-2007, 06:26 PM

My background is in gaming, so I have played all of those and more. As far as a favorite, I would have to say Advanced Civilization, because the trading aspect is really interesting. Unfortunately, it is hard to play for the same reason. I like the 18xx train games, too.

private joker · #6 07-19-2007, 06:29 PM

Connect 4.

I totally own at it (Evan has won prop bets on me), it's simple, and it's one of the pure 100% strategy games. I hate luck games because dice and cards and wheels always screw me over.

I also really like Mastermind and Pente for similar reasons.

CaptUnlucky · #7 07-19-2007, 06:35 PM

I like Cranium cause it can be fun with a bunch of teams.

Uglyowl · #8 07-19-2007, 06:48 PM

Used to be Statis Pro baseball for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statis_Pro_Baseball

tuq · #9 07-19-2007, 06:11 PM

From my experience, Risk is like a really sucktastic version of Axis & Allies, but whatever I don't play either of them anymore.

Growing up I was a huge fan of games made by Games Workshop out of England. Their more famous titles were the Warhammer series and Judge Dredd, but I preferred their offbeat titles, the best known of which were Talisman and Blood Bowl. But they also had a bunch of obscure titles that were as fun as anything I'd ever played, and would still play today without hesitation if they weren't buried in storage somewhere.

traz · #10 07-19-2007, 06:13 PM

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