Favorite Board Games: Let's Get Nerdy

[PedroSteckecilo]

Bang!, Zombies, Settlers of Catan and Arkham Horror are all possum sauce.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

If Board Games includes tabletop, D&D for sure, closely followed by Warhammer 40K.

If not, then a nice game of chess will do.

 

[Extravaganza]

Risk. All types i find fun.

I started a risk club with some friends at my HS.

Its pretty badass

 

[dekkarax]

Risk, Zombies!!!, Axis & Allies, Space Hulk (and to a lesser extent, Space Crusade), and good ol' 40k.
Hell, Risk is one of the few things I'd like to do if they ever got a dice system in the Forum games section.

 

[c0rtha]

monopoly ftw

 

[PurpleRain]

I see what you did there.
Also, to everyone else I don't suck that much at chess, honest! Only sometimes. My favourite board game has got to be Pictionary. I love that game! I'm pretty darn good at it, and I like how high energy and team-based it is. After that, Cranium is pretty fun (get to hum stuff and do charades as well as showing off my trivia skills, so that's cool), Catan is good times (always go for the grain!), and Scrabble is a classic. I don't really like Monopoly, and I uh, sort of cheat at Clue... Which reminds me that it seems like everyone inevitably changes the rules at the end of a game of Trivial Pursuit.

Changing the rules is a form of cheating but with less guilt. But I like Trivial Pursuit just so I can give a stern but horribly wrong answer, until I actually get something I might know. Also, what was that game where we had to write down the words and guess each others? Not really a board game as such, but it was fun.

 

[brtshstel]

I have always loved a good game of RISK. I'm not very good at it, but I really enjoy its compexity. I hate what they've done with the current releases. No, unless it's cannons, mounted calvary, and infantry (not stupid building pieces) then it's not RISK. Same goes for the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings versions. They are not real RISK, just licensed knockoffs to cash in on popular culture.

 

[Vorpals]

Monopoly
Carcassonne
Risk
D&D
Apples to Apples
Chess

 

[LewsTherin]

Settlers of Catan: 40 minute game my ass! NEVER play to 13.

Also: Munchkin (with as many expansions as you can get your hands on)and Memoir '44.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Ricochet Robots is a good one.
Catan is alright, but I think the card game does it better, same with San Juan (card game of Puerto Rico.

Phoenix is a nice little abstract.

Struggle for Empire is another nice one, plenty of different strategies on offer there.

Monopoly is, let's face it, shit though. It's overlong, has no comeback or catchup mechanism, is elimination based (very bad in such a long game), and very strategically limited.

Risk has most of the same problems. There are far better board based wargames out there (Struggle, as mentioned).

 

[chuckman1]

Monopoly.
I don't really play many board games.

 

[kawligia]

Munchkin

ZOMG <3 Munchkin! Except for the last expansion with the dungeon cards. Those suck.

Illuminati is also great. Oh and Risk too.

Monopoly FTL. The first half of the game is random. The second half of the game involves one person slowly screwing everyone else. That game is responsible for more relationship trouble than any other game ever.

 

[the monopoly guy]

Connect Four, because it was the only game that I truly and completly kicked ass at. All the time. I was like a freaking diagonal ninja.

 

[Aschenkatza]

LIFE
Always cool to be a Lesbian Mother with 3 male kids.

 

[Frizzle]

I'm going to go with Apples to Apples. While drinking. People get their weird sides out when you do that!
Risk is awesome.

Anyone ever play that "save the whales" game from the late 80's early 90's?

 

[Larenxis]

Changing the rules is a form of cheating but with less guilt. But I like Trivial Pursuit just so I can give a stern but horribly wrong answer, until I actually get something I might know. Also, what was that game where we had to write down the words and guess each others? Not really a board game as such, but it was fun.

That was Jotto. A classic really. Ooh, we could still play that online through msn or whatnot!

 

[Raven's Nest]

Mousetrap for the win.

Nothing was more satisfying than setting that baby in motion!

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

Monopoly and Chess would be my favorites