Poll: Does anyone here enjoy board games? What are some good ones?

[the_green_dragon]

Hey there fellow escapists. I was just looking through my board game collection and thinking that I really wanted to play them more.

I then wondered how popular board gaming actually is?

I've got a few good ones like Lord of the Rings Risk, Munchkin, Scrabble, a D&D starter pack (I really wish I knew more people to play that with) Pirates (it's a CCG and u build little ships) I dabbled in a little bit of Magic the Gathering and I have a small small Warhammer 40K army.

What are some other good ones people here can recommend?

I also added a poll for fun. I tried to put a number of different answers on there since someone always wants to choose the random options.

 

[Metal Brother]

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

Classic board game - Loads of fun, lots of strategy, doesn't take too long to play.

 

[Cazza]

I do enjoy board games. Though no one else does that I know. So I haven't played one in a long time. One of the best board games I have ever played is Atmosfear. I also like chess, scrabble, monopoly, Squatter (like monopoly but with sheep stations), cluedo etc.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

I'm not a big fan of board games, even though I've been to several board game conventions. It was fun, but I don't play it that often normally.

 

[Wadders]

Monopoly is King.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I would play a lot of board games in uni, we have played risk and monopoly, but it is usually things like phase ten (with playing cards) or uno or something.

 

[Raikov]

I can strongly recommend Arkham Horror to those that want a co-op challenge. And it gets really hard with some of the expansions =P

 

[fenrizz]

Monopoly, Risk, Axis & Allies, Magic The Gathering, World of Darkness.

The list goes on.

But yeah, I love boardgames.

 

[Retal19]

I used to enjoy Monopoly, Scrabble and Articulate. Monopoly got monotonous after a while, Articulate would begin to get confusing, but Scrabble just kept, bloody, going. It becomes a frigging Battleground with dictionaries flying everywhere and arguments over what words are real and what words are just made up on the spot. But that's probably what makes it fun.

 

[drbarno]

Cluedo FTW! also yugioh.

 

[Regiment]

Anything by Steve Jackson games is absolute gold. It's becoming a thing for me to get a new one at each PAX East. I'd recommend Frag and Revolution! pretty strongly.

 

[Jatyu]

Dominion, it's like magic deckbuilding, the game.

 

[katsabas]

Try to find a thing called Blokus. You have this board out of squares which you have to fill with tetris-like blocks, one connected with the other only through their edges. Crazy fun and chaotic when 4way.

UNO. Plain, simple, fast, unpredictable.

D&D minis, 3.5 edition. Epics, Pit Fiends, Tordek The Dwarf Champion, Vlaakith and Colossal Red Dragons. Awesome.

Othello. Like chess. Only not chess.

Risk. Never played it but I hear it is awesome.

Scrabble. The old faithful.

 

[Athol]

Risk. Never played it but I hear it is awesome.

It is indeed.

 

[Foxblade618]

CATAN!!!!!!! and the venerable RISK

 

[Foxblade618]

also, there is a fun little game that is probably impossible to find, but it's called Incan Gold, but worth checking out if you can.

 

[Dango]

Risk. I prefer a good game of risk over any video games, and my friends and I still occasionally gather to play a couple games.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Down in Flames is a pretty fun card based board game.

http://www.battlefront.com/products/dif/

Settlers of Catan is an all time favorite as well.

http://www.catan.com/

And my favorite, Table Top Aces, apparently isn't on the internet. It consist of 8 or more players recreating a WWII air battle. My last game was the USSR (Us) versus the nazis. 6 players vs. 4 (Offset by the German planes COMPLETELY outclassing our YAKs). Soviets won, and I was declared MVP.

Hilariously enough, I shot down the least amount of German planes. However, I dragged a ME 262 around the board for over 30 turns in a Yak-9, leaving the rest of my team to just swarm the Germans. I also got points for ditching my aircraft 12 times, more then anyone else, and my pilot never died, despite hitting the trees and getting heavily injured 7 times.

Good game.

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game. It's the favorite game in my group of boardgame playing friends.

For those of you that haven't seen the series, it is about survival and deceit. The goal is to work together to survive but half the players are traitors who sabotage from within the group and they are selected randomly. The only one who knows if you are a traitor or not, is you. Not even your team mates know what you are.

It gets really interesting because half the game is about the rules and the board, the other half is all about player interaction, manipulation, trust and mistrust. You need a good pokerface to play on the traitor team. It gets really tense when you know that someone is working against you but you don't know who to blame and putting the wrong person in jail will only cripple your team.

A friend of mine had extreme feelings of anxiety when trying to decide if I was the traitor or if the third player was the one. And then he felt really guilty after sending the other guy to jail, when I was the traitor and had been lying all along. A boardgame that can bring forth feelings like this is rare and I say that Battlestar Galactica is simply AWESOME.

EDIT: It's playable with 3-6 players but I recommend at least 4. A game with 5 or 6 players is a lot more fun since then you have more traitor players and it's alot harder to deduce which ones are the traitors.