Best Board Game

[Mr Brightside]

What's the best board game? Draughts? Monopoly? Here's your chance to have your say.

[Obel]

Cosmic Encounter.

[Butchers Blind]

[ASFTSN]

Out of stuff I've played in the last couple of years, Pax Romana or Combat Commander.

[Norton Canes]

What's the best board game? Draughts? Monopoly?

So close to a negging.

[pancreas]

GOOD THREAD.

Puerto Rico. Although if anyone wants a game of Dominion online, you need only say the word.

I also like: Splendour, Carcassonne, Pandemic (still have yet to try Legacy), Settlers is okay (but I only have the base game).

[Mr Brightside]

Any fans of Nine Men's Morris?

[Norton Canes]

if anyone wants a game of Dominion online, you need only say the word

Yes

Not today, too busy. But soon. AWAIT THE WORD

[Kane Jones]

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She doesn't look that sorry to me. Looks more like she's gloating.

[Eight Taiwanese Teenagers]

My current favourites are Isle of Skye and Codenames.

For online play my favourite is Carcassonne.

Hoping never to play Monopoly again in my life.

[Glebe]

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Oh yes. Volcano erupts!

[Norton Canes]

If we're talking retro games, then ESCAPE from ATLANTIS is great:

[Robot DeNiro]

You can't go wrong with Carcassonne.  Unless you add too many expansions.  Recently I've also been enjoying Bruges and Oh My Goods.  For short, two player only games, Lost Cities and Patchwork are hard to beat.

Here's our previous Board Games thread, although there's no harm in starting a new one - http://www.cookdandbombd.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,38418.0.html

[Norton Canes]

Oh good, I can copy n' paste my 'best game' posts from there.

I still haven't managed to get a copy of Kolejka.

[pancreas]

I still haven't managed to get a copy of Kolejka.

Jesus, that sounds as bleak as Papers Please.

[Jerzy Bondov]

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I've got this. I had it when I was young but it was from a boot sale and the pterodactyl was missing. There's an old home video of me talking about it in my posh little 8 year old voice which became a running joke in our family. 'It's got a piece missing,' I repine. A few years ago my sister bought me the complete game for my birthday, but she took out the pterodactyl for a hilarious prank. Very funny but I've had the last laugh because it's one of the greatest board games ever created[nb]it's not[/nb]

[Obel]

Oh also Sons of Anarchy is a brilliant boardgame. And dirt cheap at £18, if you already have a board gaming group and you like negotiationy, back stabby games then it's an absolute must buy.

[Norton Canes]

Oh also Sons of Anarchy is a brilliant boardgame. And dirt cheap at £18, if you already have a board gaming group and you like negotiationy, back stabby games then it's an absolute must buy

Agreed.

GF9's adaptation of TV series Spartacus is fantastically back-stabby too. And they've completed a Doctor Who game, Time of the Daleks, too - though when it's actually going to be released is anyone's guess.

[Ignatius_S]

...And they've completed a Doctor Who game, Time of the Daleks, too - though when it's actually going to be released is anyone's guess.

End of June most likely.

[Attila]

Mr Attila has a Clangers version of snakes and ladders.

He got it out when he couldn't think of anything to do on our first date after he got me back to the house.[nb]

Spoiler alert

sod it, the bloody thing's stuck again

[close]

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[Beach]

[Mr Brightside]

Would you say the old school paper-and-pencil version of Battleship classes as a board game? That's actually my preferred way to play it. The guy in the electronic one sounds like a right cunt.

[Utter Shit]

When I was a kid I used to absolutely love Monopoly, but in retrospect it's absolute horse dung. Aside from any modern moral issues about winning a game by forcing everyone else into destitution, it doesn't really work as a game - the first half an hour or so is decent fun, but you quickly get to a point where only one person has any real chance of winning, but the game won't actually end for another three hours until everyone else has taken their turn at landing on enough of hotels to bankrupt themselves.

I always loved Yahtzee. A great combination of luck and tactics, with about 90% of it tactics.

Incidentally, how did noughts and crosses ever take off? Unless one of you is suffering from early-onset dementia, no game between two people above the age of about four should end in anything other than a draw.

[Mr Brightside]

Incidentally, how did noughts and crosses ever take off? Unless one of you is suffering from early-onset dementia, no game between two people above the age of about four should end in anything other than a draw.

That's why I only ever play with people with early-onset dementia. I still fucking lose, though.

[armful]

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She doesn't look that sorry to me. Looks more like she's gloating.

One Christmas my uncle asked my siblings and i to tell him one thing we wanted for Christmas and  he would get it. I asked for a computer game. The twat actually got us the Board game Sorry . Not one each , one board game to share. At the time I thought Bastard. I know admire this cruel prank.

[Utter Shit]

That's why I only ever play with people with early-onset dementia. I still fucking lose, though.

I once lost a game of rock, paper, scissors to a man with no fingers.

[pancreas]

I once lost a game of rock, paper, scissors to a man with no fingers.

Luxury. I once lost a game of archery to a blind man with no arms.

[MojoJojo]

Incidentally, how did noughts and crosses ever take off? Unless one of you is suffering from early-onset dementia, no game between two people above the age of about four should end in anything other than a draw.

Boring answer: it's  simplified/kiddified version of Three Men's Morris, which is itself a simplification of Nine Men's Morris mentioned by Mr brightside up thread.

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Luxury. I once lost a game of archery to a blind man with no arms.

Well I once lost a regional shit-off to a man with no anus.

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Boring answer: it's  simplified/kiddified version of Three Men's Morris, which is itself a simplification of Nine Men's Morris mentioned by Mr brightside up thread.

I wish somebody would release a simplified version of Bald Man's 'Arris.  I find it far too tricky.