Anyone play board games anymore?

[mdr55]

With the advent of computers and home video gaming systems, are people still playing board games like they used to? When was the last time you played Monopoly, the Game of Life, Risk, Clue, Chutes and Ladders, Trivial Pursuit, etc.? Or what board games are you playing now and what was your favorite?



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This message was edited by mdr55 on 7-18-03 @ 1:32 AM

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No. Can't say I've played a board game since like 5-10 years ago. Trouble was a great one.

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[reeshy]

Stratego was another great game...it always led to great fistfights between my brother and I!!!!

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STRATEGO! INDEED!

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Hey Moe! What about our battles with the Dominos Pizza board game?

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[Death Metal Moe]

Nice! I fogot about that. Te game thatmakes you starvin as you play it.

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Strat-o-Matic baseball. Awesome game if you love the national pasttime.

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[cozmokramer]

Stratego was another great game...

wow I cant belive other people had that game too! I cant really remember the rules of it though.

I played Pictionary a couple of nights ago.

Also Risk, Monopoly, and Scategories!

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[Steels]

People do it all the time. Typically it's 4 friends, an 8-Ball & a cool apartment.

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[Aggie]

I really enjoy board games but I can almost never convince anyone to play with me. I had a group of friends in college who would. We would just hang out, cook, drink and play games. I'm down for Trivial Pursuit, Scattegories, Tribond etc, anytime!

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[StupidGirlllll]

Sorry,Checkers, Mouse Trapp, Clue, & a whole bunch otheres I play all the time,

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[A.J.]

I'm always up for Trivial Pursuit.

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[furie]

my friends and i play Axis & Allies every now and then

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[Jennitalia]

I love board games. I still like to play Candyland and Life. My proudest board game moment was a couple of months ago when i was playing scrabble. I was able to use up all of my letters on my first turn by spelling fellatio. i rock.

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[TheKnicks23]

I'm always up for a good game of Monopoly but it takes so damn long to play.



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[yarpwizard]

Let's not forget Scrabble. I have it on CD and play every now and then.

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Deluxe Scrabble
Travel Connect Four, Battleship, Checkers
Pictionary
Outburst
Life
Hello Kitty Uno
Scattergories (<--rocks)
Taboo
Othello
Monopoly (King of all games)
Jenga
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[Stalker Catty]

Define "board game". You've got your mass market Milton Bradley stuff like Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk, and Stratego. No one's been able to reinvent that wheel in quite some time.

...Unless you go to Germany, who they are so uptight that can only have fun competitively. Fortunately for the adventerous, it's led to some great games, like Settlers of Cattan, Puerto Rico and Carsacone. You'll have to go to dedicated hobby shop like the one I work at to find them.

Then there's your social games like Pictionary, Taboo, and Apples to Apples. They probably get more play than MB games nowadays.

I don't know where you put card games like Uno on that list. From there you can easily get into stuff that's not derived from Hoyle's, like Fluxx, Munchkin, Management Material, Lunch Money (for the excessive violent), and Guillotine.

On the outskirts of all this is Cheapass Games. CG looked at board games and made an observation: "These things are two fucking expensive." So they set about making board games as cheaply as possible, by printing single color boards and cards on regular card stock, and leaving out the dice, tokens, and pawns that you have from the dozen other games you have sitting in your closet. Up until last year, they wouldn't even spend money on a box, instead packing all their games in envelopes. For seven bucks, you can get an excellent board game from Cheapass, if you don't mind scrounging for parts.

Can you tell I sell this shit for living? :blush: And yes, I get alot of people looking for it. If you really want to go nuts, try http://www.boardgamegeek.com/.

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[ChickenHawk]

Videogames KILLED board games.

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Videogames KILLED board games.



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[SatCam]

Stratego was another great game...

I always cheated in those games, thank ya very much!

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[ToddEVF]

i play board games, however they are never as much fun as blowing up someone in a video game.

truely vidogames killed the board game

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[nickeye]

There's one called Imaginiff that's great for groups. It won the Mensa $elect prize a couple of years ago.

Basically, you pick a person in the group to be the <i>object</i> of the "Imagine If..." card you read. So the question would be like: "Imagine if Nick were a superhero. Which one would he be?"

Everybody secretly picks one of six choices. You try to pick the most popular answer. Great game, but you really need to know the people with whom you're playing.

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[JerryTaker]

wow, Stalker Catty beat me to Settlers of Cattan....

I love that game, I think I've played it 50 times and actually won once, but still an awesome game. I Must have "longest road"

I don't think Apples to Apples and Uno count as board games, more like card games... and Munchkin is closer to Magic: The Gathering than it is Uno, except without all that "collecting" stuff

I absolutely love the Lord of the Rings board game... though I have yet to be in a group that can beat Sauron

but I enjoy Monopoly, Stratego, Trivial Pursuit, Risk and Scrabble... and I LOVE Clue, but nobody in my circles seems to own a copy. I may go out and get the Simpsons one.

I also want to try those new stratego games I've been seing in the past few years, with the high fantasy stuff.



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[keithy_19]

RISK...I love staying up late with some of my buddies eating, drinking(soda of course), and playing risk. The more people the better.

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[Stalker Catty]

Munchkin is closer to Magic: The Gathering than it is Uno, except without all that "collecting" stuff
Yeah, but I don't know anyone that takes Munchkin seriously enought to try to make a living at it. As for it's nature... well, yeah, that's what a Munchkin is.

I LOVE Clue, but nobody in my circles seems to own a copy. I may go out and get the Simpsons one.
I agree with you on Clue. It's actually one of the easier to acquire MB games out there, with the licenced versions and all (Dungeons & Dragons Clue? :quest: ) I also get a kick out of Cheapass' Kill Doctor Lucky, which is a sort of prequel to Clue. Instead of trying to deduce the killer, your actually all running around trying to kill the victim, Dr. Lucky. At tonight's game, he sure lived up to that name.

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[kc7586]

i thought you were talking about board games as in the ones here, because barely anyone plays them now too......

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[LordJezo]

<p>I am not talking about Monopoly or Sorry or cheesy &quot;adult&quot; games. I mean things like Carcassone, Settlers of Catan, Axis and Allies, Risk, etc..</p><p>I have a small group of people who play and I want to see who else is into it all, perhaps get more groups going.</p><p><img border="0" src="http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/836/games1wk.jpg" /><br /> </p><p>That's my current small collection, I'll be picking up a few more games in the next couple of weeks.</p><p> </p><p>What's everyone else play, if anything? </p>

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[walking joint]

can't say i play them, but if anyone had the game and wanted to play Risk i'd play.&nbsp;

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[ShelleBink]

<p>probably my favorite board game right now is Apples to Apples... its relatively simple.&nbsp; Players are dealt red cards that include people, objects, locations and must match the best possible phrase with the green cards ((hehe)) which are descriptive words.</p><p>And if you play the game with sick fucks like my friends or family you have combinations like:</p><p>Hysterical - AIDS ((my brother won that hand))<br />Boring - Schindler's List</p><p>and so on.&nbsp; As Amy, she liked the game.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong><font color="#000099">GO is a pretty elegant strategy game! It's very austere in appearance but can get pretty intense.</font></strong></p><p><img height="323" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006HCWM6.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="500" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">I like playing Chess...</font></strong></p><p><img height="292" src="http://www.chessmate.com/images/duchamp.jpg" width="232" border="0" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000099">espesh w/ Marcel Duchamp!!!</font></strong></p>

[SatCam]

Anyone into board games?

The Person Above You Game is pretty fun...

[JerryTaker]

I Loooooove Settlers of Catan, Especially with the Cities and Knights Expansion, if you have half a night to kill.&nbsp; And I used to have HeroQuest, but I graduated to Warhammer.<br />

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played ALL of these games. i love settlers of Catan!!&nbsp; another
great game was Aquire.&nbsp; i played Warhammer for a while also, but
only the original, not the 40k.&nbsp;&nbsp; i really wish there was a
way to play these games online.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />
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[TheRealEddie]

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[Patches]

I love Axis and Allies, and recently have been playing Puerto Rico. I haven't played it yet, but I hear Diplomacy is pretty cool.

[PapaBear]

I'm trying to remember a board game from my childhood. I'm guessing it had something to do with elections, because the board was a map of the USA. All the states had their number of delegates printed on them. That's the only thing that I can remember about it. I just got to thinking about it, because it obviously had a good effect. I can still remember (for the most part) what states have the most delegates because of that game. Anyone else remember this game?

[WampusCrandle]

i liked stratego, risk - honestly, i like to play any board games.

[led37zep]

I loved board games growing up, then those board games turned into drinking games (which I also loved), then I never played board games again.

My chick and I were thinking about picking one up soon. Might be kinda fun to get into again.

[ToddEVF]

i've played risk, its fun until I have to conquer france. . . they always just throw in the towel

[sailor]

dipomacy is my all-time favorite (one great aspect is you can play by email). i also enjoy axis, advanced civ, shogun (later rechristened samurai swords), chess and others.

[PapaBear]

Damn. I was hoping someone would remember the game I talked about. It's been driving me nuts!

[Marc with a c]

dipomacy is my all-time favorite (one great aspect is you can play by email). i also enjoy axis, advanced civ, shogun (later rechristened samurai swords), chess and others.

shocking

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i like guess who

[sailor]

I'm trying to remember a board game from my childhood. I'm guessing it had something to do with elections, because the board was a map of the USA. All the states had their number of delegates printed on them. That's the only thing that I can remember about it. I just got to thinking about it, because it obviously had a good effect. I can still remember (for the most part) what states have the most delegates because of that game. Anyone else remember this game?

don't recall it, but if there's a compleat strategist (http://www.thecompleatstrategist.com/index.asp?PAGEACTION=CONTACTUS) near you they'd probably know.

[MadMatt]

Damn. I was hoping someone would remember the game I talked about. It's been driving me nuts!

This isn't it, but it's a cool game. [Is there any chance it was "1960: The Making of the President" that you were talking about? It might be too new, but it is really similar to what you were talking about. Linky Linkerton (http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/1960.htm).]

This is it:

EDIT: I looked a little further and came up with LANDSLIDE (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/865), which I am almost sure is the game you are talking about. I even remember playing it.

Parker Brothers released it in 1971, but I think there was an updated version released in the late 1990's or 2000's.

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[PapaBear]

EDIT: I looked a little further and came up with LANDSLIDE (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/865), which I am almost sure is the game you are talking about. I even remember playing it.

Parker Brothers released it in 1971, but I think there was an updated version released in the late 1990's or 2000's.
That's it!!! I totally remember the box cover! :clap:

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i tried to play Axis & Allies once with some friends who were into it. a half hour went by and i still hadn't had a turn yet. i left and found a stickball game in the schoolyard. much more satisfying.

Risk is cool (capturing australia is the key to world domination, btw).

[TeeBone]

Bored games?

[nate1000]

Risk is cool (capturing australia is the key to world domination, btw).


QFT- those Aussies don't F around.

[undressa]

love scatagories

[drusilla]

i used to play risk a lot, but now it's mostly late night get-togethers at my house for taboo, & cranium brand games. you know, those lame "adult" games.

[grlNIN]

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[Section 8]

I used to play Kingmaker, Chess, Stratego, and your usual Parker Brothers crap.

Now I'm more into Settlers of Catan, Diplomacy, Risk (Godstorm and 2120AD are good variations), Drunken Jenga, Drunken Pictionary, and Drunken Taboo

[Crispy123]

one of my all time favorites in the "yard".
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[sailor]

no, I'm not a dork.

words hurt.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

the only games I play now are Trivia Pursuit , Monopoly (only drunk) and Scategories

[eeroomnhoj]

Slightly off topic. My daughters are now old enough to play games like checkers, monopoly and chess. The first time they played chess it ended with someone crying (we have to work on sportsmanship). We also started playing chinese checkers.

[mdr55]

the only games I play now are Trivia Pursuit , Monopoly (only drunk) and Scategories

I remember one of the questions in Trivial Pursuit was if you called this number what was the location of that phone number. The answer was the White House.

I called that number backed in the day to see if it was true and it was the White House! I hung up the phone real quick, hoping they wouldn't be able to track my number. I was pretty young back then and all I thought about was that the FBI, Secret Service would come knocking on my door or something.

Now that I think about it now, it was probably the public phone number to the White House that's listed in the phone book.

[lleeder]

i like guess who

Is it a boy or girl?

Do they have a beard?

[sailor]

Is it a boy or girl?

Do they have a beard?

are they black?

[Justice4all]

the only games I play now are Trivia Pursuit , Monopoly (only drunk) and Scategories

They finally found a way to bring Trivial Pursuit to the television as a game show. I can't wait to see what they do.

I might try to sign up to be on the show.



Snoogans might want to try that too...never met a man with more knowledge of alot of crap!

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