What are your favourite Board Games?

dinglefoot

I like Tension, it's usually a good laugh and good for all ages

Timpu

Ticket to Ride and the variations

Carcasonne with its expansion kits (we ended up taking a holiday within driving distance of the city)

UKTigerlily

I would like to know of some good ones that can be played by a family of four. Kids are aged 10 & 6 years x

nuttywoman

Tri-Ominoes
We love it

When_the_going_gets_tough

scrabble trivial pursuit and for me chinese checkers - noone else likes it though!

barbiedoll

I absolutely loathe board games, I get tired of waiting for my turn and the thought of a 2 hour+ session of Monopoly just chills me to the bone!

We do love Pictionary though, especially if you can [STRIKE]steal some from work[/STRIKE] buy some large (A3) sheets of paper. None of us are particularly artistic so most of the drawings are absolutely hilariously bad, which is much more fun!

We do like playing "Guess Who" with our granddaughter, although now she's almost 7, she knows when we're cheating. She thought my DH was so clever because he always beat her, she didn't realise that my son was standing behind her, telling my DH who to pick! :rotfl:

LannieDuck

barbiedoll wrote: »

I absolutely loathe board games, I get tired of waiting for my turn and the thought of a 2 hour+ session of Monopoly just chills me to the bone!

If you get the chance, give some of the newer games a try. Co-op games like Pandemic are far less boring because you're invested in everyone else's turns. And something like Space Alert doesn't really have turns at all - you all go at once!

JasX

LannieDuck wrote: »

If you get the chance, give some of the newer games a try. Co-op games like Pandemic are far less boring because you're invested in everyone else's turns. And something like Space Alert doesn't really have turns at all - you all go at once!

yes, more recent 'modern' boardgames have a lot of design effort put into

-minimising downtime between turns
-not having 'player elimination' where someone has to sit out / gets knocked out before the end
-having catchup mechanisms so you don't get one player running away with the game from the first couple of turns on luck alone

(ie pretty much every area monopoly and other older/tedious games fall down on)

DUTR

No one has mentioned chess? It has certainly stood the test of time.

picklekin

LannieDuck wrote: »

lol, we have enough trouble playing Space Alert with 4 adults. We've hardly got past the training missions!

... it might just be that we suck :rotfl:

Great game tho I didn't suggest it above cos it used to be quite hard to get hold of. Maybe that's changed...

PS Co-op games ftw!

We often lose, but I just love watching them play out (we use the app on our TV, I adore the little noises it makes as you move).. When you realise you were in the wrong segment and have spent 3 turns looking out the window!!

Pandemic has been mentioned and that game is brutal, but great. We won the last game, and were feeling all smug when we looked at the draw deck and realised there was only 1 turn left between us death!!

Some new boardgames are just brilliant, and nothing like the old ones at all. We also love, Dead of Winter, Descent (co-op but one of you is evil), Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Arkham Horror, Elder Sign.. I could go on I think many of these are to complex (esp Arkham Horror) for an 11 year old, but lots they would easily pick up, and kick Monopoly's !!!!.