What's your favourite board game or card game? [Last Night On Earth review included]

Shin Granzon

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Favorite board game would be Clue, I have classic Clue, Harry Potter edition, and 24 edition of the game. I still can't believe the sheer number of variants of Clue, and well Monopoly vaiants of course. had a Star Wars Monopoly growing up. Card game? Magic the Gathering if we're talking TCGs, and traditional would be Uno. Playing Uno goes back to when I would play Crazy Eights with a deck of regular cards.
 

Cerrida

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Board game: Monopoly or any of the LEGO games

Card: Magic the Gathering or Ninja Burger.
 

Javarock

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Card: MTG

Board: Risk

I like them both equally, but risk takes a long time but tons of fun.
 

viperthejedi

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Shin Granzon said:
Favorite board game would be Clue, I have classic Clue, Harry Potter edition, and 24 edition of the game. I still can't believe the sheer number of variants of Clue, and well Monopoly vaiants of course. had a Star Wars Monopoly growing up. Card game? Magic the Gathering if we're talking TCGs, and traditional would be Uno. Playing Uno goes back to when I would play Crazy Eights with a deck of regular cards.
We call it Cluedo here but I haven't seen different versions of it. Just the original. I'll have to do some internet searching for it because I love that game also. 24 Cluedo sounds interesting.

EDIT: Actually I tell a lie. I have played a Simpsons version before.
 

ms_sunlight

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Scrabble. It's a classic. Literacy, numeracy, tactics, luck and skill come together in the perfect storm of board gaming. Plus, it's fun making rude words.
 

DetectiveSparky

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Dominion is alright, but I preferred Resident Evil to it, same principle but you defeat zombies in a "Mansion Deck" that and I'm a fan of Resident Evil.

Last Night on Earth is awesome, I always get a kick out of the horrible pictures on all the cards.

If you want a lot of replayability an you have 4 to 6 people (I know it says 3-6 but it's more fun with a minimum of 4). Try out Betrayal at House on the Hill. It's played in 2 phases, the first phase is the exploration phase and you try to map out the mansion, at any point the game will shift into the second phase whether you like it or not. A player in the group is designated by somewhat random chance (dependent on what is found and where) as the "traitor" it the group and the traitor both have different objectives and you only know your own win condition. The group must work together in order to defeat the traitor. There's about 50+ different scenarios, and I've played about 5 different times and haven't had the same scenario twice yet. It plays differently each time.

If you want a game that has a fair amount of replayability but more competition, then try out Carcasonne. You compete to get the most points by the time the tiles run out. You try to finish cities, roads and try to get farms in order to gain the most points.

If you want a more cooperative game, then Pandemic is a lot of fun. Warning, your chances of winning, are extremely low. Our group has about a 95% failure rate, with the expansion it makes it easier to win but we have lost a lot still. You have a role and work together against a viral outbreak
 

papakapp

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I play Risk with Family, and I used to play Settlers online a LOT. I would say my game of choice these days is Ingenious.

I would say it's easier to learn than Settlers or Risk, but the strategy goes deeper imho.
 

MetallicaRulez0

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I have very boring taste when it comes to board games. My favorites are Risk, Monopoly, and Yahtzee... the classics.

For card games, you can't go wrong with Magic: The Gathering. It's extremely expensive if you want to be competitive, but it is oh so much fun. There's also Magic Online now, which I hear is a bit cheaper, plus let's you play a lot more often.
 

gradiusman

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Arkham Horror is fun to play the first couple of times. However it is quite expensive if you want to get any of the expansions. My friends and I have found it a little boring after playing it about 10 times, a few of those games were 5-8 hours long.

Our new favorite is Tales of the Arabian Nights, if you can find a copy. It is quite fun and we think it has greater replay value than Arkham. I highly recommend this one especially if you like story driven games.

Fury of Dracula is also quite fun and enjoyable.

I don't have any advice on card games, since I haven't really played any for a while and that was MTG.
 

smearyllama

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Catan, hoversmuckers.
Probably why I like Spice and Wolf so much...

Magic for cards, though. I run a golem/splicer deck, and it's awesome, except that I can never pull any splicers from the boosters I buy.
 

Seishisha

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im not like massivly into board games or tgc or anything like that but i have always enjoyed mahjong, ive no idea why but i find it both relaxing and enjoyable.
 

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Boardgame- Risk
Card Game- Magic: the Gathering, run a proliferate deck and a M12 illusion deck.
 

viperthejedi

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DetectiveSparky said:
Dominion is alright, but I preferred Resident Evil to it, same principle but you defeat zombies in a "Mansion Deck" that and I'm a fan of Resident Evil.

Last Night on Earth is awesome, I always get a kick out of the horrible pictures on all the cards.

If you want a lot of replayability an you have 4 to 6 people (I know it says 3-6 but it's more fun with a minimum of 4). Try out Betrayal at House on the Hill. It's played in 2 phases, the first phase is the exploration phase and you try to map out the mansion, at any point the game will shift into the second phase whether you like it or not. A player in the group is designated by somewhat random chance (dependent on what is found and where) as the "traitor" it the group and the traitor both have different objectives and you only know your own win condition. The group must work together in order to defeat the traitor. There's about 50+ different scenarios, and I've played about 5 different times and haven't had the same scenario twice yet. It plays differently each time.

If you want a game that has a fair amount of replayability but more competition, then try out Carcasonne. You compete to get the most points by the time the tiles run out. You try to finish cities, roads and try to get farms in order to gain the most points.

If you want a more cooperative game, then Pandemic is a lot of fun. Warning, your chances of winning, are extremely low. Our group has about a 95% failure rate, with the expansion it makes it easier to win but we have lost a lot still. You have a role and work together against a viral outbreak
Yeah we don't mind a bit of Carcasonne.

Betrayal at House on the Hill sounds intriguing. I'll have to keep an eye out for it. The traitor part sounds like the sabotaging cylons in the Battlestar Galactica board game.

Thanks for the post.
 

The_Evermind

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As for card games apples to apples can be a lot of fun with the right group of people.

For board games I really like Carcasonne, it is loads of fun and since the game involves building the board it is pretty much infinitely changeable, far more than something like Catan, plus if you want more Carcasonne, just buy another set and sit down at a bigger table!
 

DetectiveSparky

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viperthejedi said:
Yeah we don't mind a bit of Carcasonne.

Betrayal at House on the Hill sounds intriguing. I'll have to keep an eye out for it. The traitor part sounds like the sabotaging cylons in the Battlestar Galactica board game.

Thanks for the post.
I know I said 50+ scenarios for Betrayal but it's actually exactly 50 different scenarios. I checked because we just played again last night, and I'm apparently a horrible traitor because I've lost every time I have been the traitor, it beats constantly dying though. Look for the most updated version of the game (I have the second edition) because in the older edition you were able to get the underground cave in the upper floors...

Twilight (non sparkly vampires) is supposed to be a good game, but I've never played it.

There's Descent which is like a dungeon crawler game, and it's more campaign based, I wasn't that big of a fan of it, because I already play D&D and there were some bs rules I didn't agree with, like a monster being able to take a hard corner even though you were blocking it.

I really like Ticket to Ride: Europe. There are different Ticket to Rides, while they have the same premise, there are different additional rules for them all. Europe is the highest ranked of them.
 

DexterNorgam

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Card Game: Magic, still the king after all these years. I also liked the short lived Planescape: Bloodwars from TSR.

Board game: wow this one is kinda tough. I have several favorites. In no particular order...

The Dark Tower. (Milton Bradley, 1981) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Tower_%28game%29 I have always loved this game, I used to play it with an uncle who owned it in the 80s. Its a 1 to 4 player game in which players race to build an army while searching for the keys to the tower, the first to successfully open and assault the tower wins. The game features a battery operated electronic black tower that has a mechanical carousel with cells that get backlit to indicate various events and the status of battles. Its a very unique game and it really takes me back to my child hood when I hear the whir and the ancient beeping sound effects. (I got a copy off ebay some years ago). Great game. Anyone who wants to see what the single player mode was like can play a flash version of it at http://www.hotflashgames.com/index.php?page=game.php&gameid=3 Edit: The flash version is kinda cool and I included it for illustration but it really doesnt capture the feel of that black hunk of plastic whirring away.

HeroQuest. (partnership between MB and Games Workshop, 1990) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeroQuest Another game I loved from my childhood and would play any day as an adult. This game is quick and dirty to get playing but offers up surprising depth and some of the best laughs I've gotten while playing a board game. You can basically think of this as the great-grandfather of 2005's "descent" board game. The game play was classic dungeon crawl with the board slowly revealing itself and its dangers to the players. Great great fun, and amazing presentation for its day.

I thought about including another favorite of mine "Battletech" and/or "Classic Battletech". But those may not qualify as "board" games.

edit: Holy shit, how did I forget...

Axis and Allies: (milton bradley 1984 (at least the version I had.)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_%26_Allies Not for the faint hearted, this awesome WWII game could go very very very long. But I never hated it for how long games could go. If you are prepared to go the long haul you can have some very rewarding play resulting in alternate universe version of WWII... I have many fond memories of overnight games of this in my Marine barracks lobby.