A long shot, perhaps, but worth an ask. Recently discovered them as an alternative to watching mindless TV in the evenings, and am steadily building up a library of them (an expensive hobby, but worth it)
I mainly play with my husband who's disgustingly competitive and a shameless gloater. We played two of our favourite games back-to-back: Splendor (a deck building game) and Lost Cities (a casual card game). He won both then said: 'Any other games you want me to beat you at today?'I threw the cards at him and am currently sulking with my laptop in another room
If anyone plays board games or has any solid recommendations, please share Otherwise let this thread die peacefully.
I'm 1-0 in chess this year but we're both hopeless at it, so that was a massive fluke. For example, we had both lost our queens within five moves. :superlol:
But I'm 0-1 in Scrabble, which seems much more important! I hope to get some Scrabble revenge in 2017.
I get owned in Scrabble :lol: I put it down to not memorising all the silly two-letter words that are somehow acceptable, like 'za' Flashy words mean little, placement is key. Still struggling to grasp that principle.
Words with Friends is a pretty good Scrabble variant/app Minus the rage quitting opponents.
Yeah they can be fun when you have the right people.
Will not mention Monopoly.
Trivia/inventive:
Articulate - pretty much have others answer questions on different topics based on clues given by yourself in turns.
Taboo - similar to above but you cannot particular words in your clues.
Mafia style games with a twist
- Bang - can't think of a simpler fun game. Play sheriff and his deputy or be those outlaws or maybe a self working renegade. You get bullets and guns with*certain properties and can drink beer to heal.
Saboteur - I absolutely adore this game.*This one you halve two teams: gold diggers vs saboteurs. Basically you take turns to form a map leading to either the gold or two duds (coal) using cards with paths associated. To add to the fun no one knows anybody. Even the saboteurs don't. Point of the saboteur is to trick the miners not to reach gold and sabotage their efforts by misdirecting the roads built or breaking the miners' tools etc.
Very fun. Sometimes endgame is reached quickly but you keep playing.
The Resistance - this one is the most sophisticated of the three that even I cannot explain it properly. Basically two factions. The Empire vs Resistance. In the resistance there are some sleepers. The Resistance must go on missions and complete them to win. However there is a trust element. Team leader ices who to go on missions and people have to vote whether to accept and why. If the mission goes ahead the people on mission can choose whether to make it fail or succeed. Then you wonder who failed you... Each subsequent round changes ratio of success:fail needed for each side.
Card builder - Dominion. It is tough for newbie at first but easy to understand later. The idea is you have money cards and action cards to buy property. You need to end up with most property to win (or when highest property card runs out). To achieve this you build a deck and use actions. Actions include turning your money into higher value or adding more actions, card cycling. Quite addictive but can take a while.
Monopoly deal is similar but actions are more concrete. Same aims though.
Jungle Speed - this is hilarious and painstaking for newbies. Sit in a circle and grab your cards. You play them out in turns. When you see a match you have to grab a totem pole toy in the middle. Last one takes the pile. Problem is the cards are geometrically similar but some are slightly different eg
Object has 8 edges instead if six. Make a mistake and you grab the pile. Test of reflexes and endurance (apparently based off a tribal game where some people died fighting over these )
These sound like awesome recommendations Thanks. Have played a few (e.g. Articulate, Taboo), but most are new to me. I've had my eye on Dominion for a while but want to improve my skills in Splendor before I get completely schooled.
Will almost certainly buy Saboteur to play over the Christmas holidays with my husband's nieces and nephews. Get them all set up on it while I follow the BSG ceremony :sport:
One more: Cards against humanity. This is not safe for children.
Good game for those late night parties with drinks. Basically mix cards and pick some weird answers to complement and enjoy whatever happens.
Eg. ------- woke up and decided it was time to ---------
You get some response cards.
You might use 'Michael Jackson and 'entertain the kids'
Note most of my mentioned games need 3 or more people to play. At least 4 (5-8 ideal) for Saboteur and Bang, Resistance. Jungle speed two can play but fun with more folks. Monopoly deal best with 3-4.
Using standard cards you can also play Big2 a classic.
Up and down the river is another one you'll need to read the rules to get it, very long game though with many rounds.
One more: Cards against humanity. This is not safe for children.
Good game for those late night parties with drinks. Basically mix cards and pick some weird answers to complement and enjoy whatever happens.
Eg. ------- woke up and decided it was time to ---------
You get some response cards.
You might use 'Michael Jackson and 'entertain the kids'
Cards against humanity is really great!
You definitely need drinks with that.
Of course, you should play it with people, who have a good sense of humour. No political correctness allowed.
Michael Jackson and kids is definitely not the most wicked, you'll encounter. :lol:
Stan del Potro beat me on Tennis Elboe 2013 tbf, he is actually a GOAT.
But I dunno. @BroTree123 or @InfoKenway are the people to ask for advice. They are the real GOATs at this game (and I swear I am not tagging them for tips to finally win more than one game against lazar)
I can play you at it some time, we can troll and try to make the rallies funny with gratuitous drop shots.
PANDEMIC My friend and I think we've conquered this beast (but just the original), playing with all epidemic cards regularly, and randomly allocating roles. On our last go we even managed to eradicate everything. Now I want to buy an extension, but not sure which to start with...
I liked a chinese computer version of it - called Rich Man, you could send people to jail, or to the hospital, and you could demolish other people's houses, take them for your own, or turn them into useless parks. You could buy special action cards to use. There are also 'spirits' that either help or hurt you in the game, as well as minigames.
Actually reminds me, a few suburbs away from where I live, there's a park with giant chess pieces on a giant chess board. Some oldies come over there to play, and people watch, and sometimes kids play too.
I think I'm there too. I can beat most of the club level mugs.
OK! We'll take our battles from the press room to the tennis court I'll be done with work on the 16th...expect a challenge around then (I'm using the term 'challenge' very loosely).
I used to be quite good at chess for a young kid. Haven't played since who-knows-when my last recollection is schooling a mate a year or so back, I'm sure I've declined tremendously :lol:
The TE AI can be very erratic. The can flawlessly return winner great first serves, but also clown around at other times. There's almost limitless customization with the 50 odd difficulty levels + the fact you can give the AI whatever stats you want. I recommend giving them 100 in everything and just moving difficulty up/down, but if you want to nerf them in another way you can change their stats.
Can't believe the TE 2013 mafia managed to hijack the board games thread so comprehensively and so quickly.
The AI is a massive clown on that game sometimes. I played against AI Djokovic with the difficulty set to Incredible-2, and he ended with 18 winners and 29 errors. The next time I played him with the same settings, he hit almost no errors and kept blasting these 90+ mph forehands. That bastard.
I also get weird fluctuations within matches. I was up 6-2 5-2 against the AI in a match recently, and as soon as I started serving for it, his defence suddenly become impossible to hit through. Every rally seemed to be 20+ groundstrokes and I ended up losing the set 5-7 with a shitload of errors. Ugh!
Can't believe the TE 2013 mafia managed to hijack the board games thread so comprehensively and so quickly.
The AI is a massive clown on that game sometimes. I played against AI Djokovic with the difficulty set to Incredible-2, and he ended with 18 winners and 29 errors. The next time I played him with the same settings, he hit almost no errors and kept blasting these 90+ mph forehands. That bastard.
I also get weird fluctuations within matches. I was up 6-2 5-2 against the AI in a match recently, and as soon as I started serving for it, his defence suddenly become impossible to hit through. Every rally seemed to be 20+ groundstrokes and I ended up losing the set 5-7 with a shitload of errors. Ugh!
I swear whoever came up with and designed Monopoly is a genius. Its such as simple, yet unique and hallmark game in history. Who doesn't know Monopoly? I wish it were me. I'd be a billionaire by now.
Reminds me I got a Doctor Who Monopoly set for my birthday need to open and play sometime
I love board games and have played a lot of them. Chess is obviously my biggest success, winning a couple of regional championships a lot of years back. But I enjoy playing backgammon, othello, checkers, risk, scrabble, you name it. Mainly strategy games if I can choose, if not anything really. I take pride in having lost 12 consecutive games of ludo against my niece, which is not an easy thing to accomplish without her suspecting that I'm throwing the games. I've played a lot of others too but suspect the Norwegian names for them won't mean anything to the international reader and I don't know what they're called elsewhere.
It's not so much these days, though. I prefer playing in person rather than online and haven't got many to play with.
I played Risk literally once in my entire life and won, because we played some variation of the rules where you were given missions on cards to complete. I was playing with 3 experienced players who were more focused on each-other I think, while I quietly plugged away at my missions. I'm taking my 1-0 record to the grave.
As for Cards against Humanity, you could theoretically get some MTF pals together and play it online. Pretend You're Xyzzy is a CAH clone where you can make your own cards, so instead of the usual fare the cards could be names of MTF members and terms like vulture/mug/clown.
If there's enough interest we can set up an online Risk game at some point Haven't tried it out, but I think WarGear.net is the best place to do it. You can set up a private room, and adjust turns to be played in real time (10 mins per go) or over 1-5 days depending on how available people are.
I'd be up for that No idea about best place to do it.
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