Board Games!

My girlfriend and I have been getting a lot more into playing different board games, from Othello and Scrabble to me trying to get her into some of the DnD Adventure board games. What are your favorite games, whether tabletop RPG or Miniatures games or classics like Chess or Monopoly. I'm always looking for suggestions to try something new.

Recently BattleTech has caught my eye, if I can find people to play with.

Monopoly's great, but sometimes set up can be a pain. I love playing Sorry.

@JustPlainLucas: Sorry is another one of our faves, tbh I never have had the patience or interest to sit through an entire game of monopoly. Life is a good one too for a chill night.

I'm a big fan of risk

Monopoly is the worst. It's literally based on a game that was designed to not be fun because it was created as a criticism of capitalism.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-monopoly-is-not-a-fun-game-2017-9

But hey, if anyone actually enjoys it that's their opinion, but I'd say that's setting the bar pretty low in terms of what's a good board game. That can be a good thing, since there's nowhere to go but up.

As for some good ones, there are some pretty well known ones. Depending on what you enjoy, some of them are board games version of PvE video games where they are co-op rather than competitive.

Pandemic is a classic. Players work cooperatively to try to stop a global pandemic that gets worse every turn. There are a bunch of variations with different modules. There's even a "Legacy" version where you actually write on the board, and each time you play (up to 10 times before you need to replace it) the subsequent play is influenced by the previous time you played.

One of my favorites is a variation of Pandemic which is a Call of Cthulhu version where instead of dealing with diseases you are paranormal investigators trying to stop cultists from summoning old ones.

Tsuro is a competitive game where you build the board using tiles that guide your stones along paths. The goal is to slide your opponents off the edge of the board before you get put out.

Settlers of Catan is a classic but I haven't personally played it.

Ticket to Ride is supposed to be good, too.

I rarely played any Board Games in my lifetime. I say, I only played just 3 board games that happened to be my favorite are:

• Dungeons & Dragons
• Crossfire
• Mouse Trap

Never could get into Monopoly and I don't like monopoly in real life situations for that matter.

Dungeon! Dunno if it's the same as the Wizards of the Coast version.

God I loved the 80s.

I really like word games or question games like Trivial Pursuit or such. Those kinds are probably my favourite type of board games. It's been a while since I played though.

I am also a big fan of Scrabble. I also have been playing a lot more Words With Friends and solving crossword puzzles since this whole quarantine craziness began. Anyone want to play Scrabble online or Words With Friends? Let me know :)

@fluffyfoa:If you are wanting to get back into word games and like playing Scabble, I made this handy Must-Know Scrabble Words infographic that details groups of words you should learn/memorize to help you win :) You can find the infographic here: https://www.crosswordsolver.com/scrabble-word-finder Cheers!

Blood Bowl. Football with Elves, Orcs, Dwarves and all the rest. It's like the Dungeons and Dragons of football. Build players up with EXP to get new skills. Take joy in killing your opponents players. A damn good reason to sit around a table drinking for 3 hours at a time.

@heathen75: This game has caught my eye at board game stores before, I will check this out.

Me and my girlfriend played battleship the other day, both really did not enjoy it lol. Couldn't wait for one of us to lose for it to be over lmao.

@ratchetclank92: Be ready to spend some money. Game itself runs about $100 and comes with an Orc and Human team to start with. New team box sets for other races are around $30 each. Great game though. I've been playing off and on for over 20 years now. There is a PC and console version of the game that usually runs pretty cheap if you want to check it out without committing that much money. Playing at a table with friends and drinks is much better though.

A lot of the games you mentioned are awful, or at the very least are designed for kids. Battleship is a game of random guessing so you really shouldn't expect much out of it.

A lot of the "classics" are pretty awful. Direct 1v1 competitive games like Chess or Othello are fine but they are dependent on your opponent. If you aren't well matched then it's not going to be a great time for either of you. Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble are fine, but stuff like Sorry, Life, Battleship, Monopoly, etc are all pretty big drags and I think people only play them out of sheer nostalgia. There are so many better games out there, many of which are suggested in this thread.

@Byshop: Never play Battleship board game, but I did watch and enjoy the movie. I mean, it was just another random sci-fi action flick with the title Battleship name had nothing to do with the board game :)