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Craig Arko Wichita Wind Surge

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Anyone a board game nerd?

Since age 7. Mostly war and strategy games (think Avalon Hill and up), although 221B Baker Street was also a huge fav. Got into tabletop RPGs at 17 and haven't much looked back.

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Since age 7. Mostly war and strategy games (think Avalon Hill and up), although 221B Baker Street was also a huge fav. Got into tabletop RPGs at 17 and haven't much looked back.

Rail Baron! An Avalon Hill fav of mine!

 

My circle of friends aren't really into board games, I mostly play when family comes to visit ... board and card games.

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 Got into tabletop RPGs at 17 and haven't much looked back.

 

As a "retired" tabletop D&D'er (still hit digital as much as time allows), I'm all over the Betrayal at Baldur's Gate board when it comes out this fall.

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Have difficulty finding friends (and especially couple friends) to come over to play them.

 

This is the bane of tabletop rpg's, not enough nerds (without a life) to go around.

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Board games would be fun but I work until 9PM each night (late start) and travel most weekends. I am enjoying the new card games that are coming out though. Exploding Kittens (1st expansion is a must) and Sushi Go are both camping favorites among my friends. CAH would be great but typically our groups are at least 50% non native English speakers (I live in Taiwan) and it would be a big struggle to understand.

 

Are there any recommendations for quick to play/learn card games out there? I also play these with my ESL students occasionally.

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Rail Baron! An Avalon Hill fav of mine!

 

My circle of friends aren't really into board games, I mostly play when family comes to visit ... board and card games.

I love Rail Baron. Probably my all time favorite.

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If you're looking to beef up your inventory of board games, Amazon is having a one day sale for 100 different board games today. Up to 40% off on a few of them.

I picked up Grand Austria Hotel and Kingdomino. A few of them were showing up out of stock but have come back.

 

Also in the sale is Isle of Skye which I really enjoyed. It has a somewhat unique mechanism, to me anyway, in price setting and bidding. I also enjoy legends of andor (more of a dungeon crawl) with the right group that is in this sale.

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We got the Terraforming Mars board game. It won a lot of awards and was the big game last year. Really, really fun game to play.

I played Terraforming Mars for the second time on Friday night and absolutely love the game. And most definitely will buy it. Even better I dominated the game but had a lot of luck (12 points from awards) and things that worked well without knowing that they would work out so well. 

My first big benefit was placing a city first with Tharsis Corp and placing a second city early and controlling a valuable area of the board that I later completely forested. I also got each set of production going and especially plants which allowed me to cheaply forest around my cities.

 

And my friend's friend made some amazing 3-D tiles and I hope he will make some for me when I get the game later this year. I didn't think I needed any fancy tiles until I saw these.

 

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Favorite games right now - mostly quick and easy to learn/play card games

 

Sushi Go (I recommend Sushi Go Party though)

Zany Penguins

Coup

Lost Cities (played with a 6 colored generic deck)

Arboretum 2 player (played with the same deck as above)

Terraforming Mars - I don't have the correct group to play board games very often but I really love this game (don't own it yet)

Codenames (Pictures) - very good large group (6-10+ players) game

Exploding Kittens - still makes the list but better with students and brand new games (a lot of luck involved)

 

I also have One Night Ultimate Werewolf but have only played once so far with my oldest group of students. Hive Pocket looks like a great game but haven't played it much since it is a 2 player game.

 

Next up on my buy list (probably around Christmas time)

Terraforming Mars

7 Wonders

Bang the Dice Game

Badger Deck - 10 suited deck with 20 cards in each suit - great for travel or trying new games

Dixit (possibly wait)

Onitama - wait since it is a 2 player game 

Lords of Scotland - interesting gameplay (or get Condotierre if I can find it)

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The boardgame bug has completely bitten me and I keep setting up board game nights with friends. Cheap shipping to Taiwan on Amazon is also killing me.

 

7 wonders
Jaipur
Ticket to ride
Carcassonne
7 wonders duel

Keith Law has a great list

Here is Keith Law's list for 2017 (new games only)

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-10-best-board-games-of-2017.html

I haven't heard of many of these but he certainly has an interesting list

1. Azul - sounds like a fantastic game

2. Whistle Stop - another train game

3. Photosynthesis - a game about growing trees and avoiding shadows (slow growth)

4. Wasteland Express - post-apocalyptic delivery game

5. Ex Libris - a set collection game that requires alphabetical sorting of book titles and includes banned books - looks very interesting but expensive

6. Skyward

7. Yamatai - includes the vermilion Japanese torii's as part of the game - love it

8. La Flamme Rouge - a bicycle race game - sold

9. Mole Rats in Space - from the creator of Pandemic - simplified coop for children

10. Barenpark

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Just a few other pretty solid games 

  1. Voyages of Marco Polo - I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. You have to go to different cities and meet certain contracts. You only get five turns so it's a fast game (30 mins) but really competitive. 
  2. Viticulture - wine making game. Funny review of it here.
  3. Castles of Burgundy. Really cutthroat game. My wife and I have gotten actively mad at each other over this game and if you have four players, it's just evil. 
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Bought Pandemic for the family. It's very fun, and definitely recommend it.

But a couple things. First, some of the rules are a little hard to understand the first couple of times you play it. Second, once you beat it, it kind of loses it's luster.

But, it's the first time we've played a cooperative board game, and we really enjoyed that aspect of it.

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Favorite games right now - mostly quick and easy to learn/play card games

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Codenames (Pictures) - very good large group (6-10+ players) game

I've gotten this game for Mrs Ash as a stocking stuffer... we'll see how she likes it.

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Took me a bit to find this thread. Didn’t realize it was as old as it was. Here’s a new one. I ordered it because, well, lol, I just couldn’t not.

 

https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/11/05/cta-board-game-will-make-you-play-as-an-l-train-fight-off-pigeon-swarms-and-more-to-get-around-chicago/?fbclid=IwAR1UGDHcJuujK0tPbXrF4O0V64O_vZenAM4Y2sjjJJnlw6dAh8CH7_XQsvg

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