I second this. Rediscovered boardgames after my time with war games in the ‘70s and ‘80s. The modern board games are fantastic.
My wife and I tend to enjoy coop style Ameritrash and quite a few Euores as well.
Cool to find a fellow boardgamer on FR.
Happy gaming!
My sister and I have been talking about bringing back board games for whenever I’m on leave, or when the family is out at the cabin.
There’s been a kiosk at the mall selling board games, think I might brave the weekend crowds and go shopping next payday.
Cool vanity.
Once in a while I meet up with some old friends and have Axis and Allies games that get pretty intense.
I agree, used to own a Risk game that I bought in Frankfurt, figured anything having to do w/world conquest should be in German...
A few weeks ago during the Big Freeze my teenagers were stuck at home for several days and (due to some discipline issues) they were without electronics. They played card and board games the entire week and actually enoyed themselves a lot. The wife and I play games with them fairly often.
Hit up your local thrift store or garage sales in the summer. The number of rare and unique boardgames you can find is amazing.
I scored a copy of the hard to find Milton Bradley Dark Tower for 2.00. I had a blast playing it! I was able to then sell it for 300 dollars. Not too bad.
ping for later reading
“Who say Ukraine weak?”
Plain old Chess junkie here, but Risk is a another family favorite.
Monopoly was a fun option for awhile...until the kiddies decided to liven it up by making it a contact sport.
Others for consideration:
Wooden ships and Iron Men
1830
Acquire
Settlers of Catan
Air Force and the Dauntless expansion
Whenever I visit the family at Christmas we play “Last Night on Earth”.
IMO it’s the best Zombie game out there. It’s not particularly bloodthirsty, it’s tense and dramatic and it effortlessly engages people who don’t normally play boardgames.
I play against demons on my Ouija board game.
Richthofen’s War by Avalon Hill, 1972.
A Ticket to Ride
and
Carcassonne
are favorites at our house. Not hard to teach new players, and the gamss are done in an hour.
We also play Dungeons and Dragons sometimes, during school vacation periods.
we have a closet full of games and not enough time to play them.
Used to play also. My favorites were Terrible Swift Sword (Gettysburg)and Carrier War (WWII Pacific).
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