Favorite board games and why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ohh I used to LOVE playing Trouble as a kid…..I still do though unlike you I cannot stand how loud popping that bubble is! 🫨
Lol.

I also enjoy playing classics such as Monopoly + Life - - however these games tend to run a LONG time imo.

I also like the board game Clue .
Checkers is a lot of good fun too.

While UNO is not a board game > I always love a good game (or two!) especially after a good meal.

I think it fair to say that when most people say “board games” they probably mean “tabletop games”. It’s like someone asking for a Kleenex when they mean facial tissue. Even the major board game site Board Game Geek includes card games. Would you seriously not call Boggle a board game when it doesn’t have a board just dice? Or dominoes? Carcassonne which is a tile laying game?

games can be played elsewhere too, not just on a table. Rug, car seat, grass, stairs, bed, etc.. How about "surface"top games?

Sure, unless the game consists of no components like 20 questions.

[Anonymous]

Ticket to Ride!

[Anonymous]

We love games! Scrabble is my all-time favorite. I also love Cards Against Humanity in the right setting. We break out Who's the Dude when we have guests . . . it's a charades game with a blow-up doll that is as hilarious as you might imagine it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohh I used to LOVE playing Trouble as a kid…..I still do though unlike you I cannot stand how loud popping that bubble is! 🫨
Lol.

I also enjoy playing classics such as Monopoly + Life - - however these games tend to run a LONG time imo.

I also like the board game Clue .
Checkers is a lot of good fun too.

While UNO is not a board game > I always love a good game (or two!) especially after a good meal.

I think it fair to say that when most people say “board games” they probably mean “tabletop games”. It’s like someone asking for a Kleenex when they mean facial tissue. Even the major board game site Board Game Geek includes card games. Would you seriously not call Boggle a board game when it doesn’t have a board just dice? Or dominoes? Carcassonne which is a tile laying game?

I don't think that's a fair assumption at all. Board games are not the same as card games. We don't call card games "board games". They all fall under the larger category of games though.

[Anonymous]

Sequence, Clue, Life-but it can definitely get long,

We also like old fashioned dominoes and Yahtzee which aren’t board games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ohh I used to LOVE playing Trouble as a kid…..I still do though unlike you I cannot stand how loud popping that bubble is! 🫨
Lol.

I also enjoy playing classics such as Monopoly + Life - - however these games tend to run a LONG time imo.

I also like the board game Clue .
Checkers is a lot of good fun too.

While UNO is not a board game > I always love a good game (or two!) especially after a good meal.

I think it fair to say that when most people say “board games” they probably mean “tabletop games”. It’s like someone asking for a Kleenex when they mean facial tissue. Even the major board game site Board Game Geek includes card games. Would you seriously not call Boggle a board game when it doesn’t have a board just dice? Or dominoes? Carcassonne which is a tile laying game?

I don't think that's a fair assumption at all. Board games are not the same as card games. We don't call card games "board games". They all fall under the larger category of games though.

Board game cafes and board game retailers include card games like Dominion, Magic the Gatherong, etc. Board game hobbyists and conventions include card games. 🤷‍♀️ so, the point stands that board games often refers to table top games (that may also be played sometimes on other surfaces).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sequence, Clue, Life-but it can definitely get long,

We also like old fashioned dominoes and Yahtzee which aren’t board games.

If dominoes and Yahtzee are not board games, why are you recommending them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We love games! Scrabble is my all-time favorite. I also love Cards Against Humanity in the right setting. We break out Who's the Dude when we have guests . . . it's a charades game with a blow-up doll that is as hilarious as you might imagine it is.

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Charades with or without a doll isn’t a board game, so why are you recommending it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uno. Monopoly. Battleship. The oldies
Poker for us adults

My 7 and 10 year old and their cousins play poker with us and the grandparents. The 7 year old has the best poker face I've ever seen.

We also really love Dominion, which is also a card based game, and Boggle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forgot Labyrinth

Also, for young kids (early elementary), the Sleeping Queens card game is wonderful.

Why would you include Sleeping Wueens when it doesn’t include a board? (Good game BYW.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uno. Monopoly. Battleship. The oldies
Poker for us adults

My 7 and 10 year old and their cousins play poker with us and the grandparents. The 7 year old has the best poker face I've ever seen.

We also really love Dominion, which is also a card based game, and Boggle.

Poker is also not a board game.

Why are so many people suggesting card names when OP asked about board games? Could it be that the phrase “board games” is often (though not always) used to generally mean games played with components on a flat(-ish) surface??? 😳

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uno. Monopoly. Battleship. The oldies
Poker for us adults

My 7 and 10 year old and their cousins play poker with us and the grandparents. The 7 year old has the best poker face I've ever seen.

We also really love Dominion, which is also a card based game, and Boggle.

Boggle is a DICE game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Uno. Monopoly. Battleship. The oldies
Poker for us adults

My 7 and 10 year old and their cousins play poker with us and the grandparents. The 7 year old has the best poker face I've ever seen.

We also really love Dominion, which is also a card based game, and Boggle.

Boggle is a DICE game.

The dice sit in a board, for some definition of a board. Please take your meds.

[Anonymous]

The key to a good boardgame is simple rules/easy to pickup, variable gameplay that takes into account personalities of those playing. And bonus for allowing a variable number of players (4-8)

Top of the list:
- Telestrations (telephone game)
- Dixit (storytelling)
- Codenames (word association game)
- Avalon (mafia game)

We love boardgames and these are always a hit. Avalon is the most social but you must have have a crowd that is willing to have fun and not take things personally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We love games! Scrabble is my all-time favorite. I also love Cards Against Humanity in the right setting. We break out Who's the Dude when we have guests . . . it's a charades game with a blow-up doll that is as hilarious as you might imagine it is.

i

Charades with or without a doll isn’t a board game, so why are you recommending it?

Because it's fun. Lighten up, Francis.