Played this with the family tonight. It was stupid, awesome fun. Highly recommended:
You'll thank and/or hate me later.
Played this with the family tonight. It was stupid, awesome fun. Highly recommended:
You'll thank and/or hate me later.
We haven't had a chance to do it in a while because COVID, but we used to play board games some what regularly with my sister's family. Anything from Exploding Kittens to Cards Against Humanity.
I'll have to check that one out.
Ok, if You have a core group of board geeks like I do, then check out Everdell. But if you are REALLY hardcore- Gloomhaven, Seafall, Charterstone,
Sequence...
The Munchkin series is pretty awesome.
It's the "beer and pretzels" version of a dungeon crawl. Eventually you just end up trying to screw over the person who is closest to winning.
As a teaser on "Superfight", I won several rounds with a John Cena/Jason tag team aided by an invisibility cloak and an army of flying monkeys.
Within the last year or so, chess, which is always on the table in the living room, Oregon Trail, Exploding Kittens, and Ticket to Ride.
A buddy of mine is marketing a game he invented, called Argute. Which I think is pretty cool that he's doing that!
Anxiously awaiting for the Rallyman Dirt Kickstarter to deliver.
Family seems to like Between Two Castles of Mad King Ludwig.
Bang is apparently an even better game if you drink.
Betrayal At House On The Hill is pretty fun, but it needs some time to play and it works better in a group of 6-8 players (not 3-6 as they mention). It's not overly complicated but it's not Slap Jack, either.
Catan, Carcasson, Ticket To Ride, Exploding Kittens, Here Kitty Kitty, Chess, Star Realms, Valley Of The Kings. And probably a few more I'm not remembering off the top of my head.
No one plays Monopoly anymore??
In reply to ShawnG :
Munchkin is super fun. My FIL is really into table top games, but the rest of us are far more casual so we play that one together.
We have a standing Friday night board game with friends. We switch things up a lot, but some favorites:
Villainous (both Disney and Marvel versions)
Haunted Mansion
Jaws
Flamme Rouge
Bunny Kingdom
Bears vs Babies
Nuns on the Run
I need to get Dominion and some expansions, I love that game.
Placemotorsports said:No one plays Monopoly anymore??
Why on earth would they?
Placemotorsports said:No one plays Monopoly anymore??
Yup. Building a custom board currently, because the 13 year old doesn't have her own set yet and no one sells the one I want.
I've got Deadpool, Dana has nightmare before Xmas, and the 6 year old has a trolls monopoly junior.
We play a lot of kids versions for the youngest, but cards against humanity will come out when the youngest is away.
Dana and I have moved board gaming to the Xbox. When of fortune, jeopardy, trivial pursuit, boggle, battleship, monopoly, even risk. Scrabble is broken and doesn't play.
People don't play Monopoly because people who suck at it have ruined it by adding stupid rules that aren't in the book.
Free parking is just free parking, there's no mythical prize for landing on it.
If you can't win at Monopoly using the book rules, you're not being ruthless enough.
It's called "Monopoly" fer cryin out loud.
Monopoly is a weird one. I'd you play by the rules, the goal is to eliminate other players as quickly as possible. Usually the first one is out 15 minutes into a 3 hour game. The goal is at odds with fun family time so everyone makes the game worse so little Jimmy doesn't get sad when he gets booted.
German style games keep everyone playing even when they have no chance of winning. There is enough to do that the kids don't feel like they are being excluded. Standard examples are Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, and Carcassonne. When playing with adults, I start off with King of Tokyo, Love Letter, or Saboteur.
We do some of the Jackbox games on the Xbox as well, kids seem to like them and their phones are involved so it's a win win.
My kids have played Monopoly with their friends within the last few months. Probably been a year or two since I've played. I guess the drop in popularity of the game mirrors the lack of concern over real-life mega corporations that have influenced government and grown to a point where they enjoy no real competition.
1988RedT2 said:I guess the drop in popularity of the game mirrors the lack of concern over real-life mega corporations that have influenced government and grown to a point where they enjoy no real competition.
There is some irony in that statement, going all the way back to the game's origins: NYT story
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