Board/Card Game Discussion Thread

[DJStarstryker]

I don't recall ever seeing a board game thread here, but even if there was one, it probably is super old. I will make one myself.

Does anyone here play board/card games? What are your favorites?

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Video games have been my primary hobby for most of my life, but I'm feeling burn out on them lately. Maybe I've been looking at screens too much. Anyway, for those who don't know, board games are in a renaissance right now. There are TONS of great board games that have come out in the last decade or so. The really cool thing is board games I think are a lot better than they used to be, overall, before this renaissance started.

My favorite board game lately and has been consuming most of my time is Gloomhaven. It's an expensive game with a giant box, but if you like it you will guaranteed be playing it for a long time - well over 100 hours. There's tons to unlock and do with this. I also like how it's like a video game RPG except, well, without being a video game.

I've also recently gotten:
- Betrayal at House on the Hill, which is a horror-themed RPG-ish (though way less complicated and involved than Gloomhaven)
- Pandemic, which is a co-op strategy game where you try to save the world from getting infected by diseases
- Azul, which is a casual tile placing versus game where you try to earn more points than the other players by placing tiles and preventing the other players from taking tiles they want

 

[LambdaDelta]

I play this broken trashfire mess of a card game called yu-gi-oh! from time to time

 

[LadyDestani]

I like the old classic board games like Scrabble, Monopoly, and Chess. Scrabble is my favorite but nobody ever wants to play me.

I also play a little Magic: The Gathering, but very casually. I usually just help my husband test decks at home. I'm really not into the whole tournament thing.

 

[Coffins]

I adore betrayal!! Such a fun game

 

[Breath Mint]

I don't really play board games anymore but I have apps for Parcheesi, Battleship, Yugioh, Poker, Hearts, and Spades on my phone. I play them all fairly often; they're fun and great for passing time. I've also played a board game called Titanic before which I remember being fun.

 

[lowaltitude]

I love irl card games such as Cards Against Humanity, ***** Happens, Werewolves of Miller's Hollow (if that's what it's called in English lol) and Exploding Kittens!! It's a lot of fun to bust out a simple card game on any party & just play. They're all relatively easy to explain & understand and a blast to play together. These kinds of games certainly have their charms.

 

[Breath Mint]

I love irl card games such as Cards Against Humanity, ***** Happens, Werewolves of Miller's Hollow (if that's what it's called in English lol) and Exploding Kittens!! It's a lot of fun to bust out a simple card game on any party & just play. They're all relatively easy to explain & understand and a blast to play together. These kinds of games certainly have their charms.

Oh yeah I forgot about Cards Against Humanity. Bananagrams is another good one as well.

 

[Psydye]

Hmm. I enjoy this game called Zombies!!! my friend got ages ago! There's also Descent: Journeys in the Dark, which is sort of a RPG dungeon crawler w/ someone playing as the "dungeon master" and the other players trying to win against them! A simpler game I enjoy is Ingenious. I haven't played any of these games in ages though! Would like to pick' em up again.

If anyone's curious a great place to get board games from is Fantasy Flight Games' website! It's where I got Descent and Ingenious from!

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I'm part of a board game club in uni and one of my favorite ones to play is Catan. When I watched the Nintendo Direct back in sept and I saw they were releasing a game with board games, and one of them was Catan, I about lost it lol


To be bonest, I'm actually not a big fan of board games, mostly because I'm crap at sitting still (even with things like movies). But sometimes its nice to play, and I especially like watching others play.

 

[oath2order]

I don't recall ever seeing a board game thread here, but even if there was one, it probably is super old. I will make one myself.

Does anyone here play board/card games? What are your favorites?

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Video games have been my primary hobby for most of my life, but I'm feeling burn out on them lately. Maybe I've been looking at screens too much. Anyway, for those who don't know, board games are in a renaissance right now. There are TONS of great board games that have come out in the last decade or so. The really cool thing is board games I think are a lot better than they used to be, overall, before this renaissance started.

My favorite board game lately and has been consuming most of my time is Gloomhaven. It's an expensive game with a giant box, but if you like it you will guaranteed be playing it for a long time - well over 100 hours. There's tons to unlock and do with this. I also like how it's like a video game RPG except, well, without being a video game.

I've also recently gotten:
- Betrayal at House on the Hill, which is a horror-themed RPG-ish (though way less complicated and involved than Gloomhaven)
- Pandemic, which is a co-op strategy game where you try to save the world from getting infected by diseases
- Azul, which is a casual tile placing versus game where you try to earn more points than the other players by placing tiles and preventing the other players from taking tiles they want

Betrayal is great. This one time I was doing the Dracula scenario, and I was about to die so I just kept running away to drag it out. We got to the final boss way too early.

Terraforming Mars is fun as ****.

 

[Imbri]

My writing group does a game night once a month. Between all of us, we have a lot of games. Some favorites are Unstable Unicorns, Pretending to Grownup (the artwork on that is hilarious), One Night Ultimate Werewolf, Sushi Go!, and Rummykub.

A couple of the people go to events, so they sometimes come in with new games that are just being released, which is also cool.

 

[Xara]

i think my favourite card game is uno; my family and i likely aren?t playing it right but who cares since we?re having fun lol

 

[EpicGamer12]

I've been playing a lot of Gloomhaven with some pals recently. It's like D&D but more focused on turn-based strategy and less roleplay. It's fun!

I'm also playing my second game of Twilight Imperium this coming Monday as its a Holiday in Canada. The first game of TI I played took 6-7 hours.

 

[Mayor Monday]

My two absolute favorite games are Monopoly and Chess. I get a little too fierce when I play Monopoly, though. lol

I'd like to play chess more often, but no one has the time or interest.

 

[Antonio]

Cards against humanity anyone?

 

[Megan.]

I like some of the older board games like Monopoly and Cluedo. My favourite card game is Cards Against Humanity and I’m really looking forward to Muffin Time which should be out soon. I have Unstable Unicorns which looks fun but I haven’t had the chance to play yet.

 

[cornimer]

I often play board and card games when I visit my grandma. Azul and Codenames are the latest two we have gotten into, they are really fun (my grandma especially likes Codenames). We have been playing Scrabble for years as well. My personal favourite has been Game of Life since I was a kid. I also enjoy Through the Desert (you basically just make long lines of different coloured camels).

In terms of card games, my grandma's favourite is 31. Whenever the whole family comes over for Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. we all play 31 together. I personally like Bohnanza (it's like a farming card game) but it's a bit too complicated for my grandma.

 

[Midoriya]

RWBY: Combat Ready and Cards Against Humanity are my favorites.

 

[Imbri]

I like some of the older board games like Monopoly and Cluedo. My favourite card game is Cards Against Humanity and I’m really looking forward to Muffin Time which should be out soon. I have Unstable Unicorns which looks fun but I haven’t had the chance to play yet.

I have Unstable Unicorns and the Chaos and Control games. They're a lot of fun and the cards are great. I recently got Runes and Regulations, but haven't had a chance to play that yet.

 

[Brookie]

I like the non-famous games, like Scattegories, Mr. Listers and Settlers of Catan (that's famous though)