Board Games - Whatcha playing?

[PanthersATL]

What are your favorites right now?

[PanthersATL]

No particular order, current favs are:

• Ticket to Ride
• Carcassonne
• Wits & Wagers
• Apples to Apples (*house rules only*)
• Family Feud
• Catchphrase
• Codenames
• Uno
• Bridge
• Euchre
• Hearts / Spades
• Sevens
• Bulls***
• Mexican Train
• Almost all the Jackbox games, like Quiplash

Kinda tired of all the Cards against Humanity-style games. CAH only seems to be worthwhile if you have a TON of cards available as opposed to just one or two packs that everyone's seen.

[Khyber53]

Ticket to Ride is great and the European Routes version is a lot of fun.

Sushi Go is a fun little card game, easy to pick up, always makes folks happy.

Flux is also a fun card game, with lots of variant packs.

Secret Hitler is darned good, and isn't as coarse as one would think.

Talisman is a classic, but be prepared for a long, long game.

Arkham Horror can be a blast if you have a group of friends who are into HP Lovecraft or at least know about the mythos.

Forbidden Island is a great cooperative game.

[PanthersATL]

1 hour ago, Khyber53 said:

Ticket to Ride is great and the European Routes version is a lot of fun.

Sushi Go is a fun little card game, easy to pick up, always makes folks happy.

Flux is also a fun card game, with lots of variant packs.

Secret Hitler is darned good, and isn't as coarse as one would think.

Talisman is a classic, but be prepared for a long, long game.

Arkham Horror can be a blast if you have a group of friends who are into HP Lovecraft or at least know about the mythos.

Forbidden Island is a great cooperative game.

We've enjoyed Sushi Go, too

Flux can be entertaining, but needs the right crowd.

I'm not a fan of Secret Hitler; I find other "guessing" games more entertaining. Maybe it needs more playthroughs on my part.

I like Talisman online; the iOS port seems pretty good.

Forgot to add earlier:  Pandemic and Azul.

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Been trying to play Betrayal at House on the Hill, Small World, and Gloom -- but nobody seems to want to dive into these.

[Khyber53]

1 hour ago, PanthersATL said:

We've enjoyed Sushi Go, too

Flux can be entertaining, but needs the right crowd.

I'm not a fan of Secret Hitler; I find other "guessing" games more entertaining. Maybe it needs more playthroughs on my part.

I like Talisman online; the iOS port seems pretty good.

Forgot to add earlier:  Pandemic and Azul.

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Been trying to play Betrayal at House on the Hill, Small World, and Gloom -- but nobody seems to want to dive into these.

Betrayal can be great fun. Haven't tried Small World and Gloom yet. 

[toldozer]

Ticket to ride (us and euro are both great) 

I recommend unstable unicorns if you haven't played it. It takes a good 10 rounds to understand what you're doing. We have several versions including the nsfw version. 

Otherwise we play rummy a lot.

Say anything is pretty good too

[PanthersATL]

1 hour ago, toldozer said:

recommend unstable unicorns if you haven't played it.

Exploding kittens is entertaining

[toldozer]

3 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

Exploding kittens is entertaining

I think it's the same concept. Cards have certain powers you have to get a certain amount if cards down to win?

[PanthersATL]

1 hour ago, toldozer said:

I think it's the same concept. Cards have certain powers you have to get a certain amount if cards down to win?

More of a russian roulette game, where the goal is to eliminate players by having them get stuck with an exploding kitten in their hands. 

[KSpan]

Anyone else ever play Twixt? It's an older game that I loved as a kid but haven't ever found anyone else who plays/has played it.

[PanthersATL]

On 12/26/2021 at 12:39 PM, KSpan said:

Anyone else ever play Twixt? It's an older game that I loved as a kid but haven't ever found anyone else who plays/has played it.

I have a ton of older games that nobody wants to dig into.

Have a number of friends who want to have "game night", but then say "bring a game" without having a plan of what they'd actually want to play.   Plus they invite 8-10 people, which severely limits the number of games one can play with a group that large.

[SCMunnerlyn1]

Really liking Villainous 

[Zod]

My brother and I used to play Risk a lot growing up. Was a whole lot of fun. 

[PanthersATL]

17 hours ago, SCMunnerlyn1 said:

Really liking Villainous 

Gave that to a niece, but hadn't heard back on whether she's enjoyed it or not.  What's the premise, hows the gameplay?