Favorite Board Game Round-Up

[Trike]

As with the roundups of Favorite Fantasy Series and Top Sci-Fi Books, here’s one for board games. Lots of sci-fi and fantasy games represented.

Every Board Game YouTuber's #1 Game of All Time
https://youtu.be/j_epMFUOAFM?si=eKsvC...

[Chris K.]

My friends and I played a lot of Axis & Allies during the summer when I was a kid.

Good old Clue is another favorite.

[Trike]

Chris K. wrote: "My friends and I played a lot of Axis & Allies during the summer when I was a kid.

Good old Clue is another favorite."

In the Midwest we had regular board game nights, but that isn’t something people do on the East Coast much, and I miss that.

One time at a St. Patrick’s Day party at my parents’ house we played the game Bonkers, which is the one where all the moves are determined by the players. You roll the dice and whatever spot you land on you place a card which determines that spot’s rule.

My friend George was trying to create traps to stop, slow and force you to go backwards while my brother was doing the opposite, trying to create a path that let you zoom around the board by getting extra rolls and go-ahead type of things.

So if you rolled like a 4, you’d hit a “move ahead 5 spaces”. Five spaces later you’d get a “roll again”, and if you were lucky, you’d hit “back 1” which would land you on “ahead 12”, and so on. So some turns we’d be zooming around the board two or three or five times, and you’d have a significant lead. BUT! You were always in danger of hitting George’s opposite layout, which would immediately undo everything you’d just gained, and you’d go careening around the board backwards, erasing all your points. And then there was my other friend Steve who was basically acting as a Random Number Generator, placing cards haphazardly.

It was absolute chaos and we were all screaming with laughter. Halfway through the game we had 20 people gathered around watching the shenanigans. That was 25 years ago and people still talk about it to this day.

[Phil]

I've played lot of the games that they mentioned in the video.
If I eliminate pure RPG's (like Dungeons and Dragons) from contention then my favorite and a lot of the runners-up are as similar to that as you can get in a board game. It turns out I prefer cooperation to competition.
1. Gloomhaven
2. Betrayal at the House on the Hill
3. Arkham Horror
4. Lords of Waterdeep
5. Ticket to Ride

[Tamahome]

I keep meaning to get into them, especially the post Catan/eurogame ones. I have a free account on board game arena but I'm afraid to play Catan online and have people yell that I don't know how to play.

[Malaraa]

I've played several of the ones mentioned, and am familiar/have heard/seen most of the rest. Some of my favs (not necessarily in order, preference is situational)

Excavation Earth
Karmaka
Pandemic
This War of Mine

I think if I ever get a chance to play it a few times, Flamecraft might join the list, but it remains to be seen.

[Joseph]

My own personal all-time favorite is Tyrants of the Underdark, a mash-up of deck-building and area control where 2-4 players play feuding Drow houses in the Underdark stabbing each other in the face and/or the back.

Most recent I played was the new edition of Kemet, which was fun but we were just playing it as a two-player game; I think I need to get it to the table with at least four people to see its full potential.

[terpkristin]

Trike wrote: "In the Midwest we had regular board game nights, but that isn’t something people do on the East Coast much, and I miss that.."

I have a group that does it once a month or more. Not weekly because we are all too busy for that. So you just need to come farther down. Or possibly find a FLGS. :)