Your Favorite Board/Table Top Games

[thorfrog]

Most favorite board games-

-Space Hulk/Advance Space Crusade
-Supremacy
-AD&D
-Warhammer 40k
-Risk
-Axis & Allies
-Dungeon Quest
-Dark Tower

[dmm]

Fun family games:
Sorry! (Our house rule is that you HAVE to say "SORRRRRRY!" when you knock someone back, like in the Carol Burnett Show skit where Mama's Family plays the game.)
Parcheesi (We play with D&D dice set. You can roll any 2 dice. This speeds up the game and adds more strategy.)
Lord of the Rings board game
Settlers of Cataan (I can't believe none of you Europeans mentioned that one.)
Samurai
and of course Risk, Life, Monopoly, and chess.

[tesco samoa]

Remember UNO

And Mills Brothers Mileage game.

I believe it was a french game.

You had to travel a certain distance for points (card game ) You could play a flat tire card etc... I really enjoyed that one.

[Gandalph]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:

And Mills Brothers Mileage game.

I believe it was a french game.

You had to travel a certain distance for points (card game ) You could play a flat tire card etc... I really enjoyed that one.

It is actually called Milles Bourne(sic)and my wife and I still play. Also Scrabble, Cribbage, and Backgammon

[capnq]

I've been collecting board games since I was 13; if I had to pick a favorite, I'd probably go with Avalon Hill's _Merchant of Venus_.

BTW, the two card games that mac mentioned are spelled Pinochle and Euchre.

[Pit Bull]

Favourate Board / Table top games

Hardcore Wargames:

- Starship Troopers (The proper Version)
- Flat Top (WW2 Carrier battles)
- Trireme (Ancient Naval Battles)

FRP

- AD&D
- Runequest
- Traveller

Shorter games for Groups

- Illuminati
- Aliens
- Battle Of The Halji (For grossness!)

Hmm. That leaves me one more to total ten.

Oh yeah - we used to play a lot of 'Judge Dredd' at uni.

Now, if someone could mod SE4 for commando raids rather than full scale occupation, then we could have a Starship Trooperesque game module for resolution......

Pit Bull.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Y'all are bringing back so many memories... I'd forgotten about playing Illuminati in college. That, and Star Fleet Battles, led to failing out my freshman year of college. Oh, and AD&D didn't help any.

I used to be a good Othello/Reversi player, Life is still good for a laugh now & then; and Clue is pretty good if you have at least 3 people.

I play Bridge, Spades, and Hearts with my girlfriend's parents; if we have more than four people, we generally play "Hand and Foot", a variation on Canasta.

With my family (and/or friends), we play various party games: Cranium, Sagarian, Scattergories, Hummmble, Outburst, Taboo, Rack-o, Uno, Mille Bornes, the list just goes on for quite a while and I don't even remember the names anymore...

I haven't played Monopoly in years; I used to play with a (now ex-) girlfriend, and since my goal was to find "alternate" ways to pay rent, it wasn't a very serious game...

Oh, and I played Risk a few times back in college too.

How about Car Wars? That was good for a diVersion from RPG's (I won't bother listing all the RPG's I used to play...)

I think I've gone on long enough. Anyone else?

[Captain Kwok]

My favourite table top game is rod hockey. You know with the little hockey men that turn and twist...very fun stuff.

I guess my favourite board game would be Balderdash where you make up fake definitions for words you never heard of before...very fun.

I play Scrabble with my wife a lot, but she almost always wins. I would say our vocab is the same but she just knows how to make the best moves at every turn. I least I have Trivia games

[tesco samoa]

A few friends of mine and I (12 years ago) used to take 5 risk Boards and combine them all. So you could only travel from one board to the other at alaska and kam..(i am not going to try)... 20 people would play. You would be spread out over the 5 Boards and then we played until there was one person left. ( mind you this would take a few days)

[Saxon]

D&D. Little lead men on the table top, running around and killing orcs. We had a big pLastic sheet that you unrolled and could write on with overhead markers. We also had a huge piece of paper with one inch squares drawn on it. Life was good.

I did buy the D&D Battlesystem, which was a table top war game and we played out a few big battles that were worked into the campaign, but it was not as much fun.

With Mom and Dad we played Life, Careers and Rummoli. Sure, Rummoli is a card game, but with that big pLastic sheet and all the pennies we saved up, it took up as much space as a board game. Backgammon was also big with Dad and I, as was Stratego. He had no idea what he was doing, he just liked seeing his young son get excited when the cunning plans worked out. Of course, I did not realize this until I was much older, so I was convinced I was a Stratego god.