Favorite "board" Games?

So in a way, you understand....

 

i've tried it a few times. my immediate complaint was that it's harder to visualize your strategy from the overhead view that online chess always seems to have. which i'm sure i would get used to if i spent more time at it. but then my bigger complaint came after playing several games. it was much like playing any other online games, in that if you're losing, you lose, but if you're winning, the other player mysteriously disappears and you never get to finish the game.

 

Yeps, and sometimes the opponent wants to finish the game but just not in an hour or two. You know those chess players who put the board away and go further with the same game days later? That stuff happened a lot online as well.

 

Risk

 

I'm partial to the solitaire Dungeon in a Tin https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/90730/dungeon-tin

It's print and play, so it takes a little effort to get started. I play tested a bare bones BW version for hours while answering phones.



I made some changes to the components and modified the rules https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/66677/dungeon-tin-unofficial-rules

I then went all out and designed a high end version.

 

Scrabble........all the way!!!!!!!

 

Othello can also be quite rad.

 

monopoly is nice

 

We had some fun ones when we were kids.

I think it was called "legends of the hidden temple" actually that sounds like a Indiana Jones title but it was something like this and there was a wooden bridge leading to a like Inca statue and if you rolled a certain symbol you pushed the statue head down and it would rise again and roar and shake the bridge and if you fell off you had to start again. The goal was to move your piece to the statue and take a diamon in your back pack and then take it back over the bridge down the cliff across the river to the start and the more diamonds you have the better. And also when the. Bridge would shake you could lose your diamond.

So naturally for a little ancient history lady bug like me I though was so fun.

Here it is. Called "forbidden bridge" I swear it was called something way cooler lol.

I also use to use this as a set for my lego adventures.

 

Anything involving war. I really like the series of games released by MMP (formerly The Gamers) called SCS or Simple Combat System. The games in this series cover many historical events such as the operation to encircle Stalingrad in 1942 - 43. These types of games are played on maps with small unit counters representing the military forces that took part in the operation.

Generally it is a battle of wits just like chess, but so much more involved.

Here is a shot from Stalingrad Pocket from the SCS system.



Anyone interested in wargaming or any board gaming at all should check out https://boardgamegeek.com/

 

Milles Bornes, anyone?


I also have my old Smess game from when I was a kid. "Smess, the ninny's chess". Instead of pawns, rooks, and a king, we have ninnies, numbskulls, and a "Brain" (Yeah, that probably tells you all you need to know about me :unsure: )

 

Chess, while stoned...and naked.

 

If I said speed chess...On speed - would you believe me?

 

Fucking Heroquest.

 

Now that sounds intriguing...

 

^ so intriguing that he posted for two days and never came back...

 

I've probably already answered this question but I will say

Chess
Monopoly
Hidden temple