<p>The Magazines thread (plus the pouring rain outside) prompted this one: What are your favorite board games, old or new?</p>
<p>We’re huge fans of the New Yorker Caption Contest Game, Apples to Apples, and Taboo.</p>
<p>My D loves board games and I am a real disappointment for her because I rarely want to play. If I do cave in, there are only a few I have a tolerance for: Scattergories, Yahtzee (I have always loved Yahtzee and think it is because there is a limit as to how long it will take), Trivial Pursuit, and Scene It. I also enjoy Mastermind.</p>
<p>Scrabble.</p>
<p>I don’t think of Yahtzee as a board game, but like that, too; H and I played last night (until I got fed up with his uncharacteristic show of bad sportsmanship and decided four rounds was enough; it’s NOT MY FAULT I rolled a yahtzee immediately after he did. Geez, way to get all grumpy, honey – it’s just a game!!!). I like card games, too, and wish I could get someone, anyone, to play Skip-Bo with me. We play poker, Split, Uno, and other card games.</p>
<p>Apples to Apples is popular with my friends; easy to play with an odd number of people (almost typed “an odd group,” which fits, but wasn’t what I was really going for 
). S and I have spent many an hour over Monopoly when he was little, but haven’t played for a long while.</p>
<p>I love to play games. My group of friends – all of us approaching or past 50 – still get together several times a year to play games.</p>
<p>My family plays Scrabble primarily, but we play Pictionary every year or so. Apples to Apples is fun, too. I want to look into buying it for our house.</p>
<p>Trivial Pursuit is a family favorite at every holiday. Although you need the Millenium edition (or newer, if there is newer) to make it at all fair for the younger-than-baby-boomer set.</p>
<p>We also love Mexican Train dominoes, which is not quite a board game - but same idea.</p>
<p>I love Scrabble but cannot rally the troops for that.</p>
<p>Although it was not specifically about board games, this thread from Dec. 2006 might be worth a look: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/282110-favorite-games.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/282110-favorite-games.html</a></p>
<p>Depending on the age of those playing, my suggestions would be different. At our house, we’re big fans of strategy board games (think “German board games”), and we’re WAAAAY past Settlers of Catan. Among those we’re quite fond of are:</p>
<p>Carcasonne
Acquire
Puerto Rico
El Grande
Power Grid
Caylus</p>
<p>We also play 42 (Texas domino bidding-partnership game), and occasionally bridge and Hearts (none of those are board games, though).</p>
<p>I can’t wait for both boys to be back for a little while this summer so we can have our 4-person Family Game Nights again!</p>
<p>Chess. .</p>
<p>Does anyone know of a good board game (besides Scrabble – we play that all the time) to play if there are only two people? My friend and I love board games but can’t really get other people as interested, and a lot of games just don’t work with two people.</p>
<p>^^^card games?</p>
<p>i like scrabble, life, and yahtzee</p>
<p>TABOO!
although idk if that counts as a board game
there’s not really a “board” or anything…</p>
<p>apples to apples rocks too</p>
<p>I think I’ve played Careers with two. Upwords is fine, it’s a bit faster paced than Scrabble and in some ways more fun, or at least less serious. I like Apples to Apples, but it gets old after a while. If all four of us are home we mostly play bridge. No one plays Mastermind with me because I always beat them. My kids play chess, but I’m no good at it. I really like Chinese checkers, but my Mom is the only other person I know who really enjoys it. I like Pente - that’s a good two person game, and if you are smarter than me you could take up Go.</p>
<p>All time family favorite of recent years is The Settlers of Catan. Oldest son started playing it with friends in high school (they would have marathons). It can be time consuming but a great deal of fun. The “board” changes every time!</p>
<p>Cribbage is a great 2 person game. And travels well.</p>
<p>I love a game called Rail Barons - plays best with 3 people. It is sort of like Monoploy except it is a map of the United States with all of the railroads at around the beginning of the 20th century. You get a destination and have to travel over various railroads to get there. There are some destinations that only have one line going to it, so the cost gets really high if someone else has purchased that railroad. Great for geography and history buffs!</p>
<p>We’ve enjoyed a few games of “The Worst Case Scenario” board game (figure out how to solve life-threatening problems…).</p>
<p>Favorite board game at our house: Risk.</p>
<p>DH and I make a mean team at Trivial Pursuit, though.</p>
<p>Last week a friend was telling me about a game she and her (extremely smart h.s. junior) son enjoy, called Bananagrams. You choose letters and then work by yourself on a crossroad puzzle, I think, competing with others. . . She said it’s a blast.</p>
<p>We love Apples to Apples and are glad to get these new European suggestions!</p>
<p>That would be crossWORD puzzle, ahem.</p>
<p>We enjoy Balderdash.</p>
<p>Another point in its favor – those who post on this board would most likely be very good at it!</p>
<p>As for games two people can play – my daughter and I play Uno and Trouble, although of course both are very lowbrow.</p>
<p>daughters love Whoonu?</p>
<p>Cranium is fun – when we have participants of all ages we pair up into teams of older player/younger player.</p>
<p>The men in my family are hopeless at Scene It. They remember NOTHING. And now refuse to play it.</p>