Board games

Parent Cafe
21

<p>0h, yes, EK4. I also got Ticket to Ride for DH.
He’s all about the trains in life, he will love it!
A bit pricey, but hey, it IS Christmas.</p>

22

<p>We play a fair amount of board games, but the one our family and the extended family ALWAYS gravitates back to when we get together is electronic Catch Phrase - good for a small or large group! We have more funny stories around playing this game!!!
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Parker-Brothers-5712-Hasbro-Electronic/dp/B001RNFQNK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1418131798&sr=8-4&keywords=electronic+catchphrase+game”>http://www.amazon.com/Parker-Brothers-5712-Hasbro-Electronic/dp/B001RNFQNK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1418131798&sr=8-4&keywords=electronic+catchphrase+game&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

23

<p>You can play Pente on a Go board. Just look up the rules on line. In fact when I was little we used to play a game called Gmokku which was very similar to Pente.</p>

24

<p>I have never played (and don’t know that it’s my cup of tea) but I know Cards Of Humanity is popular these days - for those who want to try it without purchasing it, this is apparently a way to download and print the game cards. Maybe someone who has played before can confirm if this is all you need to play, a good version or whatever!!!
<a href=“http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_MainGame.pdf”>http://s3.amazonaws.com/cah/CAH_MainGame.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

25

<p>You can definitely download and print out the Cards Against Humanity cards. Have fun cutting them all out, though! </p>

26

<p>Cards Against Humanity needs the right audience, though. B-) </p>

27

<p>Did I just get to see a demo of Cards Against Humanity?</p>

28

<p>Just started playing 7 Wonders, which S gave D for Christmas. He also got her Cards against Humanity. They also like Settlers of Catan, tho that takes more time and effort to play. It’s nice that there is more interaction than when they’re playing video games. </p>

29

<p>We got Bananagrams for Christmas and are going to play tonight. First time for DH and me. D says it’s a hoot.</p>

30

<p>Out family loves bananagrams…it is the fun part of scrabble without all the waiting…you each get your own scrabble “board” and there are no point counts.</p>

31

<p>One of our favorite games is Past Lives, where you travel through different ages, do different goofy things, and find out who you were in a past life at the end. It hasn’t been made in a long time (since Avalon Hill was bought by a larger company and promptly killed off) but if you see it at a used game store or somewhere - grab it!</p>

<p>Another thing I’ve learned is that different game versions may be more or less satisfying. I bought Scattergories last week for someone and it was a cheap shadow of its older self. No clicking timer and only enough cards and boards for 4 players or teams. Everything seemed small and badly made. Sometimes it’s worth poking around ebay or other game sites to find older, better editions of board games. </p>

32

<p>Slight hijack: I love board games but no one in my family or circle of friends does. Got any online games I can play in my solitary competitive state?</p>

33

<p>My H says Bananagrams is Scrabble for the anti-social. I like it much more than Scrabble.</p>

34

<p>We got Ticket to Ride as a family present and enjoyed playing it. One family member bought games for everyone, so we also got Pandemic, Dominion, Diplomacy, and Cards against Humanity. S took Dominion home with him before we tried it, Pandemic was confusing the first time we tried it, and haven’t gotten to Diplomacy yet. I don’t like long games (hate Monopoly) so Ticket to Ride is long enough for me. I have yet to win that (or Cataan!)</p>

<p>I did manage to get Pente on eBay after several tries for my D.</p>

35

<p>re #31: My D plays Ticket to Ride on-line sometimes. I googled and found this <a href=“Ticket to Ride | Days of Wonder”>Ticket to Ride | Days of Wonder; and <a href=“Ticket to Ride | Days of Wonder”>Ticket to Ride | Days of Wonder;

<p>You’ll find others who want to play. </p>

36

I’ve also become a fan of Dominion - it’s one of my kids’ excessively complicated games, but once you get the hang of it a lot of fun. It’s has lots of cards with directions that look like Magic cards, but the game play is quite different. One nice thing is that you play with random subsets of the available cards (and they keep issuing more varieties of the game) so that each game feels very different and a strategy that worked for one game won’t necessarily carry over to the next one.

37

Has Puerto Rico been mentioned yet? That is a favorite of ours and we don’t fight as much as when we play Catan!

38

If you have an iPad (or iPhone), many modern board games like Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, and Carcassonne (among others) have iOS versions. There may also be android versions as well. Not all are compatible on all devices so you may have to search around to see what works for your device, if you have one.

39

With a big group, we’ve played Smart Ass and Anything Goes. Smart Ass is a trivia game and it was amazing to hear the youngest in the group (16 yrs old) nail most of the answers. Anything goes is a crazy charades game and since the adults get into it too, we have a lot of fun. Kids love watching the adults make fools of themselves :slight_smile:

40

I took Ticket to a Ride up to see D last weekend, at her request, and left it with her since she had people to play it with.
I also learned the name of the game that some folks were playing at Christmas, since two of them had returned at the same time we did.
It sounds like it is out of print, but it is still available on boardgamegeek.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/130/iron-dragon
I didn’t play. If I am playing a new game on vacation, I want a short learning curve, thank you very much!