Board game recommendations

[Happy prose]

Hi...I just ordered Cards for Humanity for my DD and her boyfriend. They have friends over often and like to play board games, etc. She's 23, he's 27. Any ideas?

[chiver78]

all of the expansion packs that go along with the base set for CAH. trust me, they are awesome.

do they like puzzle games too? I like a tile game called Carcassonne as well. that is another that is a base set with expansion capabilities.

[kittensaver]

It's not a board game, but we are huge UNO fans (it's a card game). There's a variation of the game called "killer UNO" that is really fun to play in a large group.

[Shooby]

Settlers of Catan
Ticket to Ride
Clue - everyone seems to like that. Try to get the more deluxe edition with actual figures instead of plastic pieces

Apples to Apples is hilarious

[Shooby]

How about cards? Get some good quality poker chips.

[Deleted]

It's a two player game, but we loved to play Mr. Jack.  It's a game where you're trying to find out who the killer is. 

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21763/mr-jack

I also liked Quirkle and Blokus and Rummikub.  I need to get older son into playing these.  I miss it. 

[Happy prose]

Oct 22, 2014 13:32:09 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

Telestrations is fun, and friggin hilarious when played with Cards Against Humanity cards. Settlers of Catan is good. Abalone is probably my favorite two player game. Dominion is a great strategy game for 2-6, that plays in under 45 minutes.

Board games is a pretty broad category. What kind of board games do they like?

He already has Scattagories and Cranium, and she has at my house Upwards and Boggle. They also play a lot of 500 rummy. I think I'll try Uno.
Is Apples to Apples similar to Cards Against Humanity?

[movingforward]

Five Second Rule
Flux (card game)
Taboo
Cranium
LCR (dice game)

[kittensaver]

Also not board games, but two classic word games:

Boggle and Scrabble.

[Tiny]

My quirky friends and I like the card game Dixit - it's a Family Friendly game - but we adults are creative enough to go the double entendre route.... We also play Cards Against Humanity.

We also sometimes play Tsuro - it's a fun quick stategy board game. We're familiar with the strategies so it's become a bit of a "make alliances and screw your neighbor" kinda game - which is fun. We usually play this once or twice as a 'warm up' - it takes 15 - 20 minutes per game, and then move on to something else.



Added:  depending on their variety of Geek-iness - there's Killer Rabbits (and older card game with lots of expansion packs) and Munchkin (also with a lot of expansion packs) I'm almost always Cursed with a Chicken on my Head. 

[happyhoix]

Dominion is fun and has a lot of expansion packs, although my DS plays a lot of it and is very good and always kicks my ass when we play it.

I like Sequence.

[Chocolate Lover]

Smart "butt" as the kids call it.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Sequence and Qwerkle (I think that is how it is spelled) re both fun.

[muttleynfelix]

Pit is not a board game, but a blast with a lot of people ... probably even more fun if they are drunk.  

If they are a bunch of engineer/logic types, Ricochet Robots is fun.   My sister is a writer and hates it.  

[siralynn]

Small World
Pandemic (cooperative)
Dominion (card game but really good - and has a million expansion packs)
Seven Wonders (might need a minimum of three players)

[Bonny]

I still like Monopoly and Risk but I might have a real estate problem.

And I recently played "Chicken Leg". They are kind of like dominos. You don't have to concentrate too hard...

[tcu2003]

Ditto the suggestion for Ticket to Ride - it was on lightning deal on Amazon today and I just bought it for DH.

Phase 10 (I prefer the card version over the dice version) is also a blast.

[cktc]

Quelf and Catch Phrase are pretty easy and fun.

[chiver78]

Oct 22, 2014 14:34:06 GMT -5 Happy prose said:

Oct 22, 2014 13:32:09 GMT -5 Sum Dum Gai said:

Telestrations is fun, and friggin hilarious when played with Cards Against Humanity cards. Settlers of Catan is good. Abalone is probably my favorite two player game. Dominion is a great strategy game for 2-6, that plays in under 45 minutes.

Board games is a pretty broad category. What kind of board games do they like?

He already has Scattagories and Cranium, and she has at my house Upwards and Boggle. They also play a lot of 500 rummy. I think I'll try Uno.
Is Apples to Apples similar to Cards Against Humanity?

Apples to Apples is the kid friendly version of Cards Against Humanity.....it also came out first :-)

sent from my electronic distraction

[shanendoah]

Are we talking competitive? cooperative? team based? campaign? traditional US? Euro? 

Mot of the games below are best at 2-6 players. But many can be scaled beyond that with expansions


Popular at my house:

Dominion - competitive strategy card game, usually takes about 30 minutes at a pop, unless you've got two people who know what they're doing. We've played a complete game in less than 10 minutes.
Tsuro- competitive strategy map game. Simple enough that my 11 year old likes it. Combination of luck and skill so that C or I aren't always the ones who win. First game plays in 15-20 minutes. Future games 15 minutes or less.
ShadowRun Crossfire & PathFinder - cooperative campaign card games. SR is more popular in our home because our daughter likes it, but both are card based, missions or adventures that have to be completed using resources. (these are RPG-lite games). Your character gets better and has more skills, better stats for subsequent missions. Generally plays in about 30 minutes.
Last Night On Earth - competitive team based game. One team of zombies, one team of heros (there are almost always more hero players than zombie players). Different scenarios, so the game goals aren't the same every time. Teams are cooperative. Plays in about 45 minutes (differs based on number of players, scenarios, experience with the game, but I think 45 minutes is a good estimate)
Arkham Horror - cooperative game. You are trying to close the gates to the other dimensions before demons over run the city or the elder god takes over. This game can take forever- 90 minutes plus. 
Elder Sign - cooperative card game - play and set up are like CrossFire or PathFinder, but it's not campaign based. It is actually a spin off from Arkham Horror and takes some of the best elements from that and takes away "travel time" from getting from one place in the game setting to another. Plays in about 30 minutes.
Timeline - competitive card game. Probably too easy at 2 players, really hard at 6 players. 3-4 players is your ideal. Plays quick, teaches you some minor history, makes you realize exactly how euro centric our "history" often is. many different versions. Plays in about 15-20 minutes.
Mystery at the Abbey - competitive board game. If Clue is too easy for you, this is what you want. 60+ minutes
Dixit - competitive board/card game. Best played, in my mind, with aspiring writers. 30-45 minutes


Other games we've played only a couple of times but have liked
Snake Oil
Pandemic
Forbidden Desert
Runequest (takes forever)

That's what I've got off the top of my head, but we play a LOT of board games, even if we don't own them. That, and a lot of what we play is now dictated by an 11 y/o.
if you have a specific style of game you're looking for, let me know and I can probably come up with some good suggestions.

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Backgammon!
Cribbage
Trivial Pursuit (any version)
Yahtzee


There's a couple more good trivia/dice games - I'll post when the names come back to me.

[whoisjohngalt]

Oct 22, 2014 13:45:46 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

It's a two player game, but we loved to play Mr. Jack.  It's a game where you're trying to find out who the killer is. 

boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21763/mr-jack

I also liked Quirkle and Blokus and Rummikub.  I need to get older son into playing these.  I miss it. 

My oldest  LOOVES that game.  I've yet to understand how to play it.

Another one that he likes is Labyrinth (sp?).  It's a pretty good strategy game.

My all time favorite ones are Monopoly and Bingo.

[Deleted]

Lately our favorite tea are Word on the Street, Say Anything, and I love Dixit... Just got the expansion pack. We also own all of the CAH expansions. 

Shdows over  Camelot is a good cooperative one. 

[shanendoah]

I should add that Ticket to Ride and Small World are INFINITELY better when played on a tablet. It keeps track of all the chits for you!

I also love Puerto Rico - competitive, resource game, takes 30-45 minutes.

[steff]

Killer Bunnies 

[weltschmerz]

Chess

[ZaireinHD]

Dirty Minds (kinda adult game)
what about Clue?

[Deleted]

Cards against Humanity is definately an adult game... 

I don't sensor much in my house for very soon to be 16 year old, but no way I'd feel comfortable playing that game with him either.