What's your favorite board game?

[NJmaverick]

Do you usually win?

[mzteris]

1. Pandemic -

it's a "cooperative play game". You either all win, or you all lose - and the world dies.

It's GREAT!

[NJmaverick]

20. What's the goal? How is it played?

[mzteris]

42. To save the world.

It's kinda difficult explain really. Here's a blurb:

"You are specialists at the CDC/Atlanta where you watch several virulent diseases break out simultaneously all over the world. The team mission is to prevent a world-wide pandemic outbreak, treating hotspots while researching cures for each of the four plagues before they get out of hand.

Players must plan their strategy to mesh their specialist's strengths before the diseases overwhelm the world. For example, the Operations Specialist can build research stations, which are needed to find cures for the diseases. The Scientist needs only 4 cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal 5. But the diseases are breaking out fast and time is running out: the team must try to stem the tide of infection in diseased areas while developing cures. If disease spreads uncontrolled, the players all lose. If they can cure all four diseases, they win.

The board shows earth with some big population centres. On each turn a player can use four actions to travel, cure, discover and build. Cards are used for this but the deck also contains Epidemics..."

It's really fun.

[livetohike]

2. Cranium

My sister and I play as a team vs my husband and b-i-l and we always win :-).

[RadicalGeek]

3. I have a few

I'm lousy at most of them, and I shouldn't be.

Chess-I think this is a case of I don't know how to move the pieces
Scrabble-Get bad tiles
Checkers-Don't know why
Connect 4- Lose track of opponents spaces

[AwakeAtLast]

4. I always liked Life

I used to like playing Tripoley with one of my cousins.

Oh! And Trouble because of the popping die. :D

[Forkboy]

5. San Juan, and I hardly ever win.

[NJmaverick]

22. That's some intense board play

if I am not mistaken

[Forkboy]

37. It's a lot of fun. There are other variants of the game as well.

St. Petersburg and Puerto Rico are basically the same game, and they're just as good.

Here's a java based PC version of San Juan that's pretty faithful to the board game, with adjustable A.I. that can be pretty tough.

http://www.compoundeye.net/jsanjuan/index.html

[NNadir]

6. Chess.

My little boy, ten, beat me recently.

I was very, very, very, very, very proud of him.

[NJmaverick]

23. I bet you were

congrats

[newcriminal]

43. My favorite too. I have been playing since I was 4.

[NJmaverick]

48. Impressive, that's a pretty young age to understand that game

:hi:

[NNadir]

49. He's been playing since he was 8.

He's very, very, very, very good.

His uncle, from whom we are estranged, got through high school by charming his high school teacher by playing continuously.

His teacher was the Australian National Chess Champion.

I never beat my brother at chess, and I learned a lot of chess by losing to my brother.

Although I will never speak to him again, the guy was a fabulous chess player, and if there are any genes I would like my boy to share with his uncle, chess playing would be the one's in question.

[NJmaverick]

50. Sounds like you have quite a talented family

It must be funny for you. You are probably an outstanding player yourself, but with your family you don't get to enjoy that fact.

[newcriminal]

54. My father was a bit of a douche bag.

He made me and my two other sisters study at least an hour a night from when we turned 4 till about junior high were of course we were in the chess club so we at least got to play with other people instead of studying from a book. I'm actually a professional since I won money in a few tournaments, but I'm no Bobby Fischer that's for sure.

[handmade34]

7. scrabble

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. backgammon or acey-duecy.

[madinmaryland]

9. You play acey-duecy also? I was playing that this weekend

with my wife. She kicked my ass for the first time in nearly fifteen years!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. I thought you were a girl......

:D

[madinmaryland]

18. D'oh!

CreekDog strikes again!!

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

19. ~

:hi:

[Moondog]

33. OK, I had to Google acey-duecy to find out what it was.

And I own a backgammon set. Somewhere. Haven't played for years and years. Well, anyway, thanks for the lesson.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

35. it is a fun game

:hi:

I like chess, too....I don't play it that much. I mainly kibitz over my brother and his friend's games.

[Moondog]

38. There are decent computer emulations for both.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

39. for acey-duecy? I have played online backgammon and my brother

plays online chess but I have not seen online acey-duecy...then again I have never searched it (duh)

[Moondog]

40. Dunno about acey-duecy.

Never heard of it until a few minutes ago.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

41. I guess it is possible, never thought about it. If they can do backgammon

they should be able to set up acey-duecy....

[Chan790]

10. It's Trivial Pursuit...

and I haven't lost in almost 20 years going back to when I was 11...and no, those adults were not pulling punches because they were playing a child. I have an innate ability to be able to recall every written page I've ever read nearly-verbatim. Seems neat, but virtually useless and the trade-off is that I cannot remember much of anything I'm told verbally for more than a few minutes.

[NJmaverick]

25. You need to hit the game show circuti

[vadawg]

12. naked twister, with lots of alcohol and a couple of strippers :)

or if my wife reads this then its chess :)

[NJmaverick]

26. rubbing alcohol?

[Louisiana1976]

13. Scrabble

[enigmatic]

14. Strat-O-Matic Baseball

[Forkboy]

15. God that was fun. The hockey was awesome too.

[enigmatic]

16. they still are!

I still have the 1975 seasons of baseball, basketball, and the 1977 NHL season. I'll pull them out every so often and play a few games; my sports geek childhood memories always call me back..

[Forkboy]

17. I'm amazed they haven't done PC versions.

Or maybe they have and I'm just clueless. That's always a safe assumption. :)

[madinmaryland]

24. Did you ever play APBA baseball? I had the 74, 77, and 79 seasons.

I don't have the cards except for a couple of teams, though I do have the game itself.

[JonLP24]

21. Risk

I can't say if I usually win because I rarely played. It's impossible for me to find 2-3 people willing to play a whole game. There was a time I did win because I spent the down time studying the board and plotting strategy for hours.

Edit-I like Monopoly-Denver Edition. I can buy Coors Field and Mile High Stadium in place of Boardwalk and the other high value place.

[NJmaverick]

27. Risk is definately one of the more interesting and fun games

do you know there are computer versions?

[JonLP24]

28. I'm pretty sure I lack the system requirements

I got one of these...

[NJmaverick]

29. lol! Did you steal that thing from a muesem?

:evilgrin:

[JonLP24]

30. lol It's real good for internet

Sometimes certain keys die. For a while it was the p and the 9. For the past couple days I have to really pound on the 'j'(pounded for that to show) for it show. Which is somewhat of a problem when I go to log in because of the first letter of my username. But thankfully not many words that I normally use have a 'j' in them.

[pokerfan]

44. I didn't discover Risk until college

I guess I grew up in a Monopoly neighborhood. We would tweak the rules of Monopoly to where the games could possibly last forever. We never found out because a fight would inevitably break out, everyone would go home and we wouldn't talk for days.

[MissHoneychurch]

31. Scrabble

I win and lose both. When we play it is less about winning but putting together beautiful words.

[Deep13]

32. You mean favorite bored game? nt

[Eurobabe]

34. Sorry!

Loved it since I was a wee one. ;)

[Arugula Latte]

36. Good old Scrabble.

And I see I am not alone.

[cemaphonic]

45. Carcassone is a good one.

Good mix of strategy and luck, and fairly easy to learn. And the final board is a unique work of art every time. I've always liked Cosmic Encounter and Illuminati too, but those are more hardcore and harder to get games going.

[LanternWaste]

46. Advanced Squad Leader

I'm a wee bit of a grognard, so I'm compelled to admit my all time favorite board game is the Avalon Hill classic Advanced Squad Leader. Win about 50/50.

[NJmaverick]

47. I envy you as those things are great fun

unfortunately I can't find anyone that shares my interest.

[Burma Jones]

51. Trivial Pursuit

I've only lost once........

[annabanana]

52. Mille Borne!!!

Best game EVAH!

[derby378]

53. I still have my grandmother's Mille Bornes deck

Haven't played it in years, but it's a great game.

[annabanana]

55. I had put our deck away... I brought it back out when the kids

were old enough, afraid that I'd forget how it goes... But it was like riding a bike..

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