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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

As I look at my shelves I noticed my version of trivial pursuit and a couple of versions of scrabble, both sadly unused for long while

Made me wonder if others still played suck games or is it all computer games or role playing games these days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have "Escape from Colditz"

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"We have "Escape from Colditz""

That brings back memories

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By *atricia ParnelWoman
over a year ago

In a town full of colours

Monopoly and chess are a favourite of mine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Othello

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have to be British or I don't play

haha

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By *ames5169Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"We have "Escape from Colditz""

Classic game but nobody ever wanted to be the Germans !!

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By *ames5169Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

Game of life occasionally makes an appearance!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Monopoly and chess are a favourite of mine"

We have a chess board.

Bought after watching "Queens Gambit"

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Monopoly and chess are a favourite of mine

We have a chess board.

Bought after watching "Queens Gambit""

Have one was given as present but never opened as not played since in uni

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

Yeah we have games nights quite often. Usually involves alcohol and cheese and biscuits. I love a board game.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like Scrabble with my own rules

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

I love playing scrabble x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"As I look at my shelves I noticed my version of trivial pursuit and a couple of versions of scrabble, both sadly unused for long while

Made me wonder if others still played suck games or is it all computer games or role playing games these days "

There is a real big boardgaming movement going on. There has been for some time now. Things have been stepping away from those seen as the traditional staple games, and there are some really good ones brought out every year. Good games to start with are settlers of catan, ticket to ride, and Dixit. Some people say Carcassonne, but I am not a fan of that. My advice is to go to your nearest travelling man and ask them to suggest some games for people wanting to get into boardgaming, and they'll pull a few suggestions of their own out. Be warned though, if the bug bites you, it can become an expensive but rewarding hobby

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Just googled to see if I could get hold of Hero Quest. Takes me back to geeking out at lunch time at school.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just googled to see if I could get hold of Hero Quest. Takes me back to geeking out at lunch time at school. "

They recently released it, with additional characters and quests

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By *uffsandCropsCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

I'm with the games night brigade.

We had some amazing nights during lockdown with the family.

Monopoly, cards, trivial pursuit and Uno

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Has anyone heard of dobble

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

"Just googled to see if I could get hold of Hero Quest. Takes me back to geeking out at lunch time at school.

They recently released it, with additional characters and quests"

Yeah I saw £75 notes. Probably will give it a miss nobody would play it with me. Mates would be mortified

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By *HaRiFMan
over a year ago

Beyond the shadows.

I play chess

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

They are just that board games! Bored!

I gave them all away x

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By *BootyfulDayWoman
over a year ago

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I love board game nights hehe I still play, not regularly but I still find them fun

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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago

Burnleyish (She/They)

"Has anyone heard of dobble "

Love dobble... Although it gets ver intense in our house it's not a game you can play say sedately at the table...

As has been mentioned, ticket to ride and settlers are the best games to start off with. I also love epic spell wars of the battle wizards.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Has anyone heard of dobble

Love dobble... Although it gets ver intense in our house it's not a game you can play say sedately at the table...

As has been mentioned, ticket to ride and settlers are the best games to start off with. I also love epic spell wars of the battle wizards. "

For such a simple game dobble does get rather intense as you say

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Has anyone heard of dobble

Love dobble... Although it gets ver intense in our house it's not a game you can play say sedately at the table...

As has been mentioned, ticket to ride and settlers are the best games to start off with. I also love epic spell wars of the battle wizards. "

I can't talk about dobble, but munchkin has been known to make some of my friends fall out

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By *ack and MiriCouple
over a year ago

Portsmouth

Love table top games some of our favourites are

Betrayal at the house on the hill,

Lord's of Waterdeep,

Dungeon Mayhem,

Ticket to ride,

Castle panic,

Flux,

And Forbidden Island to name a few

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Love table top games some of our favourites are

Betrayal at the house on the hill,

Lord's of Waterdeep,

Dungeon Mayhem,

Ticket to ride,

Castle panic,

Flux,

And Forbidden Island to name a few"

Never played but seen a few at a local boardgame munch

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By *ewbie AnalystMan
over a year ago

Little Sandhurst

Funnily enough, the most popular board game in our house at the moment is "Pandemic", it's a really good collaborative game, everyone wins or nobody does, you have to work together, really good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Carcasonne.

Love it.

Lots

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

I've got a lot - current favourite probably Wingspan. Fun and pretty!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Funnily enough, the most popular board game in our house at the moment is "Pandemic", it's a really good collaborative game, everyone wins or nobody does, you have to work together, really good."

It was the best selling game of 2020, oddly

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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago

Burnleyish (She/They)

" I can't talk about dobble, but munchkin has been known to make some of my friends fall out"

Argh munchkin how could I forget about that!

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Love Boggle.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Game of life occasionally makes an appearance!!"

Omg that’s a good one! I played that a couple months ago

I love taboo x

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By *l6789Man
over a year ago

croydon

Grew up playing scrabble with my gran and still have a board. Monopoly gets played occasionally too but other the kids games it’s all online gaming now for me

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By *reat me rightWoman
over a year ago

Rotherham

I have a Small so

Monopoly

Totopoly

Game of life

Cluedo

Have made a come back

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

Operation always used to be fun at Xmas after several bottles of wine.

Scrabble is more fun when you get bonus points for swear words.

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By *yronMan
over a year ago

grangemouth

Strip Trivial Pursuit can be fun....

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I plan scrabble

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

Pandemic is a superb game.

Terraforming Mars is another.

Twilight Struggle got a dusting down recently as it captures the Cold War very well.

Settler of Catan and the expansions is also very good and easy to get in to.

Terra Mystica is fun.

Arkham Horror is also recommended.

Puerto Rico is good, but not for beginners or casual play.

Power Grid is also enjoyable. I played it in Essen when it was first released and went on to win the Spiel des Jahres award. Spiel, or the Essen Game Fair is 4 days of serious gaming. A bit like Gencon, but for boardames mostly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have a Small so

Monopoly

Totopoly

Game of life

Cluedo

Have made a come back"

Good games for kids are Jamaica (galleon racing game with ship duels and stuff), and catan junior (land management/trading game simplified from settlers of catan). Both are minimum two players, which is a rarity for a lot of games these days, as there are a lot of minimum three player games now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Pandemic is a superb game.

Terraforming Mars is another.

Twilight Struggle got a dusting down recently as it captures the Cold War very well.

Settler of Catan and the expansions is also very good and easy to get in to.

Terra Mystica is fun.

Arkham Horror is also recommended.

Puerto Rico is good, but not for beginners or casual play.

Twilight?

We started a very similar, maybe even the same one, where your characters had to escape back to UK from behind the "Soviet Bloc"

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold

We have Risk, but given up on other traditional board games.

We've moved on to things like Exploding Kittens

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We have Risk, but given up on other traditional board games.

We've moved on to things like Exploding Kittens

Download it on play store

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We have Risk, but given up on other traditional board games.

We've moved on to things like Exploding Kittens

Give bears Vs babies a go. You might enjoy that.

I advise getting the nsfw add on packs for both

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Sometimes play Monopoly at family gatherings.

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

Twilight?

We started a very similar, maybe even the same one, where your characters had to escape back to UK from behind the "Soviet Bloc""

Doesn't sound like Twilight Struggle, I'm afraid. Though I am intrigued to know what is is !

Twilight Struggle is a fun game that captures the essence of the Cold War. It's also very educational.

Twilight Struggle's Event cards add detail and flavour to the game. They cover a vast array of historical happenings, from the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1948 and 1967, to Vietnam and the U.S. peace movement, to the Cuban Missile Crisis and other such incidents that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. Subsystems capture the prestige-laden Space Race as well as nuclear tensions, with the possibility of game-ending nuclear war.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After much brain wracking last night.

The best I could come up with was Twilight 2000 Escape from Krakow.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It was meant to be a team of NATO troops who sort of just bumped into each other

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By *oubleswing2019Man
over a year ago

Colchester

"It was meant to be a team of NATO troops who sort of just bumped into each other"

Twilight 2000 Escape from Krakow ?

The Free City of Krakow is an adventure module for Twilight: 2000, which is a pen and paper RPG.

Did you have character sheets ? If so, then you were playing an RPG.

Sounds excellent by the way !

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple

We play as a family.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It was meant to be a team of NATO troops who sort of just bumped into each other

Twilight 2000 Escape from Krakow ?

The Free City of Krakow is an adventure module for Twilight: 2000, which is a pen and paper RPG.

Did you have character sheets ? If so, then you were playing an RPG.

Sounds excellent by the way !"

Yeah, think we did. We had a brief of the guy running it, an upturned Subbeteo pitch with model railway trees, buildings etc.

Cotton wool to simulate smoke grenades. He was proper into it all.

Looking back we should gave as much effort in it too

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By *isfits behaving badlyCouple
over a year ago

Coventry

We love board games, Mrs Misfit has quite a collection (including the game Misfits). Charity shops are a great source of hours of reasonable priced amusement.

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold

"We have Risk, but given up on other traditional board games.

We've moved on to things like Exploding Kittens

Give bears Vs babies a go. You might enjoy that.

I advise getting the nsfw add on packs for both"

yes, we've got B vs B too. But as my son is only 13, I'll give the NSFW version a miss for a couple of years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We have Risk, but given up on other traditional board games.

We've moved on to things like Exploding Kittens

Give bears Vs babies a go. You might enjoy that.

I advise getting the nsfw add on packs for both

yes, we've got B vs B too. But as my son is only 13, I'll give the NSFW version a miss for a couple of years

At the very least, you can just take them back out. It is an arduous task but I guess it's a giggle with your adult mates when you can add a dildo arm as a weapon.

Incidentally, my friend gave me the "bear from San Francisco" card to start with, even though you're meant to deal them randomly. I feel like they know my sexuality and gender without my discussing it. That is ok though, because I do actually like them a lot, and I guess I might ride the right side if non-binary for them to be attracted back

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