What is your favorite board game?
First, in defence of chess it is a great game and I personally enjoy it and spent a lot of money on a good quality board and pieces. However even if you allowed for chess as an answer, it wouldn't be my favourite and out of the "traditional" games, that honour would fall to the far deeper WeiQi (go). However, assuming that Go is also off the list and you are looking for more modern games, that is a tough call. My most played board game is probably Midnight Party by Ravensburger, partially because that is a game I can play with children or adults and there is depth enough for the adults and simplicity for the children. In terms of favourite game to play, that might be a bit more difficult. In terms of mainstream games, the honour would fall to Risk but when you open the field up a little, then Starfarers of Catan, Carcassonne or Zombies!!! would probably be the three from which I would choose. Honourable mentions should also go to Canyon, Settlers of Catan, Ave Caesar and Betrayal at House on the Hill.
What are your most favorite board games?
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What's your favorite board game?
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Poll: What is your favorite board game?
Monopoly Scrabble Puerto Rico Risk Cranium Taboo Settlers of Catan Clue Speed Scrabble Carcassonne Blokus The Game of Life Loaded Questions Apples to Apples Balderdash Pictionary Chess Chutes and Ladders Pictionary Game Beyond Balderdash Apples to Apples: Party Box Yahtzee Scattergories Wise and Otherwise Checkers Cluedo Junior Guess Who? Life Connect Four Candyland Other
What is your favourite Strategy board game?
Both board games and card games. RISK, Settlers, Life, Monopoly, Puerto Rico, 7 Wonders, PowerGrid, Dominion... Which is your favourite and why ? Which one would you recommend to your friends or someone looking to buy one?
What was your favorite board game as a child?
Of course, as a kid, you always have at least one “favourite” board game because it’s the best one you’ve experienced so far that’s not too difficult to understand and play, and that changes every year or two. But for my brother and me, that changed in roughly 1984 when we got the Milton Bradley game “Mystery Mansion.”In the game, players “explore” a house looking for a lost treasure. The house builds out before your eyes, room by room as you go through each doorway or staircase. This was a huge improvement over most of the games we had owned before that, which were one of:a. Roll the die. Move the pawn. Do the thing. (Life, Monopoly, Parcheesi, Oh What a Mountain, etc)b. Answer the trivia question. Or…c. Move the checker/chess-like pieces around an abstract board in prescribed ways (Chinese Checkers, Leverage, etc)This game was dynamic and interesting and different every time, and included some interesting choices and interesting strategy. Almost like an RPG / board game hybrid (like Dungeon! and those kinds of games).These days, far “better” Age 8+ kinds of games have been designed in terms of sheer playability and strategy, but it was good for its time, and the theme is something that could certainly benefit from a modern-day reimplementation (less die-rolling, a little less other luck, a little more strategy). And it still holds a soft spot in my heart.