Harry Bosch
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What is your favorite Board Game? Mine is Dominion. It's such a great game. Great to play with kids. It's an easy game to learn but tons of different strategies.
Also not a big board game person. Thinking through small logic-puzzles is what I do for 40 hours a week at work, so in my free-time I prefer my mind to be freed from that kind of thing. Books, sports, casual conversation, cooking, fitness, writing.
But if I have to play something Crokinole is a pretty good option - more of a physically-based strategy game, than cognitive. You can play it and just hang out over a coffee or beer without a lot of mental effort.
Also not a big board game person. Thinking through small logic-puzzles is what I do for 40 hours a week at work, so in my free-time I prefer my mind to be freed from that kind of thing. Books, sports, casual conversation, cooking, fitness, writing.
But if I have to play something Crokinole is a pretty good option - more of a physically-based strategy game, than cognitive. You can play it and just hang out over a coffee or beer without a lot of mental effort.
There's a nice Crokinole review at Shut Up and Sit Down: https://youtu.be/XMKzeg78peg
Not much of a board game guy, I'm afraid. My partner and I enjoy a round of Castles of Mad King Ludwig every now and then, which is a competitive architectural game where you bid on materials to slowly construct a somewhat nonsensical castle while maximizing points scored. Definitely the favorite, we do that one at least once a month or so. Even more rarely, we drag out Ex Libris, which is a similar game mechanic but centers on the creation of a fictional library through the acquisition of rare books with humorous pun-filled names, or Helios, a kingdom-building game in which the sun God must be appeased by an appropriate configuration of religious and economic achievements on a sun-baked fictional world. He really loves that one, but it annoys the hell out of me as I tend to forget the many, many rules in between games.
My mother and I have a longstanding Scrabble-related dispute, which meets a new iteration whenever I'm over for long enough. She usually wins, but not always.
When my godson is over (he's eight) we play a Star Wars themed Monopoly, no explanation needed, or Wildcraft, which is a cooperative Chutes & Ladders type game that teaches ethnobotany along the way. It's all European herbs in the original version, but I made a bunch of cards of my own, so we can pick up North American and Pacific remedies too.
I agree Dominion is an awesome game, one of my favorites. I also like Las Vegas, Dice Town, Machi Koro, Azul, Kingdom Builder, Ticket to Ride, Alhambra, and Star Realms.
I agree Dominion is an awesome game, one of my favorites. I also like Las Vegas, Dice Town, Machi Koro, Azul, Kingdom Builder, Ticket to Ride, Alhambra, and Star Realms.
What is your favorite expansion? I like Seaside and Adventure. The great thing about Dominion is that it's easy to learn (easy to teach new people) and yet their are many strategies to play and win. It's our favorite game. Ticket to Ride is fun also.
They're not particularly cerebral, but I always enjoyed the Empire Builder ("Crayon Rails") games by Mayfair.
At family gatherings we enjoy Betrayal at the House on the Hill. You are playing characters exploring an old mansion, which will turn into a horror movie at some point, but which one depends on what triggers it, which also decides which player is the 'betrayer'. My niece has Betrayal Legacy, which is a version which takes place in the same house, but different point of time from the 1700's to present day, each game having an effect on the setup of the next game.
They also tried Risk Legacy, same idea with each game affecting future games.
I agree Dominion is an awesome game, one of my favorites. I also like Las Vegas, Dice Town, Machi Koro, Azul, Kingdom Builder, Ticket to Ride, Alhambra, and Star Realms.
What is your favorite expansion? I like Seaside and Adventure. The great thing about Dominion is that it's easy to learn (easy to teach new people) and yet their are many strategies to play and win. It's our favorite game. Ticket to Ride is fun also.
My favorite is Prosperity. Yes, Seaside is great too. I also like Intrigue because it is cutthroat and has a lot of "take that". I like Hinterlands too. Star Realms is another great deck-builder you might want to try if you like Dominion. I collect a lot of high quality, designer board games. I probably have close to 200 games. I like heavy euros too, my favorite being Le Havre.