GTKY: Board Games

[Bluedaisy]

Ok, so I was so excited by seeing the pictures of other boardgame collections and hearing that there are some other board game geeks on the board that I decided we need a boardgame thread.  I so want to try Pandemic Legacy now and I would love to hear about other games you guys love.

1. About how many do you own: We have about 125

2. Favourites: We love all of the Settlers of Catan, we just got Pandemic and I love it as well. Guillotione is another favourite in our house (it's a card game so I'm not sure if that counts). 

3. Worst games you've played: I haven't actually played it, or even unwrapped it buy one year someone bought me the Glee game.

4. Strangest games you've played or owned? Linvingstone-trying to find treasure in Africa, Little Dead Riding Hood (we had to look online because the directions were so bad we couldn't figure out how to start), and Pompeii (you throw people in a "Volcano"

Feel free to add questions!

[Bluedaisy]

Jan 3, 2016 8:42:35 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

5. Favorite childhood game?

Oooh good one!

5. Favourite childhood game: 13 Dead End Drive- the first Christmas DH and I were dating he actually found me a copy on Ebay.

[billyhorrible]

Jan 3, 2016 8:57:16 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

Jan 3, 2016 8:42:35 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

5. Favorite childhood game?

Oooh good one!

5. Favourite childhood game: 13 Dead End Drive- the first Christmas DH and I were dating he actually found me a copy on Ebay.

This was a sleepover favorite of mine

[carolyngrace]

1. About 20

2. Small World (fantasy race/world building), Dominion (card based), and Pandemic (co-op. I really like working with everyone against the game!).

3. I haven't played, but DH owns several that take 5-8 hours to complete, based on world wars, the Vietnam war etc. No thank you!

4. Probably Cosmic Encounter. You take on different special powers each game and the group we play with always takes it super seriously with dramatic voices.

5. I loved card games the most and still do! Spades, hearts, euchre.

[carolyngrace]

Jan 3, 2016 10:43:50 GMT -5 michyme123 said:

Omg ok as a child, I remember it was probably 5th grade that at every sleepover me and my girlfriends would play a game that involved a phone and shopping. It's going to bug me that I don't remember the name of it! I feel like you would be playing and you would get a phone call telling you what to do on your next move or something?! Anyone??

Girl talk?? There was also dream phone or something like that!

[billyhorrible]

1. About how many do you own: More than 5, less than 10.

2. Favourites: We have mostly old school, classic games.  My all time favorite is Life.  It was like SIMS, pre-computer! 

3. Worst games you've played: Fine for me, but DH won't play Connect 4 with me anymore since I cheat.

4. Strangest games you've played or owned?A Series of Unfortunate Events.  I loved the books so much I had to have the game too. 

5. Favorite childhood game? Life has been a favorite for a long time, so that or Meet Me At the Mall.

[silv3rlining]

billyhorrible how do you cheat at connect 4?

[Bluedaisy]

silv3rlining, I was totally wondering that too!

[billyhorrible]

Jan 3, 2016 11:23:20 GMT -5 silv3rlining said:

billyhorrible how do you cheat at connect 4?

You take the other person's pieces when they aren't looking.

[musicfrk2002]

1. About how many do you own: probably around 75 or 80

2. Favorites: ones that aren't too complicated. H is the board game geek around here. Just glancing at our shelves, my favorites are dominion, galaxy trucker, and blokus.

3. Worst games you've played: monopoly. Cannot stand iy

4. Strangest games you've played or owned? There was some killer bunny game.

[Deleted]

1. About how many do you own? - Maybe 20-25

2. Favourites: For DH and I, Parchessi and Pente. With DS1 - Sorry or Battlship

3. Worst games you've played: Not sure

4. Strangest games you've played or owned? We gave DS1 Pick a Winner for Christmas last year. You know, the one where you fish boogers out of some guys nose until his brain explodes.

5. Favorite when I was a kid: Not sure. Maybe LIFE. I know I hated Operation because the noise scared the shit out of me.

[ashbash]

How many do you own? 20ish

Favorites? Scattegories, yahtzee and pictionary and because we have been talking Friends lately I do own the Friends trivia game

Worst game? Trival pursuit, Im too dumb to know half of the answers and I get so bored. Its a real snooze fest

Strangest? Im not sure....

Childhood fav? Disney yahtzee and Pretty Pretty Princess

[dogmama22]

Was mall madness the one where you had to get a pimple sometimes and they were little red stickers? We had one like that too.

[dogmama22]

How many: about 15 or so
Favorites: a family favorite on both sides is telestrations. I also like strategy games, but I haven't played many of the geeky board games. Pentago is fun. I like Scotland Yard, but DH always wins
Worst: Battle of the Sexes, Would You Rather
Strangest: I just won some sort of ink blot game at a White Elephant exchange this year
Childhood favorite: Pretty, Pretty Princess, Don't Wake Daddy. I spent hours playing Perfection

[ashbash]

Jan 3, 2016 15:15:56 GMT -5 dogmama22 said:

Was mall madness the one where you had to get a pimple sometimes and they were little red stickers? We had one like that too.

Haha loved the fake pimples!

[pghtruelove]

I love board games!!


1. About how many do you own: Probably between 25-50

2. Favourites: Ticket to Ride, Catan, Monoploy, and Cards Against Humanity

3. Worst games you've played: Not a fan of Chess, Checkers and Backgammon

4. Strangest games you've played or owned? Quelf.. It's fun but kind of strange.. Also my parents got me and wanted to play Dirty Minds one year when I was in high school which I think creeped me out from that game.

[billyhorrible]

Jan 3, 2016 15:15:56 GMT -5 dogmama22 said:

Was mall madness the one where you had to get a pimple sometimes and they were little red stickers? We had one like that too.

That was Girl Talk

[thecatsmeow]

1. About how many do you own: 15-20 plus some at my parents

2. Favorites: I'm a word nerd, so I love Scattergories, Scrabble, Boggle, Apples to Apples, Trivial Pursuit. And recently liking Ticket to Ride since DH DOES NOT like word games, and it is a good two-person game.

3. Worst games you've played: Add me to the list of Monopoly haters.

4. Strangest games you've played or owned: Nothing comes to mind.

5. Favorite childhood game: Card games were big for us growing up.

[erbear]

We only have cards against humanity (& a ton of expansions for it) and would you rather. I have several more kiddie games from my classroom (uno, candyland, scrabble jr, etc). I LOVE CAH and I miss playing it. H does not find it fun with two people though.

I loved board games growing up. Some of my favorites were trouble, rack-o, uno, mall madness, skip-bo, monopoly (but I've never finished a game), scattegories, scrabble, trivial pursuit, and this wheel of fortune game my parents had. When I was really little it was cootie and ants in the pants.

I wish h liked to play board games. I just got the biggest wave of nostalgia for playing with my parents.

[thecatsmeow]

erbear, I forgot about Cootie and Wheel of Fortune, those were favorites of ours too!

[Bluedaisy]

erbear have you played"Things in a Box"? I actually like it more than CAH. I find it is more adaptable depending on the audience.

[veggiemo]

My sister and I had Dream Phone! It worked up until a year or so ago until it broke. We legit played it even as adults!

Did anyone have Nightmare? It was "interactive" with a video tape. My cousins and I played it all the time.

My DS plays Perfection, which is an old game of mine (didn't see it mentioned but I'll admit, I only skimmed). You have to get little pieces placed correctly before a timer goes off and pops them all out of position.

[periwinkledaydreams]

carolyngrace my ex and I LOVED Small World and I never would have remembered it or thought of it again! Such a fun game!

[carolyngrace]

DH and I started Pandemic Legacy tonight... it is so much fun adding stickers to the board and opening secret envelopes as you go! It already feels like a lot of pressure, though, I can't imagine what it will be like a few more rounds from now...

[carolyngrace]

Jan 3, 2016 22:17:55 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

carolyngrace my ex and I LOVED Small World and I never would have remembered it or thought of it again! Such a fun game!

It's a good one to play with two players, also, which is rare

[billyhorrible]

Jan 3, 2016 22:14:56 GMT -5 veggiemo said:

My DS plays Perfection, which is an old game of mine (didn't see it mentioned but I'll admit, I only skimmed). You have to get little pieces placed correctly before a timer goes off and pops them all out of position.

This is a great one for young toddlers.  I think this was the first game LBB really got the hang of.

[Widget123]

1. About how many do you own: At our house only about a dozen. We play board games mostly at my parent's house. They easily have about 30-40.

2. Favourites: Ticket to Ride has been my favorite for the last few years. We have a bunch of expansion packs. I haven't had much opportunity to play games outside of family get-togethers much in recent years. I used to love games like Apples to Apples, Scrabble, Scattergories, Rummykub, etc.

3. Worst games you've played? My parents own some religious themed board games. I think you need to have a certain kind of group of participants to pull that off.

4. Strangest games you've played or owned? Not sure off the top of my head.

5. Favorite childhood game? I loved the oldies PP mentioned like Mall Madness, etc.