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Games meme
What board games or card games in your collection do you play the most, and why?
What games do you most want to get, and why?
Here's mine:
Our most played game is Settlers of Catan. It's visualy attractive, it never takes more than around an hour, the skill level is high enough to be interesting, but not so high that you can't play it when feeling tired. It plays well with 2-4 players (though we use an optional rule relating to the robber when playing with two in order to avoid it sitting on one tile for half the game)
Second most played is Majhongg. However, this has had to stay unplayed while Henry is at university as it needs 3-4 players. It's got enough math that you can play it very tactically if you want, or you can play it on feel and still do reasonably well. The pieces are nice and chunky and never get damaged or lost.
Elfenland is probably in at number three, though Scrabble has been making a few gains recently. Elfenland is a 'travelling salesman problem' game and the beautiful board and playing pieces make a delight out of what is really a very abstract game.
GAmes I'd like to have include Ursuppe. Henry played this at a convention and has been raving about it ever since. You play small organisms in the primeval soup and feed on one anther and excrete substances that may also be food for other players. I don't know much about the tactics, merely that it's supposed to play very well.
If a close friend of ours didn't bring 'Ra' round fairly often, I'd want my own copy. It's basically a bidding game and there's some nifty mechanics to ensure that the player buying the worst items often ends up with better money tokens the next round. The real fun is in deciding how long to hold on before calling for a bidding round as extra items keep being added, but sometimes there's a real nasty gets added to the line that may make earlier ones worthless.
Ticket to Ride - this one was mentioned at the games panel at Worldcon - any game that has won 'Spiel des Jahres' is usually worth looking at.
What would your choices be?
What games do you most want to get, and why?
Here's mine:
Our most played game is Settlers of Catan. It's visualy attractive, it never takes more than around an hour, the skill level is high enough to be interesting, but not so high that you can't play it when feeling tired. It plays well with 2-4 players (though we use an optional rule relating to the robber when playing with two in order to avoid it sitting on one tile for half the game)
Second most played is Majhongg. However, this has had to stay unplayed while Henry is at university as it needs 3-4 players. It's got enough math that you can play it very tactically if you want, or you can play it on feel and still do reasonably well. The pieces are nice and chunky and never get damaged or lost.
Elfenland is probably in at number three, though Scrabble has been making a few gains recently. Elfenland is a 'travelling salesman problem' game and the beautiful board and playing pieces make a delight out of what is really a very abstract game.
GAmes I'd like to have include Ursuppe. Henry played this at a convention and has been raving about it ever since. You play small organisms in the primeval soup and feed on one anther and excrete substances that may also be food for other players. I don't know much about the tactics, merely that it's supposed to play very well.
If a close friend of ours didn't bring 'Ra' round fairly often, I'd want my own copy. It's basically a bidding game and there's some nifty mechanics to ensure that the player buying the worst items often ends up with better money tokens the next round. The real fun is in deciding how long to hold on before calling for a bidding round as extra items keep being added, but sometimes there's a real nasty gets added to the line that may make earlier ones worthless.
Ticket to Ride - this one was mentioned at the games panel at Worldcon - any game that has won 'Spiel des Jahres' is usually worth looking at.
What would your choices be?