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Post by Marv on Jul 12, 2019 22:20:06 GMT
I occasionally play some...I recently played Betrayal Legacy.
Betrayal at the House on the Hill is a game that sees characters exploring an old mansion uncovering new room tiles as they go and drawing Event cards that constitute interactions with ghosts and stuff, collecting Items like weapons and beneficial artifacts and uncovering Omens. The Omens wind up starting the part of the game called ‘the haunt’ where the big bad shows up and/or reveals themselves. It’s somewhat randomly chosen from about 100 different scenarios in order to keep things different in every gameplay. Most times a player winds up becoming a traitor and begins controlling monsters for some specific endgame usually involving killing the other players.
Betrayal Legacy takes this idea but each game carries over and you control a member of one of five families whose members come to this house every 30 years or so. The events of the previous game are canon and any alterations to the house (secret doors, traps, obstructions,etc) remain for all future games as well as family heirlooms that can provide added benefits when in specific hands.
I played thru about 4 separate generation of my particular family (Clawhammers) and had a lot of fun.
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 12, 2019 22:30:09 GMT
I liked Clue when I was a kid. And our family always broke out the Monopoly board game for New Year's Eve, Dick Clark, a nutted cheese ball and 7-Up spiked with a tablespoon of rum. That was cool. But they should have called that game Monotonous, instead. It does not really ever end. But it was traditional.
I like Apples and Apples and I like stuff like Scattergories. Also, Trivial Pursuit is fun, the Silver/Hollywood edition, especially. Naturally.
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Post by Sulla on Jul 12, 2019 23:06:07 GMT
I've previously posted Caesar at Alesia. This is the one I've played the most. It took a long time to fully learn, but it's fun. 
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 12:56:20 GMT
I like Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Ludo, Monopoly, Guess Who and Mouse Trap and I am undefeated at Chess and I don't know how I got so good at it 'cause I don't play it that often and I think it might have had to do with my Uncle always cheating when my cousin and I would play against him when I was younger and he would say the pieces could do things they couldn't so I got better and better every time I defeated him. 
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Post by Jokers_Wilde on Jul 18, 2019 13:14:09 GMT
I liked Clue when I was a kid.
Awesome game! In fact, there was a promotion from General Mills, where one would get a CD-ROM of a game where one could install it on a computer. I collected:
Monopoly Junior Boggle Yahtzee Clue
Back in the day, I don't think we were playing it right. I got the CD-ROM, and I thought...I'll teach myself how to play Clue. After going thru it for a few minutes, I decided to get into a full game. I had it on 6 players, so it would be a little bit easier. After about half an hour of suggestions, I thought....I think I've got the solution!
Of course, when one makes an accusation, if they are wrong, the game is over.
I can't remember who did it, where and with what, but I was right! I just remember it saying:
You have made a correct accusation. When I saw/heard that, I belted out a big "YES!!!!!!"
Joker's Wilde
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 18, 2019 14:58:43 GMT
Risk was always my favourite, and the one that I played most often.
There was another one that I liked a lot but I can’t remember the name. It was a game for two people. Each player had an army of pieces of different values (military grades from soldier to General). You arranged them whichever way you wanted in your territory, with their faces turned to you (so your opponent couldn’t see what they were), and then you advanced them into enemy territory with the purpose of capturing the opponent’s flag. When one of your pieces was directly in front of one of the enemy’s, you would attack it and the highest-ranked one would win out.
My brother and I also had a war strategy game based on WW I that we must have gotten as a present at some point. Maybe we asked for it because we liked Risk and thought it would be similar, but it wasn’t. It was a very complicated game that we never learned how to play properly. Every now and then for a few years we would break it out and try to figure out how to play it, only to give up, put it back in the box and put the box back in the closet. It is probably still there in my mother’s home.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jul 18, 2019 16:24:29 GMT
Some of my faves:
Lie, Cheat and Steal
Risk
Stratego
Life
Chess
Straight Poker
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Post by Sulla on Jul 18, 2019 20:19:40 GMT
Risk was always my favourite, and the one that I played most often.
There was another one that I liked a lot but I can’t remember the name. It was a game for two people. Each player had an army of pieces of different values (military grades from soldier to General). You arranged them whichever way you wanted in your territory, with their faces turned to you (so your opponent couldn’t see what they were), and then you advanced them into enemy territory with the purpose of capturing the opponent’s flag. When one of your pieces was directly in front of one of the enemy’s, you would attack it and the highest-ranked one would win out.
My brother and I also had a war strategy game based on WW I that we must have gotten as a present at some point. Maybe we asked for it because we liked Risk and thought it would be similar, but it wasn’t. It was a very complicated game that we never learned how to play properly. Every now and then for a few years we would break it out and try to figure out how to play it, only to give up, put it back in the box and put the box back in the closet. It is probably still there in my mother’s home.
The first paragraph describes Stratego.
Not sure about the WWI game. I'd guess Diplomacy because it does look a bit like Risk with geographical areas of control and little wooden blocks representing armies.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jul 18, 2019 20:45:48 GMT
Chess
Risk
Monopoly
I know there are 'game bars' or whatever around Toronto, alas I don't think are much into public clubs. If there were places one could just casually sign up to meet enough players/strangers, that'd be fine. I can promise you I couldn't count on one hand enough friends of mine who'd be interested.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jul 18, 2019 20:59:29 GMT
Risk was always my favourite, and the one that I played most often.
There was another one that I liked a lot but I can’t remember the name. It was a game for two people. Each player had an army of pieces of different values (military grades from soldier to General). You arranged them whichever way you wanted in your territory, with their faces turned to you (so your opponent couldn’t see what they were), and then you advanced them into enemy territory with the purpose of capturing the opponent’s flag. When one of your pieces was directly in front of one of the enemy’s, you would attack it and the highest-ranked one would win out.
My brother and I also had a war strategy game based on WW I that we must have gotten as a present at some point. Maybe we asked for it because we liked Risk and thought it would be similar, but it wasn’t. It was a very complicated game that we never learned how to play properly. Every now and then for a few years we would break it out and try to figure out how to play it, only to give up, put it back in the box and put the box back in the closet. It is probably still there in my mother’s home.
The first paragraph describes Stratego.
Not sure about the WWI game. I'd guess Diplomacy because it does look a bit like Risk with geographical areas of control and little wooden blocks representing armies.
I just checked on Wikipedia and you are right on both counts.
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Post by Sulla on Jul 18, 2019 21:24:09 GMT
The first paragraph describes Stratego.
Not sure about the WWI game. I'd guess Diplomacy because it does look a bit like Risk with geographical areas of control and little wooden blocks representing armies.
I just checked on Wikipedia and you are right on both counts.
The first time I saw Diplomacy was in high school when five classmates met each day after school to submit their move. Because it doesn't use dice, at first I didn't understand it, either. Since it involves making and breaking alliances, it works best with multiple players. It's much more Machiavellian than most wargames.
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Post by vegalyra on Jul 18, 2019 21:45:24 GMT
I just checked on Wikipedia and you are right on both counts.
The first time I saw Diplomacy was in high school when five classmates met each day after school to submit their move. Because it doesn't use dice, at first I didn't understand it, either. Since it involves making and breaking alliances, it works best with multiple players. It's much more Machiavellian than most wargames.
Some friends and I tried to play this over a course of a few days and involved us all staying at the same house over a period of many hours (sort of a marathon session). Needless to say we didn't finish it but it got pretty interesting. Typical alliances involving England/Russia and Germany/Austria. Interestingly though, France, Turkey, and Austria formed an alliance to take out Italy and it worked. But then the alliance collapsed and Austria suddenly became a victim and had no friends (Germany even abandoned her). It was funny having various factions meeting in various rooms of the house making deals. We had to set time constraints on deals though, but even then there were no clear winners even by the time we were about to finish (outside of poor Italy getting knocked out of the game). I haven't played any board games in quite some time (outside of kid games), but the last one that was pretty fun that I played with my brother was "War at Sea" the original version. I picked it up at a garage sale awhile back. Lots of fun actually and not too hard to learn. 
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Post by rogerthat on Jul 18, 2019 21:47:50 GMT
Strip Chutes and Ladders. Don't Ask...
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Post by poelzig on Jul 18, 2019 21:51:16 GMT
Risk was always my favourite, and the one that I played most often.
There was another one that I liked a lot but I can’t remember the name. It was a game for two people. Each player had an army of pieces of different values (military grades from soldier to General). You arranged them whichever way you wanted in your territory, with their faces turned to you (so your opponent couldn’t see what they were), and then you advanced them into enemy territory with the purpose of capturing the opponent’s flag. When one of your pieces was directly in front of one of the enemy’s, you would attack it and the highest-ranked one would win out.
My brother and I also had a war strategy game based on WW I that we must have gotten as a present at some point. Maybe we asked for it because we liked Risk and thought it would be similar, but it wasn’t. It was a very complicated game that we never learned how to play properly. Every now and then for a few years we would break it out and try to figure out how to play it, only to give up, put it back in the box and put the box back in the closet. It is probably still there in my mother’s home.
The first game you describe is Stratego. It's funny to see how different the game pieces and commercial looks now. Any millennial that needs the game to have robots in it to be interested would never play a board game anyway. I doubt millennials even understand the words board and game in conjunction anyway.
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Post by Sulla on Jul 18, 2019 21:59:20 GMT
The first time I saw Diplomacy was in high school when five classmates met each day after school to submit their move. Because it doesn't use dice, at first I didn't understand it, either. Since it involves making and breaking alliances, it works best with multiple players. It's much more Machiavellian than most wargames.
Some friends and I tried to play this over a course of a few days and involved us all staying at the same house over a period of many hours (sort of a marathon session). Needless to say we didn't finish it but it got pretty interesting. Typical alliances involving England/Russia and Germany/Austria. Interestingly though, France, Turkey, and Austria formed an alliance to take out Italy and it worked. But then the alliance collapsed and Austria suddenly became a victim and had no friends (Germany even abandoned her). It was funny having various factions meeting in various rooms of the house making deals. We had to set time constraints on deals though, but even then there were no clear winners even by the time we were about to finish (outside of poor Italy getting knocked out of the game). I haven't played any board games in quite some time (outside of kid games), but the last one that was pretty fun that I played with my brother was "War at Sea" the original version. I picked it up at a garage sale awhile back. Lots of fun actually and not too hard to learn. Haha! I like the way you met in different rooms. It's easier to lie when others aren't listening.
I once tried to play War At Sea with my dad. He had never played any of these games and it was too much info for him to absorb in one session. I also like its more complex sister game, Victory In The Pacific. These games are where I learned the names of lots of ships.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 19, 2019 0:20:45 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Jul 19, 2019 0:37:16 GMT
Ha Yahtzee.
I remember the commercials.
I played
Monopoly
Life
Risk (I remember the commercials)
Mouse Trap
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Post by Marv on Jul 19, 2019 0:53:17 GMT
I’ve turned most normal board games into drinking ganes at camps when it’s raining... my fave was chutes and ladders.
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Post by QueenB on Jul 19, 2019 3:59:14 GMT
Though I haven't played in quite some time, Monopoly, Clue and Checkers are my faves.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Jul 19, 2019 22:01:31 GMT
I’ve turned most normal board games into drinking ganes at camps when it’s raining... my fave was chutes and ladders. Same here!  Drunk Monopoly (Free Parking meant CHUG) and Drunk Happy Days Board Game (Sit on it Fonzie ...and CHUG).
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