Favourite ever board game?

[interjambo]

Striker League Champions was a cracking board game.

Towards the bottom of this page:

Striker

 

[Gully]

Love scrabble, played at Christmas and got my second highest score ever (a reasonable 383), gives the brain a good work out into the bargain. Other than that it has to be Cluedo, a game of cunning and deduction, not quite on a par with Scrabble but entertaining nonetheless. Risk, chess, draughts and backgammon are also pretty good fun.

Least favourite game must be Monopoly, guess its the leftie in me but I absolutely loathe it with a passion, must come from having grown up with a mad capitalist brother who treated the game like a military campaign.

 

[perseus]

Apocalypse (like Risk but better). Risk with atomic missiles.
http://www.sandman.connectfree.co.uk/gdb/index.htm?game=apoca

Has anybody got the rule book? I lent the game out and it it came back without the rules.

Have you found that some people just hate board games.?
If there is some skill I like them and Monopoly is a game that can be played if the abilities are impaired, unlike Chess.

See list of some board games, I have found.
http://www.sandman.connectfree.co.uk/gdb/index.htm

 

[Meade's Ball]

Being a Brighton liberal, i grew up playing Journey Through Europe. It was an educational game which taught me much about the fine old fairground of Vienna.
Occasionally, we stopped for a game of Chess or Scrabble.

By the way, i do not have oddly curly hair (apart from "down there") and i have no plans to become a woman.

 

[Gazwag]

I had a football game when I was a kid called "Logatcha" (sp?) which had numbered dice to work out the scores.

Those where the days, BHAFC, Bexhill Town and Sidley United all challenging at the top of Division One (it was pre 1991) and Europe.

Oh yes and Kick Off (which I had did a thread about before christmas) which use to come around the country on train trips to away games in the late 80's

 

[SK1NT]

Jumanji, you get real animals crush ur house and stuff

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Scrabble certainly has its moments - one of the proudest days of my life it was when, faced with near-certain defeat, I whipped out ZEUGMA on a triple word score. Winner.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Scotland Yard
Articulate
Taboo

 

[JJ McClure]

Being a Brighton liberal, i grew up playing Journey Through Europe. It was an educational game which taught me much about the fine old fairground of Vienna.

We had that in our household too, quality it was

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Scotland Yard

I always fancy the look of that, and the Sherlock Holmes one.

Anyone remember GRASS? Card game about dealing, came in a rough little bag - wonder if it's just as good 14 years on *sniff

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Go

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

Scrable and Trivial pursuit these days, but loved Buccaneer as a kid, all those little gems and barrels of rum.

 

[Juan Albion]

I'm not a great fan of Monopoly, unless I win, but I do have the Brighton and Hove edition, which makes it more enjoyable.

One game I did enjoy playing was called Capital Adventure, which was like making a trip around the world, combined with Triv. I only played it once, and we opted for the "Quick Version" which seemed to take about 6 hours. I have a set of my own now but have never opened it. Maybe soon...

 

[Icy Gull]

Risk and Formula One in days gone by. Current favourite Articulate , watch brothers and sisters, husbands/boyfriends and wives/girlfriends getting more and more irate with each other, great game.

Favourite non board game - Perudo

 

[pasty]

Anyone remember a board game called Wildlife ? Remember playing it as a kid. You had to go round the continents of the world collecting the different types of animals native to that continent. I always used to head down to Australia to get the duck-billed platypus.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

In order to try and run another NSC game in the future, I ordered Wembley from EBay just before Xmas which is a game I have fond memories of. Can't remember exactly how it works but you go round the board buying teams and then have an FA Cup.

The only problem is that they say they posted it just after Xmas but it hasn't arrived yet.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Striker League Champions was a cracking board game.

Towards the bottom of this page:

Striker

Sod that - I had the Striker at the top of that page! Diving goalies and everything. Press the players head to shoot.

Classic!

 

[Adams score 0]

Risk.

 

[Squiggsy]

Risk was / is brilliant.

Diplomacy also fantastic, so long as you had two days to spare, lots of dark corners for hatching treacherous schemes, and lots of food / drink / fags so you never had to leave the house.

 

[Sorrel]

A good place to search for board games is: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/.

I really enjoy Puerto Rico.