Board Games

It only does 5, but Ticket to Ride has been successful with my family, and they dislike board games. I brought it for Thanksgiving last year with a stack of other stuff and convinced my mom and a couple of other people to give it a shot. Everyone had a really good time, and this year I got numerous texts making sure I would bring it. Jamaica does 6, and I found non board gamers tend to like that, I'm just personally not the biggest fan.

Side note, just got to Satan's Lantern pledge for Kingdom Death monster. I remember a couple of years ago I had found some kind of script that would play a sound when a backing level opens up. I tried to find that this time, thinking I could just have the page refreshing in the background at work and if I hear that sound and try to jump on it. Anyway, no luck finding that, but I didn't find a Chrome extension called Fastbacker that automated the whole thing. You have to tie it to your Kickstarter account, but then you just select a project and the backer level you want, and it just constantly refreshes the page every 10 seconds trying to select that reward. I'm sure it breaks Kickstarter terms of service, and it looks like you can only use it for free on two projects, and then they try to sell you credits to keep using it, but it worked for me. Took 5 days for the spot to open up, so glad I didn't try to do that the manual way.

I second tickets to ride for those that "dislike" board games, spring for the 10th anniversary edition though if you can makes for a better time. Dixit is also a top choice, and then Sushi Go.

Ticket to Ride: 10th Anniversary Edition 75 isn't bad, usually 100+ on amazon.

Yep, the 10th anniversary is what I have, the extra production value is super nice.

Yea, something in the worker placement or set collection range seems to fit the ticket best. (Forbidden Island is a good one if you want a co-op, rather than competitive, in the set collection theme)

Codenames is good though more of a party game. Pandemic would work but don't alpha game it. Maybe viticulture, would probably be pushing into too advanced but people might appreciate the theme

Onoes said:

Yep, the 10th anniversary is what I have, the extra production value is super nice.

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Do note the board is much larger so plan for the extra space needed.

Does anyone on here play Black Powder?

EDIT: Wrong thread, sorry, I just got off of a plane.

Ao- said:

I'm looking for recommendations on a very simple-to-learn game for 4-6 players. I tend to spend quite a bit of time with my in-laws on holidays, and beyond making them feel embarrassed while playing Cards Against Humanity, I'd like to play another game with them. It'll be my bother-in-law, his wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, and my wife and I playing. None of them are gamers (i.e. they may take a few explanations to understand normal concepts within the traditional game world), but all of them are smart enough to beat me once they understand the rules and the game-meta.

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some quick games that my family has surprisingly liked a lot were Coup and Love Letter, my family are not gamers at all but they really get into Coup. I think it is because they like calling each other liars.

Splendor is a pretty easy and fun game.

Speaking of which, I played Villages of Valeria yesterday which was sort of like an advanced version of Splendor. I had no idea what I was doing at first, but luckily I was able to develop those early uninformed moves into a good strategy and ran away with the game. Definitely not a beginner's game, but if you like Splendor then this feels like a natural progression.

Picked up betrayal at house on the blhablahblah can't remember the full name and alihambra. Not sure which to play first in our trio.

My wife is obsessed with Catan so got her rivals of Catan. Got decent reviews so hopefully she likes it.

Got to play the bloodborne card game last night, very fun, very brutal. Great PvPvE game.

Tried alhmabra last night. Pretty fun but people's slow turns made the game take 3 hours.

meStevo said:

When my friends and I play we always have to increase the play time estimate damn near 50% a lot of the time.

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It's mostly my brother in law. He tries all these long plays like he's some master strategist but he always loses.

Noodleface said:

It's mostly my brother in law. He tries all these long plays like he's some master strategist but he always loses.

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Every group has that guy. There is a reason some games come with an hour glass