Board Games

[MudShark22]

My extended family is big on games at holidays though the apex experience was a Thanksgiving a couple years ago with ten folks playing Cards Against Humanity. People (including me) laughing so hard we could barely play a card. You know, like the pig one.

Wise and Otherwise is a fun game for a winter night as well. I'd love to play these strategy games but have no one to play these with out here in West Bumfuck.

Check out the link I posted above. These are free online versions of these book shelf strategy games. He programmed the adaptions, runs leagues, has a chat room to find opponents etc. All you do is d/l the game/program, fire it up and enter your opponents IP address.

[Vic2012]

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Loads of fun.

[Klonk]

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Loads of fun.

Do you know I don't think I ever actually played the game. We'd always just set up the contraption and play with that

[Lopez]

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Loads of fun.

Indeed. I've had several copies of it over the years. Some little piece would always break making the whole thing inoperable.

[ronmac]

Do you know I don't think I ever actually played the game. We'd always just set up the contraption and play with that

My kids were just saying they don't like the game part, only building it.

[Buddhabreath]

If you like chess I highly recommend Feudal. You set up you armies in secret (via a divider on the board) across various terrain, protect the king in the castle, align your offence and defense and remove the divider. You can move one or all of your pieces when it's your turn. In a certain sense it can be more complicated than chess since you are forced to think in terms of multiple moves ant their implications as well as setting up a new configuration with every game. Any fans?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/847/feudal

[Klonk]

My kids were just saying they don't like the game part, only building it.

Are you calling me a child?

[ronmac]

Are you calling me a child?

Are you accusing me of calling you a child?

[Klonk]

Are you accusing me of calling you a child?

Did you just accuse me of accusing you? Should we fight now?

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

If you like chess I highly recommend Feudal. You set up you armies in secret (via a divider on the board) across various terrain, protect the king in the castle, align your offence and defense and remove the divider. You can move one or all of your pieces when it's your turn. In a certain sense it can be more complicated than chess since you are forced to think in terms of multiple moves ant their implications as well as setting up a new configuration with every game. Any fans?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/847/feudal

I had that as a kid. I don't know what happened to it (and a lot of my kid stuff, nyuk nyuk). I suspect I'd enjoy it a lot more now.

[Lopez]

Should we fight now?

Them's fighting words.

[Rune Blackwings]

Do you know I don't think I ever actually played the game. We'd always just set up the contraption and play with that

i think everybody does that

[Rune Blackwings]

I remember this thing:


One of my favs:


Trying to look up Ca Balla or whatever and found this....recall playing this game:

[Klonk]

Oh shit, Jen! I LOVED Bermuda Triangle and that Haunted House game! I remember that haunted house had a bunch of traps and stuff...fun!

[ronmac]

Did you just accuse me of accusing you? Should we fight now?

[3LockBox]

I used to play Masterpiece

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Jen - I believe you were looking for this:

http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/KaBala.html

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[notallwhowander]

Jen - I believe you were looking for this:

http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/KaBala.html

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Wow, that is weird!

[Rune Blackwings]

Jen - I believe you were looking for this:

http://www.samstoybox.com/toys/KaBala.html

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That's it! I saw one at a yard sale, but the guy had priced stuff fairly high and did not put tags or stickers on anything.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

Yeah. I suspect that there was a backlash to this game - it can easily seem anti-Semetic, with the "Eye of Zohar" and all.

[Trane]

TBH, I don't play any anymore , partly because of lack of time, though I got a buddy that would like to try us on a cycling boardgame (one where you have a changing board every new play session.

I played most of the classic boardgames, including Checkers and Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit as a kid or teen...

But once at Uni, I got in more speciality boardgames as I had a buddy that was a total freak of those heavy war-games... Way too complicated for most casual player, so when he was around it was either Risk (relatively simple and generic) Diplomacy (love boardgames without dice and this one is a beauty, though like for Risk, you don't start the game with the same chances to win as the others) and Feudal (again no dice and a bit like Chess)

If you like chess I highly recommend Feudal. You set up you armies in secret (via a divider on the board) across various terrain, protect the king in the castle, align your offence and defense and remove the divider. You can move one or all of your pieces when it's your turn. In a certain sense it can be more complicated than chess since you are forced to think in terms of multiple moves ant their implications as well as setting up a new configuration with every game. Any fans?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/847/feudal

I had that as a kid. I don't know what happened to it (and a lot of my kid stuff, nyuk nyuk). I suspect I'd enjoy it a lot more now.

Only own Feudal and Risk anymore (plus Chess), but I'm not sure I'd say Feudal is for kids, though... Teens of my generation maybe

[Rune Blackwings]

Yeah. I suspect that there was a backlash to this game - it can easily seem anti-Semetic, with the "Eye of Zohar" and all.

if i ever find it again, i am going to try to nab it
I love obscure things

[Dave (in MA)]

My wife has this one.

[notallwhowander]

Dark Shadows! LOL! That's funny just on the face of it.