Board games...

[Spikedriver]

Since the pandemic started, my daughter and I have been playing a lot more board games. Both old favorites like Monopoly, and newer ones like Horrified, Exploding Kittens, and Pandemic. I need to find some different ones. What are some of your favorites?

 

[Bacpacker]

Risk, Chess

 

[Spikedriver]

I've been trying to convince her to try Risk. Chess was a failure. She doesn't like it and I'm not a good player either.

 

[Haertig]

I always liked Pente. Where you try to get five in a row, or capture five pairs. Mine is a soft mat in a roll-up tube. I see it comes in a box rather than a tube these days. It's just little glass beads placed on a grid.

 

[Support Gunner]

An here i am thinking we are the only ones playing exploding kittens. We all so got some of the expansion packs.

 

[Haertig]

Backgammon is a good old stand-by as well.

 

[Spikedriver]

An here i am thinking we are the only ones playing exploding kittens. We all so got some of the expansion packs.

Exploding kittens is silly, but it's kind of fun...

 

[Spikedriver]

Backgammon is a good old stand-by as well.

That's one I hadn't thought of. Good call.

 

[Meerkat]

Monopoly is fun so is Squabble or Trivia. Haven't played one in about 6 years though.

 

[Haertig]

You can't win a game of tic-tac-toe if both players have half a brain (actually, only 1/4 brain or less is needed to force a tie every time).

But 3D tic-tac-toe is a totally different ballgame! I don't know if it's still made, but a little plexiglass and a drill - you could make your own.

 

[Spikedriver]

You can't win a game of tic-tac-toe if both players have half a brain (actually, only 1/4 brain or less is needed to force a tie every time).

But 3D tic-tac-toe is a totally different ballgame! I don't know if it's still made, but a little plexiglass and a drill - you could make your own.

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Yikes! I think that one is out of my league!

 

[Weedygarden]

I grew up playing Monopoly games for days.

Something to consider would also be cards. A deck of cards can fit in a backpack and provide endless possibilities. We played whist, Canasta, and Samba growing up. My grandmother's family were avid card players. I do remember we played a little gin rummy. In college we played some fun games, long forgotten.

 

[Amish Heart]

Our youngest daughter is a fan of Catan. The twins like it, too, and just invited the neighbor college girl over to play the other day and had a blast. A little too hard for little granddaughter, but she does enjoy Bingo and Apples to Apples. We have Farmopoly and Zombieopoly somewhere.

 

[zoomzoom]

I too am a fan of Risk. In our family, a game normally takes about 2 days though. With just 2 people, not sure how it will play out.

 

[zoomzoom]

Look up a game called Farkle. Fun to play with 2 or more people. Instructions are online, nothing to really buy if you have dice.

 

[Morgan101]

Set the way back machine. Does anybody remember the game of Life? Trivial Pursuit was also a favorite, and a very good one for traveling. You don't even need the board. Just take a couple boxes of cards.

It isn't a board game but Yahtzee was also a favorite, and a good one for a BOB. All you need is five dice a pencil and a sheet of paper.

 

[Curmudgeon]

Chess, Backgammon and Cribbage are some of my favorites.

Cribbage can be played without the board, just need pencil, paper and a deck of cards. 15 for 2, lol.

 

[Weedygarden]

This is a card game that was popular when I was in college.

Slap card game

"Not a game for the tired or sensitive, Slaps is a high-intensity card game best for 4 to 8 people. ... land on top of one another, or a sandwich is made (think 7, King, 7), players should slap the pile as fast as possible. The first player to slap gets the deck, and the person to collect the whole deck in the end, wins."

 

[angie_nrs]

Cornhole's our favorite board game. We play it all year long.....

We also play cribbage and euchre.

 

[Spikedriver]

@Amish Heart Catan is one I'm interested in but I thought it might not be that good for 2 players.

Looks like Risk and Backgammon have some fans here. Those will go on the list.

 

[Amish Heart]

Risk can be more fun with more than two players because then you can pick sides

 

[Neb]

Re: Risk and the Ukraine

Trying to defend the Ukraine is like trying to clear a yellow jackets nest with a fly swatter. You may win a battle or three but your rear is always getting stung.

Ben

 

[Spikedriver]

Re: Risk and the Ukraine

Trying to defend the Ukraine is like trying to clear a yellow jackets nest with a fly swatter. You may win a battle or three but your rear is always getting stung.

Ben

That kind of sounds like Pandemic. Either you spend all your turns trying to find cures for the diseases and the epidemics overwhelm you, or you try to contain the epidemics but you can't find the cures. It's very difficult. But it's fun to try...

 

[The Lazy L]

Chinese checkers

 

[Amish Heart]

I think little granddaughter likes Bingo the best because the number balls are in a round turning thing, and the winner gets a Hershey Kiss.

 

[backlash]

I was never much for board games. When we were young and broke newlyweds 30 years ago we did jigsaw puzzles. We would buy 1 on payday, put it together then trade with the neighbors.
I did play acey deucey in the Navy.
For all you landlubbers.
Acey-deucey - Wikipedia

 

[snappy1]

Anyone ever play the"ungame" back in the 90's? More of a psychological exercise than a game, but quite a challenge!

 

[Bacpacker]

I was never much for board games. When we were young and broke newlyweds 30 years ago we did jigsaw puzzles. We would buy 1 on payday, put it together then trade with the neighbors.
I did play acey deucey in the Navy.
For all you landlubbers.
Acey-deucey - Wikipedia

Wife and I play acey deucy when we go camping. Or play Skip Bo

 

[Amish Heart]

We have a Wizard of Oz 1000 piece puzzle going on right now

 

[goshengirl]

Monopoly (national park monopoly, Millennial monopoly...)
Blokus
Risk
Card games

If we were in a situation where we needed some entertainment and were tired of board games/cards, we'd read out loud to each other. We haven't done that for a few years, but we read together as a family even DS#3 was still a teenager, and DH and I read to each other now. We've all loved anything by Gary Paulsen, or anything in that genre.