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Just wondering what (or if) people enjoy playing: board games, card games, whatever.

Chess and poker are two personal favourite "classics" (I prefer Draw Poker but lately I've begun to be seduced by Texas Hold 'em). Mah-Jongg (Chinese rules -- the "American rules" version is, IMO, a game for idiots) is also a good way to pass an evening.

On the commercial board game front, let's see, on the shelf in front of me some favourites are Britannia (good but overlong now that I seldom have time to pull an all-night session); Fury of Dracula (also good, if a bit odd in that it's one against all the rest); Warlock (very old Games Workshop card game, which has its charms); and Supremacy (like a very superior version of Risk with nuclear weapons, a very cool and easy system of handling an international resources market and billion $ notes).

Pokes rules

chess, checkers, and bourre (it's a cajun card game)

I hate games with too many rules and such, except for poker.

Although I really enjoy B.S., it really shows you what your friends look like when they're lying.

Star Fleet Battles
Axis and Allies

I hate games with too many rules and such, except for poker.

Although I really enjoy B.S., it really shows you what your friends look like when they're lying.
Ahh BS its a great game

Chess, blackjack, risk, axis and allies, solitare

i'd have to say gin rummy, although i do enjoy poker as well

i dont really know that many board games...

I hate games with too many rules and such, except for poker.

I find that too, certainly as I get older. I used to play stuff like Star Fleet Battles but now i really can't hack all the accountancy and mastering all the rules. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a corporate lawyer and get paid for it. :)

That said, I do love Mah-Jongg, even though it has all these amazingly petty rules that are hardly ever needed: "If a player goes Mah-Jongg with a spare tile, and that tile is the Five of Circles, this is called 'Gathering Plum-Blossom on the Roof' and scores the limit," and so on. I've never, in nearly 20 years of playing, seen it happen, but it has an esoteric charm which is hard to resist.

I think checkers is pointless since there already is chess which is more sophisticated.

I think checkers is pointless since there already is chess which is more sophisticated.
That's like saying a 69 Mustang is pointless since there already is a 2005 Mustang which is more sophisticated.

Card Games : Gin Rummy and Spades
Board Games : Scrabble and Chess

I love a good game of chess. I am also an old school D&D geek. There is little that is more fun than a group of friends playing some pencil and paper Dungeons and Dragons. That's right, conservative D&D geeks, we exist. I also enjoy a good game of monopoly whenever I have eight hours to spare.

Strip Poker and Risk

Chess and Risk.

Its got to be Spades, Rummy and Bones! I think everyone that has ever served in the military and been deployed at least once has played all of these, No? God, I remember all the cheats in spades now. The one game that you can completly stack the deck in one shuffle with ease.

Risk, Monopoly is always a good game, solitare, i am not afraid to mention this part of my past, but i use to enjoy pokemon cards...i have matured since then

Risk, Monopoly is always a good game, solitare, i am not afraid to mention this part of my past, but i use to enjoy pokemon cards...i have matured since then

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

*Sob...*

Spin the Bottle - 18+ UK version

:D

Varying forms of poker, chess, monopoly, risk, and my all-time favorite..... SOCCER! (sports are games no matter how you try to put it)

Star Fleet Battles


Yay!

Bullshit, Black Jack, And I just started getting into Texas Hold 'em.

Risk and Monopoly are good for brutally murdering a few hours of your day.
Magic Realm is nice, but it is insanely complicated and takes (on average) about 2-3 hours to set up.
The Awful Green Things from outer space is fun, but it tends to end with either the Green Things slaughtering the Crew because the weapons don't work right (resulting in a long series of die roles as you use that stupid table for having used the escape pods), or the Crew gets all the "Shrink" and "4-die to kill" type stuff and really cleans up. And now I've just completely lost most of the people who are reading this.

Stratego, Hex, Go, Chess, Spades, Risk, Monopoly, just to name a few...

Lots of Card games, A&A and Risk, Diplomacy if I'm in the mood for it.

Risk 2210 rules all

Risk 2210 rules all
Yea...I can't hardly stand regular Risk after having played that...

yeah, don't you love how the cards can turn a game around

Ah, i'm not really into bored games.

Just wondering what (or if) people enjoy playing: board games, card games, whatever.

Chess and poker are two personal favourite "classics" (I prefer Draw Poker but lately I've begun to be seduced by Texas Hold 'em). Mah-Jongg (Chinese rules -- the "American rules" version is, IMO, a game for idiots) is also a good way to pass an evening.

On the commercial board game front, let's see, on the shelf in front of me some favourites are Britannia (good but overlong now that I seldom have time to pull an all-night session); Fury of Dracula (also good, if a bit odd in that it's one against all the rest); Warlock (very old Games Workshop card game, which has its charms); and Supremacy (like a very superior version of Risk with nuclear weapons, a very cool and easy system of handling an international resources market and billion $ notes).

Texas Hold 'em is badass...along with High Hand High Heart. Poker just rules in general. I'm going to Vegas in a year.

That old "Dragon Dice" game from TSR. Probably a bit obscure, but anyone here ever play it?

A drinking shot game involving vodka and penny coins.

Top Trumps :)

Settlers Of Catan

Ultimatum

Mille Bornes

4000 A.D.

Strip Paintball and Chess are two of my favorites.

Igo (aka Paduk, Wei Chi) is the greatest of all serious games, IMNSHO. Beautifully simple and elegant, easy to learn, and a true bitch to master. The rules are incredibly simple, but play is orders of magnatude above chess in complexity. The super computers can give top ranked chess players a good run for their money, but can't lay a finger on a top go player. And there is a simple system for handicapping, that allows for evenly matching players of differing skill levels.

For fun games, I like Monopoly, poker, Risk, and hanafuda (a Japanese card game). I'd like to learn mah-jong as well.

And for pencil and paper rpgs (the computer gamers had a perfectly good word - adventure game - before they stole rpg), I like good ole Basic D&D and 1st edition AD&D, Arduin, Empire of the Petal Throne (and it's middle incarnation, Swords and Glory), Traveller (in most of its incarnations), Twilight 2000 1st or 2nd edition, Call of Cthullu, Paranoia, and my own homebrew cyberpunk rules. (I have yet to find a cyberpunk game I really like, although the old GURPS version came closest.)

I love a good game of contract bridge. Also cribbage, and gin.

Lets see:

Monopoly (with our own set of rules), blackjack, strip-anything, Trivial Pursuit, Yahtzee, D&D, Tequila Pigs, risk, just to name a few.

Hmm, hard to choose a clear winner, either chess or D&D...

Munchkin

Any game preceded by the word 'strip'....

risk, l'attaque (an obscure game we have with army ranks from the time of WW1 and you have to capture a flag) and monoply if I win :p

Card games: whist, hearts (UK rules, not US), gin rummy.

Skill games: chess, draughts, stratego.

Board games: risk, monopoly, diplomacy.

Party games: chubby bunnies, if you love me darling, etc.

Chess, Bridge, Go (originally chinese board game more complex than chess).