FAVOURITE! BOARD GAME! EVER!

[Mr Cat Dog]

Title's pretty self-explanatory, although by 'board game' I mean the more 'linear' games of Monopoly, Game of Life and the like, as opposed to RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons.

For me, it's a toss-up between Monopoly and Pay Day.

I assume most people are familiar with Monopoly, so I won't go into the mechanics of that, but Pay Day's objective is to have the most money at the end of the game. The board is made up of a calendar month with each space representing a day (and subsequent activity on that day e.g. Pay vet bills of $300) with a dice to roll to determine which spaces you go on. At the end of the month, there's a Pay Day, and the game continues for however months have been pre-determined by the players. In university, this game got sooooo much useage, but I'd played it when I was a lot younger, so it has the added benefit of being a nostalgic game and a more recent one.

Monopoly, on the other hand, is pure nostalgia, from the rules that we used to make up but thought were completely 100% real (Free Parking is a secret money stash, you can't buy property on your first go-around the board) to the back-door shenanigans people would enter into towards the end of the game to try and acquire as much property as possible. The constant variations on the game were a bit much - there's one about my home city which is the crappiest thing I've ever seen - but the tried-and-true game can't be beat.

 

[Overlord Drakow]

Monopoly for me. Played it a fair amount when I was back at university with my room mate and friends. Good times lol.

 

[Esper]

There are so many good board games.

I like me some of the simpler ones: chess, checkers, go, Chinese checkers, but Risk and Scrabble are two I don't turn down whenever I get the chance to play. Scrabble lets me show off my vocabulary skills and Risk, well, Risk is half entertaining to play to see who looses their temper first. I don't know what it is about that game, but people loose their cool over it.

 

[BeliVuk]

Mievue, a French early 20th century board game that my great grandfather bought on a trip to Berlin.

 

[GibbyGibson]

If we are talking strictly games that consist of a board to play on, then I have to say that I've been fixated on Dugeonquest: Third Edition for the past few months now. The nature of how hard it is to beat the game is probably whey I've been playing it so much. I just have to try and get as much gold as possible before the dragon wakes up. I've yet to make it out of the dungeon alive once. :(

But if we are allowed to bring card games into the mix here, my most favorite tabletop game has to be the card game: Race for the Galaxy. A card game that feels like a TCG, but is not. The gameplay style has always been one of my most favorite ever (right behind build your own deck games like Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer). The premise behind the game is great, the story works wonders, and you actually feel like you are trying to be the first one to set foot in the extraterrestrial expanses of space. Each time I bring it out to play, I feel sad when it's over and want to play another round, or two.

Anyway, I could list game upon game here, but you asked for my most favorite, not favorites. XD So I'll stop here.

GibbyGibson

 

[Rest]

I used to play Snakes and Ladders all the time with the mates for kicks. It's always funny when you reach so close to the last square only to have your position sabotaged by snakes. :D

 

[mondays suck]

MENSCH! ÄRGERE! DICH! NICHT!

Most of you probably never heard of it as it doesn't have international success (too bad for the rest of the world :p), so let me try to explain:
You play on a field like this (in fact I'm pretty sure I have that exact board, except that in the jar with the pieces that many years ago once contained some kind of sausage (not in classic sausage form, obviously), there aren't these wooden red and gold dices, but plastic white and black ones which are lighter and smoother):

This one for 2-4 players is the standard one, but larger fields for higher amounts of players exist exist.
Each player starts with 4 pieces, they all start in their team's 2x2 square, B. When a player rolls a 6, he can move one piece from B to A. A variation says that you even have to do this, and clear A as soon as possible. When you roll a 6, you can roll again, so it's possible to do this in the same turn - unless the field you would move onto is already blocked by a friendly piece, as two pieces cannot coexist on one field - if they are hostile to each other, the one already standing there is taken back to B, if they are friendly, the piece that would move onto a field occupied by it's cannot move that turn. The aim is to get all your 4 pieces from B to a, b, c, and d. This final row is, again, in the player's color, other players cannot enter it, so it's impossible to beat a piece that managed to reach at least a. However, in this area, pieces cannot jump over each other, so the first piece that reaches this zone will have to go to d and, accordingly, the last one will have to go to a and, as long is victory is not in the bag yet, remains extremely vulnerable - a piece standing on the last field before a is, obviously, a prime target, everyone else will try to get close to it and send it back to B it if possible. Don't worry if all your pieces are standing in B: When no possible outcome of the dice roll other than 6 would lead to anything, you can roll 3 times. That's the case in the beginning, but also when you two pieces in c and d and the other two in B. If they are, however, in d and b, so that you either need a 1 or a 6, you can only roll once per turn - sucks if you keep rolling 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s.

Doesn't sound too interesting? Well, I don#t share that opinion, for me it's fun - unless someone keeps rolling nothing but 6s or you are being spawn camped, meaning that someone, usually the person to your right, keeps lining up all but one of his peaces right behind your A field.

A, B, and a-d don't always have these names, but on this particular board, they do, and because I own one of these, that's the way I'm used to things.