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[K-StateFry]

Last night my family bought the board game "Mad Gab" and I thought it would be interesting to start a topic about board games on TSS. I would have made this a poll but I figured this could be more of a topic about several of your favourite board games and maybe some you would recommend to others.

My family and I usually play board games(and other types of games) around the holidays, such as Monoply, Risk, poker, password, charades, things like that.
So I was wondering if there were any games(board games or maybe even ones you made up) that you like to play?
I figured it would be fun to talk about any games we may play and teach them to anyone on here that doesn't know how to play, or maybe just give some recommendations on a game to go buy at the store.

I haven't actually played "Mad Gab" yet so I couldn't reccomend it until I have, but it's basically a game with a phrase of words that make up a puzzle and you have to figure that puzzle out.
Like, "Canoe Key Pace He Grit" which the answer is "Can You Keep A Secret".
The motto for the game is "It's not what you say, It's what you hear" so I guess that might be a better explanation than what I just gave.

My family also plays some trivia games, theres one particular one that I can't think of thats really fun, so I'll try to find out and post it here. But I would recommend playing monoply some time and definetly charades and password. (If you don't know how to play those just ask and I would be more than happy to explain)

So, feel free to post about any board game that you would recommend or any other kind of game you like to play with family and friends! 

[ginjirotchi]

Oh man! I remember my grandparents got the game mad gab from someone as a Christmas gift about 8 years ago. The whole family was addicted to it for the entire two weeks off (except me because I had no clue how to play, and was impatient when it came to games, hehe). I used to sit and watch them play, and everyone would go a little crazy at times. I think you had to guess something before the timer hit 0.

I enjoy playing "Trouble" with my grandmother, and we normally play around this time of year as well. I enjoy watching people play charades, but never participate because I'm pretty shy around my extended family. ^.^

Btw is password when someone thinks of a word, and everyone in the circle has to whisper what they hear to one another until it gets to the last person in the circle? If so, then that is a game I always used to play with my cousins, about ten years ago when we were all little ^^ Good times!

[TigerLily013]

The main board games I recall being really interested in as a kid were Trivial Pursuit and Sorry! (I was awesome at that game). As I got around my early teens we had The Game of Life at one point. Today I'd like to go for Monopoly again.

[Elana]

A few weeks ago I went on a weekend trip with my choir to a summer camp facility, and they brought a game called Apples to Apples that I'd never played before. It was a lot of fun!

There's no board per se, just a board game box full of cards. There are noun cards and adjective cards. Everyone is dealt a small hand of noun cards. Then an adjective card is flipped over from the deck of adjective cards. Every player has to pick a noun from their hand that most suits the adjective. For example, if the adjective is "shiny", and you have "machine gun" in your hand, you could put down that card. Each round, one of the players is a judge, and they flip over all the noun cards that everyone put down, and judges which one is the funniest, most clever, or most apt. Whoever put down that card gets to keep the adjective card, and that's how you count up your score at the end: who has the most adjective cards?

So it's a game of comedy and cleverness, as well as knowing the sense of humour of your friends when they're the judge! We played it for hours. It was so much fun.

[Bojko]

I loved games when we were growing up, my Mum and I used to play Scrabble frequently, and my friends and I were addicted to Monopoly at one stage.

I liked Operation a lot, and Risk (except I usually had to play that one by myself, nobody wanted to stick through an entire game).

My friend Jarrad and I made up a game, warning though to the young'ins, it's a drinking game... so rather it be with apple juice... but, the game is way too complicated anyways, we just sort of smashed all these games into one. Things get very strange in the early AM hours:

•   The chessboard is set with the king, queen, bishop, knight and castle in their regular places; all the pawns are replaced with checker pieces. The black player is dealt out 5 cards as poker hand and another 2 for blackjack hand.
•   Set up a game of battle ships to the side.
•   Set two teams, one white one black. Each team must have one member doing cards, and the other managing the board pieces. They agree between them who will drink when a round is lost.
•   The team with the last man standing wins.
•   Players in teams can only be rotated every 5 turns.
•   At the end of the round, everyone stands up. The inability to stand up is grounds for disqualification of that player.
•   White goes first, making moves for chess/checkers, then guessing on the battleships board their move plays against blacks cards then they make a battleships guess then black makes chess/checkers move that plays against whites cards then white moves chess pieces and so on
•   Getting a chess piece to the other side of the board earns you a checker piece for your chess hand
•   Getting a checker to the other side earns you a chess piece for your chess hand
•   If you get a queen in your chess hand it can be a wild card for your poker hand
•   If you don’t take a chess piece in your 1st 12 chess moves you must remove your pants
•   If you get 5 consecutive misses on the battleships board, your opponent gets to slap you in the stomach with a thong
•   For each round you lose. Take a shot of your preferred alcohol. For every fifth round lost, take a shot of alcohol as chosen by your rival.
•   If at anytime you vomit, pass out or try to hit on the opposing player, you are disqualified, unless they are flattered but not really interested. They just want to stay friends.
•   Every tenth round, the tribe votes. If you get voted off you do not win any money.

[K-StateFry]

Btw is password when someone thinks of a word, and everyone in the circle has to whisper what they hear to one another until it gets to the last person in the circle? If so, then that is a game I always used to play with my cousins, about ten years ago when we were all little ^^ Good times!

Yep, thats how we've always played it. My younger brother was even wanting to play it the other night. 

I liked Operation a lot, and Risk (except I usually had to play that one by myself, nobody wanted to stick through an entire game).

Yeah, Risk takes forever to finish, I can't count the times my family and I have started a game and not finished it, haha.

My friend Jarrad and I made up a game, warning though to the young'ins, it's a drinking game... so rather it be with apple juice... but, the game is way too complicated anyways, we just sort of smashed all these games into one. Things get very strange in the early AM hours:

•   The chessboard is set with the king, queen, bishop, knight and castle in their regular places; all the pawns are replaced with checker pieces. The black player is dealt out 5 cards as poker hand and another 2 for blackjack hand.
•   Set up a game of battle ships to the side.
•   Set two teams, one white one black. Each team must have one member doing cards, and the other managing the board pieces. They agree between them who will drink when a round is lost.
•   The team with the last man standing wins.
•   Players in teams can only be rotated every 5 turns.
•   At the end of the round, everyone stands up. The inability to stand up is grounds for disqualification of that player.
•   White goes first, making moves for chess/checkers, then guessing on the battleships board their move plays against blacks cards then they make a battleships guess then black makes chess/checkers move that plays against whites cards then white moves chess pieces and so on
•   Getting a chess piece to the other side of the board earns you a checker piece for your chess hand
•   Getting a checker to the other side earns you a chess piece for your chess hand
•   If you get a queen in your chess hand it can be a wild card for your poker hand
•   If you don’t take a chess piece in your 1st 12 chess moves you must remove your pants
•   If you get 5 consecutive misses on the battleships board, your opponent gets to slap you in the stomach with a thong
•   For each round you lose. Take a shot of your preferred alcohol. For every fifth round lost, take a shot of alcohol as chosen by your rival.
•   If at anytime you vomit, pass out or try to hit on the opposing player, you are disqualified, unless they are flattered but not really interested. They just want to stay friends.
•   Every tenth round, the tribe votes. If you get voted off you do not win any money.

I guess I'll have to wait to play that one since I'm still a "young'in" as far as drinking alcohol goes. 

Also, we played MadGab last night and it was an ok game. Basically you have two teams, one with a guesser(s) and a coach and the other with a stealer(s).
The coach sees what the answer to the puzzle is and the guesser sees the puzzle, so the coach has to listen to the guesser trying to figure the puzzle out and help him by telling him/her to emphasize certain words or say the puzzle faster or slower, that kind of thing.
Then, if the guessers don't get it, the stealer(s) has ten seconds to guess from what they've heard the guesser saying out loud.
It can be fun listening to the guessers saying stupid sounding sentences when you see excatly what it is and how close, or not close they are to getting it. Can be frustrating as well. 

[Priestess of Syrinx]

First off, a nice site for remembering board games of the past is

http://www.boardgamegeek.com

Anyway, my favourite board games, out of the ones we have lying around, are 'Forbidden Bridge' which is this big children's game and pretty straight-forward but is pretty fun because it's got stuff flying everywhere. Also, 'Tornado Rex' which your little guys have to climb this mountain but if you draw the wrong card this top spins down the mountain and whatever it happens to hit, they have to start from where they got knocked to.

Heh, all my board games are old children's ones, nothing fancy or European here.

Although I do hate Monopoly!

[Madcow]

I *LOVE* Board games!  I have a ton, although I used to have more before my dad threw them all away. Meanie.

Anyways, my favorites are Clue, Payday, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, Scattergories, and Connect Four!  I also like Life, Aggrivation/Trouble/Sorry (all three are practically the same game with different names).  I'll play any board game, I just like the ones that have more strategy to them than luck.. Although I do like Yahtzee which is basically all luck, because it's very intense! LOL. 
Besides the games I listed, I also have the Tamagotchi Game [which is pretty fun!], Are You Afraid of the Dark? the game [which I've never played], a Ouija Board [not really a "game" per se, but by parker brothers nonetheless ] and a chess board which I never use, because I am horribly bad at playing chess. 

As much as I love board games, it's sad because no one I know likes them.  My friends will play them with me occasionally but as soon as we've played for a while they suddenly decide that they're bored and they want to stop.  It's pretty annoying, and I wish I could find my board game soul mate out there somewhere. LOL. 

[K-StateFry]

Thanks for the link, Preistess.  I'll definitely have to check it out.

I *LOVE* Board games!  I have a ton, although I used to have more before my dad threw them all away. Meanie.

Anyways, my favorites are Clue, Payday, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary, Scattergories, and Connect Four!  I also like Life, Aggrivation/Trouble/Sorry (all three are practically the same game with different names).  I'll play any board game, I just like the ones that have more strategy to them than luck.. Although I do like Yahtzee which is basically all luck, because it's very intense! LOL. 
Besides the games I listed, I also have the Tamagotchi Game [which is pretty fun!], Are You Afraid of the Dark? the game [which I've never played], a Ouija Board [not really a "game" per se, but by parker brothers nonetheless ] and a chess board which I never use, because I am horribly bad at playing chess. 

As much as I love board games, it's sad because no one I know likes them.  My friends will play them with me occasionally but as soon as we've played for a while they suddenly decide that they're bored and they want to stop.  It's pretty annoying, and I wish I could find my board game soul mate out there somewhere. LOL. 

I think Pictionary and Scattergories are two of my favorite games. We plated Scattergories at my grandparents several years back and I probably had more fun then than any other time I've played a board game.
We should get a game of Scattergories going on here, haha. 

I think I may have to go pick up Scattegories and a trivia game, those two are probably the most fun for me and I haven't played either in awhile.

[Lord Monkey]

Oh man, I love games, what a great topic. Here's some of my favorites:

Heroquest: It's a good ol' dungeon crawl where one person's the dungeon keeper, and everyone else is going through it looking for loot and trying to kill some monsters. I haven't played it since I was a kid, but I think it's going to land under my tree this year^^

Munchkin: This is another nerd game that I've roped Kat into playing, and now it's one of our favorites. It isn't a board game, as much as it's a card game. The premise again is that everyone plays a hero crawling through a dungeon on a quest to reach level ten. The twist though is that you're encouraged to stab your friends in the back on your quest for glory. It's very fun, often causing constant laughter and scowling across the table.

Betrayal at House on the Hill: This one's a little different in that at first everyone's cooperating in exploring this spooky house. The game is played by drawing a tile on your turn and placing it adjacent to other tiles to form the floorplan of a house. Each of the tiles can have items or omens or other generally spooky things. As play progresses, you eventually reach the betrayal round where one of the players randomly turns against everyone else, and must defeat everyone else before the other players defeat them. The conditions for winning change every game, as does the house layout, so it's impossible to play the same game twice. Very fun.

Blokus: I like this game a lot because it's simple. I think it took Kat and me about ten minutes to start playing right out of the box. The game goes like this: everyone has the same set of colored tiles that are shaped and sized differently. Each piece is made up between 1 and 5 squares attached together, pieces with 1 square are worth 1 point, 2 squares 2 points, etc. The board is a perfect square with a grid used to hold the pieces placed upon it. You start off on a corner of the square and place your tiles so that they touch only the corners of any pieces of your color currently in play. As the game progresses and the board gets filled, it becomes more and more difficult to find a place to put your pieces down. Whoever has the fewest points worth of pieces at the end is the winner.

Phase 10: This is another game Kat and I used to play for hours and hours. It's a rummy variant, a card game where your objective is to a number of Sets (cards of the same number) or Runs (Numbers in a sequence) determined by what phase you're currently on. As play progresses, if you are the first person to discard your last card, the round stops and points are tallied. If you were able to get the right sequence of cards to play your phase, you are allowed to progress to the next phase. If you did not play down your phase, you're stuck there until you can successfully play it. The game ends when one person completes all ten phases, and if more than one player gets all 10 phases completed, whoever has the lowest number of points wins the game.

I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting, but that's all I can recall at the moment. We have tons of games here, I think Kat's going to take a picture and post it^^