# Your favorite board game?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 6, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783 "2001-10-06T14:56:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/1 "2001-10-06T14:56:37Z")
Mine favorites would be
**Baulderdash** - Played with the right people I laugh so hard I can’t see straight.
I’ve also recently taken a fancy to **Chinese checkers**. I’m starting to understand the strategy plus I like playing with marbles 🙂
So what are your favorites?
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### Author:  [@atypicalcarl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atypicalcarl)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/2 "2001-10-06T15:41:25Z")
**Risk** ™ is my favorite. I find the political alliances and treacheries to be endlessly amusing. Nothing is more satisfying than annihilating an ally in the endgame. 🙂
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/3 "2001-10-06T16:11:35Z")
Diplomacy.
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### Author:  [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/4 "2001-10-06T16:22:07Z")
It’s gotta be **Talisman**. An old favorite of gamers everywhere, it’s put out by Games Workshop occasionally, whenever they get around to it, if the phases of the moon is right.
It’s a board game that changes every time you play it; you play using different characters each time, who have different special abilities. So, kinda like a role-playing/board game cross. Tons of fun.
And, as I’ve recently discovered, there are expansion packs all over the net for this game.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/5 "2001-10-06T16:22:22Z")
Monopoly
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### Author:  [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/6 "2001-10-06T16:23:39Z")
**Settlers of Cataan**.
A great German board game. The board is different every time you play; it’s REALLY simple to learn, yet plenty of strategy is involved in winning; and there are rule variations and expansion packs (the latest one, “Cities and Knights of Cataan”, rocks) to keep it always interesting.
“um… anyone got any brick they wanna trade?”
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/7 "2001-10-06T16:24:51Z")
**Scrabble**
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### Author:  [@illuminati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/illuminati)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/8 "2001-10-06T16:42:13Z")
My favourite is Cranium
its taken the best bits of so many other games and combined then into one 'hypa’game
if you get the chance play it you wont regret it
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/9 "2001-10-06T16:51:01Z")
I like a trivia game we have, IIRC it’s called **Connect II** , where you answer six trivia questions on a card, but then you have to figure hout how they are all related to each other.
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### Author:  [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/10 "2001-10-06T16:52:34Z")
Monopoly and Checkers
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### Author:  [@lenin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lenin)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/11 "2001-10-06T16:53:50Z")
Yes! Another person who has heard of Cataan! I love that game. Especially when you get those expansions…
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/12 "2001-10-06T16:55:48Z")
I’ll second MrVisible’s vote for Talisman. A very fun game. We use to play our own variant, were you built the board out of individual tiles as you played the game. Post any sites you’ve seen that have variants.
atypicalcarl, have you seen the new version of Risk; Risk 2210 AD? It’s an expanded version of the classic Risk with opportunites to invade the moon, capture underwater colonies, launch nuclear wars, etc.
Ino, here’s two sites you should check: [http://www.diplom.org/Online/variants1.html](http://www.diplom.org/Online/variants1.html) or [http://www.variantbank.com/alphabet/variantsa.htm](http://www.variantbank.com/alphabet/variantsa.htm)
I also enjoy Axis & Allies and its Europe and Pacific sequels. Dealer’s Choice and Amoeba are too out of print board games I’ve bought used copies of; both are excellent. And Fluxx is a card game not a board game, but it’s fun and unique.
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### Author:  [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/13 "2001-10-06T16:58:11Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Trivial Persuit yet. I love this game, and I keep planning to get a set of my own.
I also love Scrabble, but I can’t find that many people willing to play.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/14 "2001-10-06T17:03:19Z")
Does anyone else remember playing a game called **Fictionary** , which was essentially the same as **Balderdash**? Many years before Balderdash came out, we would just take a large dictionary, flip through it, and choose a difficult or exotic word. Whoever guessed it got to do the next search. If no one guessed it then you got to go again. Even then my family bought the game :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/15 "2001-10-06T17:11:07Z")
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> \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \*
> \*\*I like a trivia game we have, IIRC it’s called **Connect II** , where you answer six trivia questions on a card, but then you have to figure hout how they are all related to each other. \*\*
That would be Stage II, be I not mistaken. Good hard questions in that one.
The wife and I have been palying quite a bit of Trumpet lately. It’s a trick-taking Card Game crossed with Cribbage. Very tricky.
-Myron
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/16 "2001-10-06T17:29:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by The Man Who \*
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> That would be Stage II, be I not mistaken. Good hard questions in that one.\*\*
Yeah, that’s right. I knew the name I had in my head didn’t sound correct.
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/17 "2001-10-06T17:34:39Z")
**Trivial pursuit**. My partner and I can take on anyone and win. We’ll take you _all_ on and still win. Awwwww yeah.
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### Author:  [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/18 "2001-10-06T17:40:49Z")
I’m partial to the Silver Screen edition of Trivial Pursuit. I like Scrabble, too, but haven’t played in ages.
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### Author:  [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/19 "2001-10-06T18:10:53Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by pezpunk \*
> I’m starting to understand the strategy plus I like playing with marbles 🙂
If you like strategy & marbles, may I recommend my favourite game: [Abalone](http://www.abalonegames.com/cfm2001/accueil/accueil_gb.cfm). I discovered this game when I was working a Christmas job in a game store and I love it.
To quote the rules from the website:
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> In Abalone, each player of the game has 14 balls.
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> The aim is to oust 6 of the opponent’s balls.
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> Both players can displace 1, 2 or 3 balls at the most, on every turn, in a single stroke, in any direction.
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> To be able to push your opponent’s balls, you need to have a numerical superiority : with 3 balls you can push 1 or 2 balls; and with 2 balls you can push 1.
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> If the number of balls is the same on each side (1 ball against 1 ball, 2 balls against 2 and 3 balls against 3), it is impossble to push.
(thanks go out to Joey who found me a link)
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### Author:  [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-board-game/85783/20 "2001-10-06T18:26:03Z")
I prefer risk to diplomacy because diplomacy takes forever. Risk amplifies the emotional intensity by its speed, and takes a little of the sting out of it because there is more front stabbing than back stabbing.
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