Do you have a favourite board game?

[Rhythm Thief]

Boggle and Kerplunk (as mentioned by others) are both great games.

 

[ChrisKH]

Thank God you're not teaching your son Naked Twister.

My youngest has a penchant for stripping naked and running around the house and garden (he's 4 going on 5), so I don't really need to.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Strip chess...not that I ever get to play it.

 

[Fnaar]

"It's Buckaroo! The rootin' tootin' bucking game! Take turns putting buckets, ropes and just about anything on buckaroo's back, until...."

 

[Melvil]

Draughts (checkers) is my fave...there's a surprising amount of possible moves and tactics in what is a very simple game*






*Well, the original version is simple. American college students play a hideously complicated version of it which I have attempted. Once.

 

[monnet]

My vote goes to backgammon. For similar reason as Melvil has put for draughts. I also like the fact that it seems to be determined by luck but actually there's a lot of skill required. You also need alot of quick thinking - especially if you're playing against the Greeks or Turks.

 

[longers]

Another vote for backgammon. I play so infrequently that I have to look up the set up and the rules but everytime I play I think "must do this again, it's quite good" then forget about it .

Love playing cards though. Used to sit up with my Granny and her cronies playing Whist.
I love cribbage, canasta, newmarket, shithead, 3 card brag, rummy and a dangerous game which begins with an R and is possibly of Northern Irish descent.
In this game you are dealt two cards and are betting against the dealers pot on getting a card inbetween your two cards. Simple? Yes. A table full of mates who've been to the pub playing with 5p minimum stakes? Deadly.
If the card turned by the dealer is the same as one of yours you pay double your bet. I won £166 on one card once . He was a student and never paid up in full though. You need a few people to make this game work as it's about peoples characters and reactions rather than the actual cards themselves. Having been in the pub also helps .

 

[Pete]

I always feel I ought to have made something of Cluedo in my lifetime - seeing as I like these sort of logical, lateral-thinking sort of puzzles, doing them all the time. But on every occasion I've sat down to a game it's been hopeless: never won a game yet in my recollection.

But I still think it was Miss Peacock in the Conservatory, with the Candlestick...

 

[mondobongo]

Another vote for Backgammon whiled away many a break from the Casino floor playing backgammon in the staffroom.

 

[NickM]

Oi! We're not supposed to be talking about card games!

But since we are... why do so many ghastly people play bridge? It's a perfectly good game, but they take it so seriously, as though the whole of their teeny-weeny personality was dependent on winning. "It's only a game" seems to be far beyond their comprehension. I had to give up playing.

 

[walker]

Strip chess...not that I ever get to play it.

How the Donald Duck do you play chess and turn it into a strip game?






My vote goes for Trivial Pursuit. always a favourite game of mine

 

[Fnaar]

How the Donald Duck do you play chess and turn it into a strip game?

Lose a piece, lose an item of clothing, I guess. Make sure you keep your bishop safe!

 

[Dayvo]

Not exactly a board game, but I used to like Mastermind (not questions, just trying to find the correct sequence of four coloured pegs in a board).

Cribbage was good (or does that count as a card game? - but played on a board) but that might have had something to do with the venue!

 

[Pete]

Oi! We're not supposed to be talking about card games!

But since we are... why do so many ghastly people play bridge? It's a perfectly good game, but they take it so seriously, as though the whole of their teeny-weeny personality was dependent on winning. "It's only a game" seems to be far beyond their comprehension. I had to give up playing.

I'd second that, NickM. I used (student days) to play bridge lots. And - yes - it gets a hold of you. You find yourself remembering notable deals, chatting to someone else days after who wasn't there, you sketch out the deal for them and start discussing what you should have done on the night ("should have taken that heart finesse earlier") - that sort of thing. I don't understand why, but this is how I used to take it ... must have been a real saddo (as if I weren't one now! )

And I'm still sore that my partner raised my One Club to Six Clubs, holding eight clubs in his hand and little else ... nearly socked him one for that !
See what I mean...?

p.s. Bridge, anyone?