Okay, so whilst I was on my most recent NS hiatus, I had joined/created quite a crew of pals IRL(tm) who loved to play board games, and we started having weekly game nights. Little did I anticipate just how much of an obsession this newfound hobby/club/social-activity-thing that I was a part of would turn into. I LOVE board games. Over the last couple years, we have played many, many games and I have established a list of tried-and-true favorites.
Anyway, I am curious to know if any of you also play board games (more intense than your basic Scrabble or Monopoly, etc. - not to knock Scrabble, because I love that game) and which ones you love or are trying out or are curious to try out!
We normally do board games on Sunday night. Last night we tried a new one - more involving cards than an actual board - called Coup.
"In the not too distant future, the government is run for profit by a new "royal class" of multi-national CEOs. Their greed and absolute control of the economy has reduced all but a privileged few to lives of poverty and desperation. Out of the oppressed masses rose The Resistance, an underground organization focused on overthrowing these powerful rulers. The valiant efforts of The Resistance have created discord, intrigue and weakness in the political courts of the novena royal, bringing the government to brink of collapse. But for you, a powerful government official, this is your opportunity to manipulate, bribe and bluff your way into absolute power."
I wanted to share this here, because it's a quick-to-learn and endlessly fun to play game with political elements and lots of drama, intrigue and machinations - a last-man standing sort of game, and a good place to start if you haven't ever veered from the Parker Brothers assortment of board games before. We played about 6 rounds of it in an hour and a half, and could have played it for a lot longer. (Will probably play it again sometime this evening, tbh.)
Here's a link to it on Amazon.
On a scale of 1 to Awesome, I give it a Super-Great.
Please tell me what you're playing, what you love, what you want to play, and what you would never buy or play again!
Anyway, I am curious to know if any of you also play board games (more intense than your basic Scrabble or Monopoly, etc. - not to knock Scrabble, because I love that game) and which ones you love or are trying out or are curious to try out!
We normally do board games on Sunday night. Last night we tried a new one - more involving cards than an actual board - called Coup.
"In the not too distant future, the government is run for profit by a new "royal class" of multi-national CEOs. Their greed and absolute control of the economy has reduced all but a privileged few to lives of poverty and desperation. Out of the oppressed masses rose The Resistance, an underground organization focused on overthrowing these powerful rulers. The valiant efforts of The Resistance have created discord, intrigue and weakness in the political courts of the novena royal, bringing the government to brink of collapse. But for you, a powerful government official, this is your opportunity to manipulate, bribe and bluff your way into absolute power."
I wanted to share this here, because it's a quick-to-learn and endlessly fun to play game with political elements and lots of drama, intrigue and machinations - a last-man standing sort of game, and a good place to start if you haven't ever veered from the Parker Brothers assortment of board games before. We played about 6 rounds of it in an hour and a half, and could have played it for a lot longer. (Will probably play it again sometime this evening, tbh.)
Here's a link to it on Amazon.
On a scale of 1 to Awesome, I give it a Super-Great.
Please tell me what you're playing, what you love, what you want to play, and what you would never buy or play again!
. Picking up 7 Wonders because boardgamegeek.com ranked it super highly, so I figured it'd be a nice introduction to the more mainstream free-for-all boardgames. The only game I actually own at the moment is the Euro Ticket to Ride. My group used to just play the party game werewolf, or some of the smaller pick-up-and-plays like Munchkin and Fluxx. 
