Board, do you board?

Catan is reliably entertaining, but my current obsession of choice is Betrayal at House on the Hill. In a nutshell, you all play a character and explore a haunted house. The more you explore, the more resources you get, but eventually you will trigger "the Haunt," which is a random scenario where you all team up against a big baddie, where one of you is the big baddie, or where one of you is secretly the bad guy. Needless to say, games are unpredictable but reasonably fun. Sometimes the house just kills you. Sometimes, you overcome the zombie lord at the last second. Sometimes, you get infected by alien spores and, driven by their will, start hacking up everyone in your way. A+ would buy again!

Yes, although more card than boards. Current fave is Dominion. I usually avoid co-op.

Kept my streak alive tonight. We recently got the Ticket to Ride Great Britain/Pennsylvania expansion and I've won 4 times in a row.

Huckleberry wrote: I hate "bored" games including anything having to do with cards. So no. Rare exceptions include chess, scrabble or trivial pursuit but I am usually done after one round.

This exactly. I thought I was the only one. My wife thinks I'm some kind of un-American mutant because of this.

We used to play euchre a lot.

Also "ghetto scrabble"- only rule was you had to be able to use the word in a sentence.

I found this game at Goodwill and my son and Dad have enjoyed playing it a number of times.

Risk on occasion but lately it has been Uno.

KyAllroad wrote: Kept my streak alive tonight. We recently got the Ticket to Ride Great Britain/Pennsylvania expansion and I've won 4 times in a row.

Tell me about this expansion. We have TTR and have played on numerous occasions. Does the expansion add anything more than new routes?

I felt like Ticket To Ride was pretty boring. No real strategy. Mostly up to luck. Took awhile to finish.

Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: I found this game at Goodwill and my son and Dad have enjoyed playing it a number of times. Risk on occasion but lately it has been Uno.

I have that! The family copy from 50 years ago!

1988RedT2 wrote:

KyAllroad wrote: Kept my streak alive tonight. We recently got the Ticket to Ride Great Britain/Pennsylvania expansion and I've won 4 times in a row.

Tell me about this expansion. We have TTR and have played on numerous occasions. Does the expansion add anything more than new routes?

It's a new board, new routes and some variations to game play. GB side you have to "buy" tools in order to built certain routes. Pennsylvania side you earn "stock certificates" for certain routes which are worth points.

I guess it's considered an expansion because you still use your trains from the base game but everything else is different.

stroker wrote:

Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote: I found this game at Goodwill and my son and Dad have enjoyed playing it a number of times.

I have that! The family copy from 50 years ago!

I have one of those also! Same box. I played it at a friends (maybe in the 80's?) and always remembered it. I had to buy it from England, I don't know if it was ever available in the US (it's Parker Brothers, so maybe?). I have a bunch of MicroMachines I can use as cars. It was originally published in the early 60's, I am not sure when that box was made.

The mechanics of the game are interesting (tire wear is cool), but as I remember entering the pits is done by an exact number, so you could enter the pits at 20-180mph, whichever one gets you to that pit spot, which is kind of strange.

BTW - the definitive source for board game info is Board Game Geek:

Board Game Geek

Yes, it is very geeky.

I enjoy board games where people can't gang up on me. Sorry and Aggravation and those sorts will have me storming out of the room in minutes, which, of course, is why they gang up on me.

As a kid, I was really good at Clue. I could figure out questions to ask and keep track far better than most anybody I played against. Logic rules!