Board games

[Nimruzir]

I like playing Chess, and I dunno if you all know this, Games of the Generals. Games of the Generals is this 2-player boardgame looks like Chess but with no colors on the squares, where the players have armies of pieces with different military ranks, each rank is hidden from the enemy. The player pieces are tin and L-shaped, and they can be put on top of the enemy piece, like two L's facing each other, their bases overlapping. The ranks are printed on the backside hidden from the enemies view. There is a third player called an ARBITER, only he can look at the pieces and call which side won in an encounter, and the players guess what piece it is that beat his piece. A 5-star General beats all pieces from 4-star General to Colonel, To Major, Lieutenant, Sargeant, to Private, except the SPY piece, but a PRIVATE piece beats a SPY piece. The game is won when 1)all the enemy pieces are captured(beaten), 2) When your FLAG piece reaches the end board of the enemy side, and 3) if your enemy surrenders. It's a very exciting strategy game and fun too!

Other than that I like Snakes and Ladders and Sorry. There was once a Spongebob episode where they played Eels and Escalators, Bikini Bottom's version of Snakes and Ladders. :-)

[Coconut Ent]

Originally posted by Nimruzir
I like playing Chess, and I dunno if you all know this, Games of the Generals. Games of the Generals is this 2-player boardgame looks like Chess but with no colors on the squares, where the players have armies of pieces with different military ranks, each rank is hidden from the enemy. The player pieces are tin and L-shaped, and they can be put on top of the enemy piece, like two L's facing each other, their bases overlapping. The ranks are printed on the backside hidden from the enemies view. There is a third player called an ARBITER, only he can look at the pieces and call which side won in an encounter, and the players guess what piece it is that beat his piece. A 5-star General beats all pieces from 4-star General to Colonel, To Major, Lieutenant, Sargeant, to Private, except the SPY piece, but a PRIVATE piece beats a SPY piece. The game is won when 1)all the enemy pieces are captured(beaten), 2) When your FLAG piece reaches the end board of the enemy side, and 3) if your enemy surrenders. It's a very exciting strategy game and fun too!

This game sounds almost like Stratego. High ranks beat low ranks, and the ranks are hidden from the opposite side. There is no Arbiter though. The ranks in STratego are :Marshall, General, Colonel, Major, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Sapper, Scout, and Spy. The Spy can kill the Marshall, but is otherwise the weakest piece.

The Flag can't move, and the object is to capture your emenie's flag.

I left out one rank, but I can't remember which. I also forget if a Sergeant outranks a Lieutenant, or the reverse.

[mpee]

Originally posted by sarahloui
I and my sister pull out Disney monopoly every now and then, its the only form of the game I can ever stand sitting through . I do enjoy cluedo and cranium when I'm holiday with friends. It's finding the time to play them which is half the problem when I'm home and getting the people together to do them. We usually have a games night every couple of months as a change from the norm. Pictionary always prove to drive to people nuts, Password is a good one for a laugh but be prepared for alot of yelling and scrambling. I gave up on trivial pursuit, until this new one has been brought out with questions on the last twenty years, now that i may be able to play!!
Scrabble is the one which drives me nuts, I don't know enough words!!

Sara Lou

Hiya Sara Lou

I've never heard of Password; care to fill us in on what that game is about!

~ Matt

[Dragonomine]

Hate board games. But alas...sonetimes the kids trap me into Sorry or something equally as mundane.

[sarahloui]

Originally posted by mpee
Hiya Sara Lou

I've never heard of Password; care to fill us in on what that game is about!

~ Matt

Sure thing, you have this round disc which you place round cards inside it and when it's closed one word shows up. You have to describe the word to your team and then pass the disc to the other team who press the trigger for the next word, when that word is guessed it's passed back and the same happens again etc Meanwhile a beeper is started which gets faster and faster and you have to describe the words and get rid of the disc before the buzzer ends. Which ever team ends up with the disc when the buzzer ends loses and your playing peice moves one along the small game board you have. Chaos enuses as the beeps get faster and everyone yelling descriptions and answers at the same time, well you can imagine the noise. Great fun!!

Sara Lou

[Sciguy]

I love board games. Ones you can play with a group are the best, like Trivial Pursuit, Balderdash, Cranium, Taboo. Also if you can committ hours upon hours, Risk is a great one as well. For head-to-head I like Chess and Stratego.

[Dragonomine]

Originally posted by sarahloui
Sure thing, you have this round disc which you place round cards inside it and when it's closed one word shows up. You have to describe the word to your team and then pass the disc to the other team who press the trigger for the next word, when that word is guessed it's passed back and the same happens again etc Meanwhile a beeper is started which gets faster and faster and you have to describe the words and get rid of the disc before the buzzer ends. Which ever team ends up with the disc when the buzzer ends loses and your playing peice moves one along the small game board you have. Chaos enuses as the beeps get faster and everyone yelling descriptions and answers at the same time, well you can imagine the noise. Great fun!!

Sara Lou

Sadly, I remember the original Password game.

[Boomstick]

Hey, you know what game I do love? Hungry, Hungry Hippos! Yeah, baby!

No, really, I do. I mean, you smack a paddle that makes a hippo eat marbles or whatever it is. What's not to like?

[mpee]

Originally posted by Boomstick
Hey, you know what game I do love? Hungry, Hungry Hippos! Yeah, baby!

No, really, I do. I mean, you smack a paddle that makes a hippo eat marbles or whatever it is. What's not to like?

Jeepers Boomer, you took my way back in time there for a moment! I remember playing that game once or twice.

I remember the advert they used to have on tv for that game, and at the end they even had one of the hippos burp!

~ Matt

[Boomstick]

Originally posted by mpee

I remember the advert they used to have on tv for that game, and at the end they even had one of the hippos burp!

Yes! That was the best part of the advert!

[Pherthon]

In the winter holidays, being stuck at a friends property about 20 ks out of Orange (west NSW), rained in with about 6 friends we stummbled upon pictionary, set up teams of 2, and havent looked back since! We played for about 2 days until the rain stopped and we could leave. About 6 months on we still play, and still keep our original teams. Its suprising how much fun it is, we are all addicted!

Another good board game is Baulderdash, hehe.

[Pherthon]

In the winter holidays, being stuck at a friends property about 20 ks out of Orange (west NSW), rained in with about 6 friends we stummbled upon pictionary, set up teams of 2, and havent looked back since! We played for about 2 days until the rain stopped and we could leave. About 6 months on we still play, and still keep our original teams. Its suprising how much fun it is, we are all addicted!

Another good board game is Baulderdash, hehe.

I have a theory you don't know a person until you play monopoly against them...i swear peoples true personalities emerge over a monopoly board!

[Boomstick]

Originally posted by Pherthon
I have a theory you don't know a person until you play monopoly against them...i swear peoples true personalities emerge over a monopoly board!

That's a really good observation, games do offer quite an insight into someone's true personality. While Monopoly, or most any board game, doesn't do it for me, if someone thrashes me in a computer game, mostly the fighting ones, I've been known to become a raving lunatic.

(not kidding)

[Camech]

I just played Risk for the first time last night (and into the early part of this morning). I can safely say I didn't lose miserably -- just in a regular fashion. Considering the fact that I was playing against my cousin, who has about eight years of experience, I faired rather well.

I carved out a decent territory for myself, but was fated to lose from my initial stragizing. What sealed the deal was when I waged an unsuccessful campaign on an area that had been largely ignored for the game. All I succeeded in doing was reminding my cousin that he had units stationed there. He managed to annihilate me quite methodically after that, and four hours into the game I was out. Then, I just waited for him to overtake my brother's army.

Overall, very fun game. I reccommend it to anyone with a deal of patience.

[Bern]

I used to love Monopoly so much when I was a kid that I had the property prices memorized and even the rents for most of them.

Played Balderdash once. That was great, would like to play again sometime. . .

It`s been a while, but Scrabble is fun too.

Anyone ever play Go? I got it for my brother several years ago but we couldn`t figure out whose pieces were surrounding whose at the end.

This isn`t a board game, but anyone ever play Pit? Several sets of 8 or 9 cards representing stock market items like corn, soybeans, sugar, cocoa, etc. There`s also a Bear and a Bull card. You try to trade back and forth until you "corner" the market by having all cards of one item. You don`t want to get caught with the Bear card at the end, but IIRC the Bull card is good to have if you corner the market. Extra points maybe? It is the LOUDEST game I ever played, and also possibly the most fun. It`s just like that scene in Trading Places when they`re at the New York Stock Exchange.