Board game recommendations

[Captain Ahab Jr]

backgammon

[Embraer]

Hugger Mugger. Hard to find, but man, what a fun educational game.

[VaSteve]

gacook, the train game you are thinking of is called "Ticket to Ride" and is indeed fun for the whole family. Played both the North American and Europe versions of that game.

We have that and it can be fun. There's an expansion pack since my son memorized all the routes. He got a little nasty since we started blocking him....didn't see that as fair.

[Hydrocket]

Trivial Pursuit is a classic...

[dafischer]

Surprised that no one has suggested Risk. Lots of fun.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Hydrocket

Trivial Pursuit is a classic...

Nobody wants to play that one with me, I love that game. My niece and I are banned from ever being on the same team again, or that is what my sister said, and going against what she says is, inadvisable.

Originally Posted by NotaBRG

We play a lot of Cribbage.

Mom's mother taught me. Great game.

Milles Bornes is good, learned to play in my Freshman HS French class. Uno, Skipbo are also nice change of pace from regular card games. Gin rummy, go fish, all the classics.

You could always play bridge.

My parents taught me to play when I was maybe 12, I was the only one of the kids interested. My parents and grandparents would play each other, I watched and eventually got the idea. Grandma taught me that too. She was brutal. I never beat her at checkers or backgammon, maybe a couple times playing cribbage, not counting the first few when she was teaching me. They would not lose much at bridge either, even when they probably should have, she would pull out a trick or two and win.

Chess, checkers, backgammon all good for strategy. We had a magnetic kit that had a board for chess or checkers, with backgammon on the inside, pieces stayed in place pretty well, so it was good for in the car in the middle of Nevada or Kansas, whatever. Clue and Scrabble are good, as is Monopoly, though not as good in the car, unless the car happens to be a van or something. We had Risk contests that went on for days, again, no good in the car. I like board games because they foment discussion and interaction, or seem to anyway. Trivial Pursuit of course is also good for this

Candyland is good for little kids as a first game. No reading needed.

[yel911]

We play "Sequence".

[Eric 951]

In college we played lots of backgammon and canasta.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by ckissick

For good family time, without veging in front of the TV, we like to play fun board games. What are some games that you guys like? Any good new games? We have two daughters, 18 and 13, so games that require a lot of thought and strategy are good.

From my end, we like Rummikub and Settlers of Catan.

We like those also. I think you would like Carcassonne & Sabateur.

If you have scrabble tiles & like rummikub, try take 2 (google take 2 scrabble, very fast)

And try a card game called 'Pitch', it's fast moving: Rules of the High Low Jack | eHow

[syncroid]

We play a lot of Power Yatzee. Way better then the original Yatzee.

[Aragorn]

I always liked playing Clue. Not a real brain drain game but still fun.

Go fish and Uno were the card games we played on vacation.

[LSA]

Not a board game as such but Munchkin is a lot of fun filled with plenty of backstabbery and comedy. It comes in many flavors Scifi, Western, lovecraft etc... Good for the inner nerd in you.

[emcon5]

Go here and poke through the archives: http://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/

It is a web show hosted by Wil Wheaton (the dorky teenager from Star Trek) where folks get together and play different tabletop games.

It is usually pretty funny, and you get an idea how the game would be to play.

[flipper35]

Stop Thief is another good one.

[74-911]

From age 10 or so and up just plain old dominoes is our go to game....