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Drakolith Funditor Offline Posts: 675 U.S.	Board/card game recommendations? Jun 17^th, 2017 at 5:53pm I've been looking for some new board/card type games to play when friends come to hang out. Any suggestions? (Omitting the classics like chess and checkers and such of course)
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Elwin Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 10 Gender:	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #1 - Jun 17^th, 2017 at 10:28pm Sushi Go Party is a short and fun game to play with a nice variety of rules and ways to play. Also, Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne are fun.
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Reply #2 - Jun 17^th, 2017 at 11:30pm

For card games I like hearts. Turbo Hearts is great if you can get people that know hearts well enough to play it. Euchre as well. Settlers of Catan is decent. My favorite board game ever is called Star Wars Epic Duels. Havent played it in years but it was alot of fun. Good luck getting one though. They are a collectors item now. I used to really enjoy chess but havent played it for awhile. Risk is another good one if you have enough competetive people. There are many out there. These days I prefer video games though so dont remember alot of them.

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Reply #3 - Jun 18^th, 2017 at 9:10am

I'm currently playing mice and mystics, a cooperative adventure board game.
For many others that i like I actually don't know the english translation.
One is "Eile mit Weile" (Parcheesi?) and "Brändi Dog" (a variant with cards instead of dice).

Otherwise I really enjoy card games like Jass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jass and all its variants (Schieber, Coiffeur, Sackjass, Bieter...). If you are a couple people I recommend Molotow. Like the name implies it is a rather destructive variant of the Jass. Be assured, at the end of the game everyone hates everyone Wink

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13680 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #4 - Jun 23^rd, 2017 at 5:04pm Risk is a pretty good game. I modified it so that no matter how many times one gets cards you can't get more than 20 armies or else the game can go on forever. I made several other modifications to make the game much better and more fun. If you're interested I can elaborate.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #5 - Jun 23^rd, 2017 at 6:19pm Please do RM. Also, have you tried secret mission Risk?
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2598 Australia Gender:	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #6 - Jul 14^th, 2017 at 6:31am Stratego is a good board game for 2 players, a capture the flag battle game with a touch of luck and memory .
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perpetualstudent Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1405 Gender:	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #7 - Jul 14^th, 2017 at 4:19pm Are you by any chance Swiss Teg?
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Tomas Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2172	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #8 - Jul 18^th, 2017 at 10:05pm Cards against humanity, scrabble, sociables and wiss
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Reply #9 - Jul 19^th, 2017 at 7:38am

perpetualstudent wrote on Jul 14^th, 2017 at 4:19pm:

Are you by any chance Swiss Teg?

Sorry, I'm a bit late with my answer. Yes, that's correct. It's hard to hide with such a local / traditional selection of games Wink

If you want to know even more exactly where I come from, I can tell you that I play with the Swiss-French deck. If you combine that with the knowledge about my native language, which you can also find in the forum, you are able to pinpoint my origin to only a couple of cantons.

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Reply #10 - Jul 21^st, 2017 at 1:43pm

Indeed Teg Grin

I'm not far from New Glarus in WI and they are the only people I know in the States that keep playing Jass. Though I've run into a handful of midwestern shooting clubs that still do Swiss Shooting Matches. Maybe they play Jass when they're not shooting.

A US version of that kind of regional game is Sheepshead. Mainly a WI thing, much less in other states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepshead_(game)

In the Midwest in general Rummy is big. And good heavens are there variations of rummy. Several named for states in the midwest.

More current suggestions include Munchkin which is delightfully cut-throat and humorous. It'd be worth browsing the German Board Game Awards. Board games are bigger over there and they pick good ones. Mensa also has some board game awards worth browsing.

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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #11 - Jul 21^st, 2017 at 3:12pm If you're wanting to go real old school, I suggest Hnefatafl. Played by the Vikings and basically, at its simplest, uneven chess. Really quite tactical and a great game if you can get a good opponent. I made my own board and pieces but getting willing players is my problem.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #12 - Jul 21^st, 2017 at 4:07pm I used to play Nine Mens Morris quite a bit. Its easy to learn but difficult to master. You can get an app to play people online but theres a lot of ringers that play and its rough going early on. Still fun though!
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Reply #13 - Jul 21^st, 2017 at 4:08pm

New Glarus? I had no idea that there is a second version of this town Grin

. It's literally once over the mountain from where I grew up. Pereptualstudent, I guess we are neighbours Grin

From the German Board Game Awards (Here's the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiel_des_Jahres ) I can especially recommend Dixit, Carcassonne and Scotland Yard.
All are quite different. Scotland Yard is a team strategy game, Carcassone a single player strategy game and Dixit is a "talking" game.

I'm looking forward to try Munchkin once. I've heard many times of this game but never had the opportunity to try it.

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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2598 Australia Gender:	Re: Board/card game recommendations? Reply #14 - Jul 21^st, 2017 at 5:43pm I played nine men's Morris while living in Germany , great game
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