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[tomlads15@gmail.com]

I will try any kind of board game no matter what genre . Also if there are tournaments for a game you may know let me know .

[pingpongsam]

I hear chutes and ladders brings some interesting psychology to the table.

[Kirian]

I hear chutes and ladders brings some interesting psychology to the table.

Bad Sam!

Recommendations are likely better found at Board Game Geek.

[GeoLib]

There's this cool game, Dominion, you might want to check out.

[GendoIkari]

A few of my non-Dominion favorites:

Kingsburg
Russian Railroads
Trajan
Terra Mystica
Temporum
Macao

[LastFootnote]

Man, I played Trajan once. It just felt like five or six games cobbled together by Mancala.

[GendoIkari]

Man, I played Trajan once. It just felt like five or six games cobbled together by Mancala.

It is. But at least 4 of those 6 games are good.

[jsh357]

It's hard giving recommendations with no info about what you/your group already likes.

[liopoil]

Chess is a nice game.

[LastFootnote]

Man, I played Trajan once. It just felt like five or six games cobbled together by Mancala.

It is. But at least 4 of those 6 games are good.

I guess I have a pre-existing bias against that sort of game. I call them "You play for 3 hours and then Ben wins" games. I have a friend named Ben, you see, and he plays a lot of board games. And whenever we play a game where there's a VP track around the edge of the board, he wins. It's frustrating because these are the kinds of games that take 30-45 minutes to explain the rules, 2-4 hours to play, and then Ben wins. Pretty much all worker placement games fall into this category, but Trajan does as well. At this point I'm just spoiled by Donald X games that take literally 5 minutes to explain and 30 minutes to play.

[DG]

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ is a good site to find out about games more generally. Most the games that are recommended on these forums are also going to be popular on BGG.

[GendoIkari]

Man, I played Trajan once. It just felt like five or six games cobbled together by Mancala.

It is. But at least 4 of those 6 games are good.

I guess I have a pre-existing bias against that sort of game. I call them "You play for 3 hours and then Ben wins" games. I have a friend named Ben, you see, and he plays a lot of board games. And whenever we play a game where there's a VP track around the edge of the board, he wins. It's frustrating because these are the kinds of games that take 30-45 minutes to explain the rules, 2-4 hours to play, and then Ben wins. Pretty much all worker placement games fall into this category, but Trajan does as well. At this point I'm just spoiled by Donald X games that take literally 5 minutes to explain and 30 minutes to play.

For my group, we called those "Austin wins" games. But then Austin moved to California, so now I win sometimes.

[Ratsia]

For my group, we called those "Austin wins" games. But then Austin moved to California, so now I win sometimes.

Now the interesting question is: Do Austin and Ben win also if you play Dominion?

I mean, you probably win because of having played Dominion thousands of times, but did they initially win? My personal experience is that the local Austins and Bens win irrespective of the game (well, excluding dexterity games etc), which would imply it is not so much about the type of the game but about those guys just being better players in general. After having played some 500+ different games, I still struggle to find games those guys would not win notably more often than others. It's not about practice as such as I know also a lot of other people who have played thousands of hours in general, but I guess the good players just approach games somehow differently. Not even more seriously, but the right kind of thinking probably just happens automatically for them. It might be the same group that accidentally counts cards in card games, without paying conscious effort.

[Kirian]

For my group, we called those "Austin wins" games. But then Austin moved to California, so now I win sometimes.

Now the interesting question is: Do Austin and Ben win also if you play Dominion?

I mean, you probably win because of having played Dominion thousands of times, but did they initially win? My personal experience is that the local Austins and Bens win irrespective of the game (well, excluding dexterity games etc), which would imply it is not so much about the type of the game but about those guys just being better players in general. After having played some 500+ different games, I still struggle to find games those guys would not win notably more often than others. It's not about practice as such as I know also a lot of other people who have played thousands of hours in general, but I guess the good players just approach games somehow differently. Not even more seriously, but the right kind of thinking probably just happens automatically for them. It might be the same group that accidentally counts cards in card games, without paying conscious effort.

I have a convention friend who is exactly like this.  Alas, I only get to play a game with him a couple times a year, but he wins almost without fail.  Which is absolutely fine with me, I learn more that way!

[LastFootnote]

For my group, we called those "Austin wins" games. But then Austin moved to California, so now I win sometimes.

Now the interesting question is: Do Austin and Ben win also if you play Dominion?

I mean, you probably win because of having played Dominion thousands of times, but did they initially win? My personal experience is that the local Austins and Bens win irrespective of the game (well, excluding dexterity games etc), which would imply it is not so much about the type of the game but about those guys just being better players in general. After having played some 500+ different games, I still struggle to find games those guys would not win notably more often than others. It's not about practice as such as I know also a lot of other people who have played thousands of hours in general, but I guess the good players just approach games somehow differently. Not even more seriously, but the right kind of thinking probably just happens automatically for them. It might be the same group that accidentally counts cards in card games, without paying conscious effort.

He wins Dominion sometimes. I win it more often. Sometimes someone else at the table wins. He gets really terrible shuffle luck in Dominion, or claims to. I mean maybe he sets himself up for it sometimes, but he's a good player. Anyway, there's at least one data point for him not just straight-up being better at all games. It certainly helps that there is an element of luck in Dominion, but it's mostly that we play it a lot, so other players get good enough to beat him sometimes. I do not play "And Then Ben Wins" games enough to get good at them, nor do I care to.

[GendoIkari]

For my group, we called those "Austin wins" games. But then Austin moved to California, so now I win sometimes.

Now the interesting question is: Do Austin and Ben win also if you play Dominion?

I mean, you probably win because of having played Dominion thousands of times, but did they initially win? My personal experience is that the local Austins and Bens win irrespective of the game (well, excluding dexterity games etc), which would imply it is not so much about the type of the game but about those guys just being better players in general. After having played some 500+ different games, I still struggle to find games those guys would not win notably more often than others. It's not about practice as such as I know also a lot of other people who have played thousands of hours in general, but I guess the good players just approach games somehow differently. Not even more seriously, but the right kind of thinking probably just happens automatically for them. It might be the same group that accidentally counts cards in card games, without paying conscious effort.

Austin was never very good at Dominion or other similar games; not compared to the way he was with other ones anyway. Then again, Dominion is a game that I'm only good at because I spent hundreds of hours reading these forums and playing games on Iso. Hard to say how good I would be if not for that.

But, after Austin left, jonts joined our group, so now I have very little chance to win at Dominion.

[AdamH]

He gets really terrible shuffle luck in Dominion, or claims to.

uhh, I thought I had something relevant to say about this, but I forgot.

Anyways, I was recently asked what my top 5 favorite tabletop games are right now, so without any information about what kind of games you like, I'll just spew that here:

1. Dominion
2. Agricola
3. Modern Art (not the current version, the one that's out of print. The new version that you can buy now is terrible)
4. Hanabi
5. Power Grid

[jsh357]

oh boy, lists!!!  Here's mine!

1. Dominion
2. Hanabi
3. Innovation
4. Temporum
5. Seasons

[A Drowned Kernel]

I played Temporum for the first time last night and couldn't recommend it more.

[Ozle]

1: The Secret of the Castle
2: Dracula was my Daddy
3: Rules of the Known World
4: More Tea Vicar?
5: MICE! Wont somebody do something about those MICE!

[Voltaire]

More blind recommendations that are really just five games I'm playing a lot right now!

1. Temporum
2. Sentinels of the Multiverse
3. Machi Koro + Harbor exp.
4. 7 Wonders
5. Splendor

[Grujah]

Some of my favourites (Dominion excluded):

A Game of Thrones (if and only if you can find 5 other diehards*, otherwise it is no good)
Battlestar Galactica
Lords of Waterdeep
Smallworld
Mansion of Madness

(*not necesarily show/book diehard, but somebody who is willing to play very serious, cutthroat, heavily focus on diplomacy/strategy etc, and not play casually)

some lighter ones:
Duck Duck Go
Dixit

If you don't mind LCG Aspect:
Android: Netrunner


If you want the tourney aspect, Magic: the Gathering of course

[Kirian]

1: The Secret of the Castle
2: Dracula was my Daddy
3: Rules of the Known World
4: More Tea Vicar?
5: MICE! Wont somebody do something about those MICE!

Why does this post not have more upvotes?

[popsofctown]

I find it astounding how big the quality gap is between Dominion and the next runner up is, provided you're excluding MtG on the basis of its affordability.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

He gets really terrible shuffle luck in Dominion, or claims to.

uhh, I thought I had something relevant to say about this, but I forgot.

Anyways, I was recently asked what my top 5 favorite tabletop games are right now, so without any information about what kind of games you like, I'll just spew that here:

1. Dominion
2. Agricola
3. Modern Art (not the current version, the one that's out of print. The new version that you can buy now is terrible)
4. Hanabi
5. Power Grid

I see what you did there, but I don't see what you did there, and my Enigma machine is in storage. ymyosl?