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Donald X.

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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #50 on: November 02, 2012, 02:51:21 am »
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I am worse; I printed a home made B&W version :P
Dude, I did the same thing.
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #51 on: November 02, 2012, 06:12:30 am »
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My board game collection is embarrassingly small.
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #52 on: November 02, 2012, 06:50:19 am »
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My percentage of games owned actually played is embarrassingly small.  :-[
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #53 on: November 04, 2012, 06:04:33 pm »
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I am worse; I printed a home made B&W version :P
Dude, I did the same thing.
I bet you've got a bootleg copy of Kingdom Builder stuck on some cardboard too, you rebel.
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #54 on: November 08, 2012, 04:09:23 pm »
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Games I own:
Dominion (except for Alchemy and Prosperity): Obviously awesome.
Twilight Struggle: It is really good, but it's hard to find time and someone to play against.
Puerto Rico: This was probably the first board game I got really into. In university my friends would play this game constantly.
Carcassonne: It's good, but it usually comes down to the farmers. I've heard some of the expansions deal with my complaints, but I've never investigated.
Settlers of Cataan: I almost never play it anymore.
Brass: It's a little long, but it's actually a really well designed game. It's so dedicated to accurately representing this portion of history and in spite of that it's still fun and balanced.
Kill Dr. Lucky: Basically a prequel to Clue. I have the old Cheap Ass version. It's okay for a few rounds, it's certainly funny, but it gets a little repetitive once people get a hang of the strategy.
Blokus Trigon: I prefer this to the original Blokus. I think the geometry of triangles makes it better. It's fun, but not everyone gets into this super abstract type of game.
Pandemic: I prefer, but do not have the space for Arkham Horror, but this is okay if you want to play something cooperative. Suffers from the fact that you could play it by yourself.
Innovation (with expansion): Innovation is fun, but incredibly swingy. The expansion makes an already complicated game much more complex. I wouldn't bother with it, but the original is neat and I love the physical design of the game.
Aquaretto: If you were put off by Zooloretto, this game takes all the problems of Zooloretto and fixes them. It's a drafting game combined with a space management game combined with running an aquarium.
Chess, Backgammon, Crib: My favourite of the classics.
Pente: A simple, but deep game played on a Go board.
Galaxy Trucker: Crazy and fun. Really swingy, but it's so chaotic and the theme is so fun, that I never seem to mind.
Scrabble: I don't play it much, but I do like this game. It's a classic.
Bananagrams: All the fun word knowledge of Scrabble with the space control game removed. There's greatly accelerated gameplay. I would recommend this to anyone.
Dixit: A good game for non gamers. Pick it up if you're looking for an alternative to Apples to Apples.
Power Grid: I'm sure you've heard of it. Drafting, auctioning, resource management, expansion. It's got a lot of great things. It's better with more people, but my biggest complaint would be that rules are finicky. I have never played it without having to dig through its rule book. 

Stuff I'd like to add:
-Eclipse
-Cosmic Encounter (thanks Axxle!)
-Nefarious
-Ticket to Ride
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #55 on: November 08, 2012, 11:52:02 pm »
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Starting with most often played
Dominion (Isotropic)
Boerenbridge (up and down the river)
Gin Rummy
Backgammon
Spy alley
Settlers of Catan
The resistance
Quirkle
Pentago
Quoridor
Pass the bomb
Alhambra
Dixit
Puerto rico
Scrabble (anagram/anagrab)
Dominion (actual)
Honorable mention: 3-D connect 4

Bought but not yet played:
7 wonders
Order of the stick
Kingdom builder
Survive: Escape from atlantis

Never played anymore: (in no particular order)

Chess
Monopoly
Risk
Munchkin (various)
Pandemic
Citadels
Bang
Apples to apples
Skybridge
Fluxx
Mastermind
Zooloretto
Magical athlete (still fun!)
Texas hold'em
Nuts!
Carcassone
Ticket to ride
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #56 on: November 09, 2012, 12:05:10 am »
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Isotropic wins by a long margin because of the sheer replayability
Games can be intensely strategic and last only 3 minutes...
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #57 on: November 09, 2012, 08:44:08 am »
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Carcassonne: It's good, but it usually comes down to the farmers. I've heard some of the expansions deal with my complaints, but I've never investigated.

Farmers have been changed to be worth only 3 points per completed city instead of 4.

I've only played it a couple of times since that rule was changed. I can't say that I noticed a huge difference, but I believe it's there.
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Re: Whats in your Board game collection?
« Reply #58 on: November 09, 2012, 10:59:50 pm »
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All the dominion expansions (and dominion)

A copy of Ticket to Ride I found for 10 bucks because the box was slightly damaged

Therapy: the game, which I got as a jokey gift, and is not a terrible game if you were just teleported here from the 80s.


It's tough for me to buy something if I don't know 100% I'll get a ton of use out of it, and currently these along with a deck of cards is generally enough. At some point I'll buy Mr. Jack, though I'm not sure when.
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