Boardgames Galore
Boardgames rule and I love discovering new ones.
I played The Settlers Of Catan game with my doppelganger (and 2 others) back in college, and haven’t played it since then, until last night. It’s everything I remember and more. Some highlights:
a randomly-created gameboard every time you play, a heavy player interaction element concerning trading, multiple angles you can take to victory, and the humor in offering “sheep” in a trade.
This is one of my favorite games now, up there with Scrabble.
What are some of your favorite classic games? Any obscure games that we should know about?
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Loooooove Settlers of Catan (otherwise known as “sheep”). Jeff has a knew game based on the King Arthur legend that was absurdly fun. We played it last time Big Bill was down from Boston. We also played Family Business which, despite actually being a card game and not a board game, is still absurdly fun.
I’m always always up for a game of Stratego and I really don’t get to play it enough. Same goes for Risk (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or original). But the one game I pretty much would always rather be playing is chess.
scrabble will always be numero uno.
trivial pursuit is still riding high up there.
and i will challenge anyone to a game of either.
My brother and I played Stratego a lot as kids. I haven’t played since then, though.
I played a game the other night called “Do you worship Cthulu?” It’s pretty much a game based on lies and murder. Cards are dealt out, and most of them are these villager cards. But there are other cards as well, such as the seer card, the vigilante card, and the worshipper card. These are the only pieces of the game. The person running the game then commands everyone to fall asleep (by just covering your eyes). The special player cards wake up in a pre-set order, and then return to sleep. The worshippers job is to just kill someone. The seer gets to point to someone and find out whether or not s/he is the worshipper. The vigilante gets to kill someone as well, but it is their job to attempt to kill the worshipper. All of this is done silently and in secret. Then, everyone wakes up to find one or two people dead. Then, the entire village gets to discuss who they think the worshipper is, and hold a vote. The winner (or LOSER!!) of the vote is then lynched and killed. If it was not the worshipper, they cycle repeats again until the worshipper is killed, or there are 3 players left and one of them is the worshipper.
Great fun, but needs a lot of people to play.
Jeff, that game is better known as “mafia” (with very slight variations to the rules) and it’s the game I was trying to convince you guys to play last time I was over! We need to play!
Hahahaha, Jeff that is ridiculous that it’s called “Do You Worship Cthulu?” I’ve played that game before but it was called “Mafia” and there were citizens, mafia, and detectives. It’s quite fun but you require outgoing players.
I bet Roccia is somehow involved in the name/rules change.
No, it’s actually a real live game you can buy!
That’s such bullshit! That’s like selling tag or jailbreak in a fucking box!
they sell tag in a spray can, not a box
HEYOOOOOO!
You spelled it wrong.
John said:That’s such bullshit! That’s like selling tag or manhunt in a fucking box!
There you go.