Board Games

[adelaideblue]

yep Masterpiece still a favourite that and Wembley - best game of all time. Been playing sequence lately thats very good

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Bought Ticket to Ride for christmas. Really good according to a thread I read on here a few years ago.

I was thinking of getting that, but these posh games are so expensive.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Got a bit of a love hate relationship with boardgames..we had 2 main ones in our house.
Scrabble is great, you get your own little pew or whatever it is to nestle your too many vowels on and you have to let all the other players know how bad your letters are (I think that's in the rules) yet without saying what they actually are (might not be in the rules, but it's at least bad etiquette)
There is also a bag, and most of the conversation is about passing the bag around. Where's the bag!? The downside is people just put S's on the end of words which is infuriating! I go and put Qualm down, and then someone puts an S on the end, they didn't even have to think up the world Qualm, probably didn't even think it was a real word, but they'll gladly put an S on the end and get more points than i got.
Monopoly, I like the pieces, especially the dog, my mum would always be the iron. I guess because she was the main ironer in the house.

Get revenge by learning every acceptable two letter word and hooking longer words onto them. There are more acceptable ones in the King’s English than in US English too.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Bought Ticket to Ride for christmas. Really good according to a thread I read on here a few years ago.

I think it's good, fairly straightforward and easy to understand.

The choice of map can make a difference - USA is easiest, I think. Europe is a bit tougher with some additional features, but perfectly playable.

 

[MadchesterCity]

I think it's good, fairly straightforward and easy to understand.

The choice of map can make a difference - USA is easiest, I think. Europe is a bit tougher with some additional features, but perfectly playable.

First time I seen this game, is it similar to monopoly?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

First time I seen this game, is it similar to monopoly?

No, not at all, it's not a linear track around the board - if you see something that looks like one on an image, that's the score tracker.

It's a mapboard with routes that each person in turn can claim a leg of using the number of pieces (carriages) on the map. You score by completing routes on cards in your hand - long routes score more but are harder/take longer. So for a UK map, Manchester-Birmingham would be a longer route than Manchester-Liverpool - it would take more pieces to complete, but score more.

The game ends when a player runs out of carriages to place on the map, and it's not a long game.

 

[MadchesterCity]

No, not at all, it's not a linear track around the board - if you see something that looks like one on an image, that's the score tracker.

It's a mapboard with routes that each person in turn can claim a leg of using the number of pieces (carriages) on the map. You score by completing routes on cards in your hand - long routes score more but are harder/take longer. So for a UK map, Manchester-Birmingham would be a longer route than Manchester-Liverpool - it would take more pieces to complete, but score more.

The game ends when a player runs out of carriages to place on the map, and it's not a long game.

I was meaning more about the purchase of property squares and aim being financial gain

 

[KS55]

When I was a kid, Monopoly was king. Then my kids reached a certain age and, bingo, Monopoly was king once more.
Hated Cluedo.

 

[mexico1970]

Trivial pursuit is the only board game I play, monopoly gets my teeth itching.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I was meaning more about the purchase of property squares and aim being financial gain

Still no then! There is no purchasing of anything or money