Most of my gaming experiences have tended to be with my brothers with the traditional hex and counter variety conflict games. However I have played We The People with my mother and she seemed to genuinely enjoy it, although whether it's a card game or boardgame is difficult to say. To say one gender likes one form of game type over another is of course a generalisation, but trends can be discerned. I doubt if many women gamers would go for Advanced Squad Leader for instance.

I know my wife has a definite preference for card games, but I think that's because that is what she played with her family in her "formative" years.

I find that women players tend to prefer lighter games on average. More card games fall into that category than boardgames.

My wife prefers anything that allows her to laugh over my violent demise.

I did suspect a favouring for card games, but not always because they're lighter. Take bridge for instance!

It seems that generally women don't go for games with conflict as much as male gamers. I've lost count of the times that I'v read people say "My wife won't play Babel because it's so confrontational" Although having said that my 62 year old mother enjoys a bit of the counter terrorist computer game Rogue Spear!

Do men prefer card or board games?

How dare you try to generalize what all "women" want! I am outraged! Every woman is an individual, each managing a unique and effective arsenal of weapons to drive all males in adjacent squares completely insane. It is this variety that we must treasure!

I used to prefer board games, but I'm liking card games more and more these days. Maybe the ease of play and unpredictability of cards are what appeal.

I like boardgames more, but I think you cannot generalize. For example: I definitely want to try a wargame, but my significant other doesn't want them in our home.

Yes, I'm a girl...

Ann

My take is that it's an unanswerable question -- or not answerable in any meaningful or interesting way.

Basically, male geeks who make these generalization seem to be guys whose male gaming partners have been chosen based on common tastes in games. By contrast, some (if not all) of the women they game with aren't gamers and have been chosen as friends/playmates based on other attributes. Small wonder then that the women in question have different tastes in games than the guys in question. But that's less a matter of gender differences than the different ways the two samples were selected.

Personally, I think that the board/card game distinction is blurry and don't have a categorical preference either way. Depends on the game.

That right there is how you get your wife into games... find something that gives her the opportunity to pound you into the ground, and she'll start looking for other games in which she can demolish you.

Have to agree that the question is hard if not impossible to answer. Without going down the path of generalization

It would be the same to ask if men prefer beer more than whiskey or something like that??!?!

My wife like every game I own (we own).
I don't know any games she dislike and won't play.

Hmmm...maybe those games (few) where I crush her all the time

Ahh, you're married too... :rimshot:

Who cares what women like to play. Who wants to play games with women anyway. And poker too! Let them play Bunko and Scrapbooking.

I think you're missing the point. Women, being the verbal creatures that they are, tend to love word games over other gamers. It doesnt matter if it's a card game or a board game as long as it has something to do with language or words. Now, I'm not implying that they DON'T like other games, but they seem to prefer language based games.

This is getting a strange discussion, with mainly man stating things. I think I basically like EVERY game, as long as there is not too much luck involved. I do play Lost Cities though.

Most girls and boys I play with like the same games, anyway, they have too, as they come to my house and play with MY games

I don't think there is a 'standard' woman game geek.

Ann

My wife loves card games, boardgames, and wargames equally.

She'll just as easily kick your ass in Killer Bunnies, A House Divided, Risk Godstorm, or Rommel in the Desert.

And I'll play virtually anything once, just to see if I do enjoy it or not.

Why do men believe that most women either abhor games or generally stick to one kind of game or another (and usually it's something trite, too)? I'm almost ashamed at my brother's out there in Geekdom, acting sexist and all.

Join the rest of humanity in the 21st century!

Uh, it's because of about 95% of what I've read on the internet about women not liking wargames. Guess I should take it with a pinch of salt. I've never been part of gaming group with any women, as I said my gaming past is mainly Avalon Hill with my brothers in the 1970s. It's only in the last few months that I've wanted to return to board games after a quarter of a century.

That is what is wrong with male gamers. That is why women don't want to play with some guys. Most have attitudes like that. You walk up to gamers and they already don't think you will play or can play because you have breast much less if you are remotely attractive.


Well, I have to admit. I scrapbook and cross stitch. But, with this debate. . . Wanna play Rommel with me? Let's see what kind of competitor a woman can be.



Okay, yes. I am a verbal creature but I think that has to do more with my individual person rather than being female. I actually don't like word type games. I like more strategy type games, wargames being my top game. I do not like Lost Cities. It is not my thing. Hera and Zeus is one of my favorite games because like alot of card games they are great for two players.



I think what my husband meant was, his wife does not like to be generalized and told that she does not like wargames. Yes the vast majority does not like wargames but saying women do not like wargames is too pretentious.

I understand the reason for this forum but the discussion was getting pretty insulting. There is no wonder why women are not in your gaming groups.

At least he does not need to care about people feeling insulted for nothing in his game sessions.

More little girls will look longer at a human human face than little boys, More little boys wll look longer at a mechanical mobile.

Little boys have tested to enjoy looking at maps more.

Cambridge University discovered this when studying autism.

Let that cloud your impressions.

It's funny - right when I first saw the title of this thread, I thought to myself "No, I'm pretty sure women prefer the 'What the H#!! Kind of Crack Is That!?' Game", but then I figured "Man, that's exactly the kind of line you wanna hold out on until after somebody else has stepped in it"...

Soo, did I wait long enough?

Not all women are against games... I like all sorts of games... I think the only type of game that I HAVEN'T played is war games, and I am willing to try them, but when we have a good length of time to play... There are games that I enjoy more than others, but isn't that what everyone says... I have been to Origins twice, PrezCon (and won the Bohnanza tournament), Game Days and have a twice weekly game sessions... Along with getting my family to play games whenever I can... That doesn't include the Werewolf games that I play and mod... Or the gaming sessions at home with my husband...

Barb Flaxington won Puerto Rico at last year's WBC. The year before that she won Tikal. I guess those games reminded her of cross-stitching or something?

Why are men such idiots sometimes? The very existence of this thread is offensive. I apologize on behalf of my gender, ladies.