"Now, Ticket to Ride is the apex of board gaming complexity. You want to hook your non-gamers in with ASL, or Civilisation first, before working through War!Age of Imperialism (Although as that is the current no.3, some would say you should stop there) and maybe Magic the Gathering, building up further with Candyland or, if you don't like the Inuit theme, War. Then they might be ready for Ticket to Ride. Just don't mistake it for 'another dirigible game'. This one has depth."

I can't believe that some people continue to call this a dirigible game. Any game that does not include wind currents and management of hydrogen resources has no business being mentioned on the same web page as Age of Prop or Blimp Tycoon.

IMHO.

This game is totally fun.

"Kobra87, you're in the minority here. Quit going on about how wonderful this game and accept that it will never be more than a highbrow concern."

Boa, what a boaring game: collecting cards of the same colour and then doing some placing-action.
Easy to learn but so boaring. Played it twice and sold it

"At least there isn't one set among the Inuit"
"Or using dirigbles- no wait they already have 4 squares which reference those..."

I'm so happy that Tom Jolly finally managed to wrestle back the rights to this game from those morons at Fantasy Flight Games.

That hurts... my no.1 game at the moment.

Just picked up Hasbro's Star Wars edition of Tigris and Euphrates! Lots of fun.

I mean... it's cool, TaE and Star Wars, if you like those sorts of things. Of course, it's based on the sequel trilogy (VII, VII, and IX). The Spectre of Sidious card might be a little unbalanced; but the Solo Twins and Wookie Revenge counters are pretty sweet.

Can't wait for the SAGA edition next spring.

(I wonder if Lucas will ever get around to making the first three episodes?)

I think it was a mistake to use the 'least points in colour you have the most points in' scoring system. It creates too much focus on Red points. I don't know, some other system seems to be possible, any ideas?

But at least we know that Reiner is "one of us" - fat, T-shirt-wearing & bearded.

I've got blisters on my thumbs from playing this on the PS3. I just live for the exploding temples.

I like this one...

The worker strategy is totally broken. But the game works fine if you just don't use your workers.

Yeah using too many workers causes unrest points to be taken,m which in turn provides a greater chance for the Marx doctrine to start, next thing you have is War I tell you - down out right Communist revolution....

...and then the castle never gets built.

My favorite first person shooter.

better...

"...my wife will play".

better...

"...my girlfriend will play".

best:
"will get me some play?"

Awsemest:

"...anyone to play"

This is one of my favorite multiplayer games. I can play it with all my wives.

Ow, ow, ow, my side hurts!

Well, the only reason you see so many of this in thrift stores is because it's so light and fluffy.

This highly secretive board game depict German Politics as it might have been...had the Allies defeated the Nazis. Merely tallking about it is likely to get you interned by the Gestapo...

This is the only game that actually captures the pathos experienced on the job every day by the average Hinterbankler.

You can always use the bits to turn Tic-Tac-Toe into a 5 or six player game. We haven't done it (would you really want to?), but I did replace some of my lost Tic-Tac-Toe bits.

So close. Sooooo close! This one broke the spell of believablilty. ;-)

If only!

Everone knows what TV is, especially since it is on twenty-four hours a day by law but what is "game"?

"I Know Settlers is a 4000 year old German game with a venerable history that takes a lifetime to learn. The handicapping system is much praised and the idea of playing on a 9-hex board and then working up to 19 Hexes is also interesting. But frankly it is too dry and abstract for my tastes- I prefer the all time Chinese family game, which hasn't aged a bit since it first came out 10 years ago- Go."

the German Monopoly... i love waiting for other people to roll dice, nothing better...

Does anybody know anything about this game? I can't seem to find out anything about it anywhere. Is it out of print? None of my 40-something married German friends have ever heard of it.

"Yes, maybe we Germans would be the ones making the 'American-style' games, instead of churning out so many wargames and dice-fests."

War Wheel? LMAO! You gotta love a Blackhawks reference.

The vibrating bame board is such a novel idea. I love watching the armies move around. It's like they're moving on their own. So realistic.

"oh come now... the last thing we need is someone starting the old Nazitrash/Amerie debate again.."

"Well, at least the HMS Habbakuk put up a valiant fight against all those Type XI-B U-Cruisers..."

Busen Memo but with Man-boobs!

"Imagine how much worse this game would be WITHOUT those little black bars!"

It reflects the ehlightenment of a culture when even game companies are accomodating to the blind. What a great game!

...and all this time I thought they were those new-fangled scratch'n'sniff things...





I so totally did not see ths one coming I nearly fell of my chair laughing.
However, it is scary when you think about it....

Wonder if there'd be a market for this. I could make it and become rich. And my mommy would be so proud of me.

"Personally I think ASL is overrated as a gateway game- Civilisation is better for drawing people into the hobby"

Not sure about the end of game scoring on this one

Friggin' Trix boxes my ass.

Yeah, you get the Trix box.

Then you have to have the Count Chocula box..

Then you have to have the Rice Krispies box..

Then you have to have the goddamn out of print Ralston Oatmeal Cookie Crisp box...

Then you have to have the Baron von Redberry box...

Then....

This game is stupid. Human beings at war? What a joke! What a fantasy! Well, gotta go. Don't want to be late for the International Ungame Tournament.

I agree - who could possibly encompass the depth of WW2 tactics in only one page of rules?

It should have been more like that Steve Jackson classic "10,000 Page Bulge". Now THAT'S a WW2 game, and full worth the small fortune it cost.

"The best game that will ever be made! Two thumbs up!" -- Joe Steadman (with a goatee)

Did you know that this game has petitioned to actually become a state?

Puerto Rico: all the benefits of the 51st state with out those pesky taxes...

get your hands off my cash i'm gonna buy a factory and put these lazy brown discs to work *whip crack*

Not to mention how good this game gets after you purchase the Robot and Lizardmen expansion!

The robots can do the work of the colonists twice as fast, which lets you feed them to the Lizardmen, whom you have to fend off the tourists!

Only works if you have enough Quarrys though.....

I still say the colonists are really slaves. Just look at the pieces. They're PINK and if you look close enough you can see the freckles.

Richard Berg has developed yet another elegant and compelling design.

duckweed nails it right on the head!

Richard Berg is the Eurogame designer of the wargaming world: any relationship his games have to actual history are purely coincidental.

I haven't played this one, but is it as good as Nero (another Berg's design and a great one to boot)?

I know it's silly but I was just thinking that if Nathan Borg had the same first name people might get them mixed up sometimes.

Oh, yes, IT CAN! Monopoly 2210 is every Monopoly player's dream come true: More properties. New rules for the Utilies and their "Energy" points. Special Civic Leaders such as The Developer, the Civil Engineer, The Tax Assessor, The Entreprenuer, and the Mayor. ...And the game goes no longer than FIVE turns!

*shiver*

Darkies In The Melon Patch on steroids.

I am so sick of hearing all you fanboys go on and on about how great this game is. You'd think it was the only game around. They should rename BoardGameGeek to MonopolyGeek. Sheesh!

There's a GeekList the other day that dealt with fights games have started - thenk god that could NEVER happen with Monopoly. A fine family game if I ever saw one, suitable for playing with siblings and having nothing but fun (kind of like "Sorry!", the game where you apologize sincerely for inconveniencing the other players).