OK I bit the bullet and renamed and updated this list. It is now a list of games that are waiting to be played at our house (well excluding many old wargames that aren't likely to be played soon). For a game to be considered to be played it must be played face to face and the logging of the play must have occurred since late 2003, which was when I started logging plays on BGG. Some of these games were played prior to that cutoff date, some of them a lot of times, but they don't count for this list.
With two small children (
six eight nine and
onethreefour), we generally can only find time for the two player games, for those requiring more players finding time is a little bit harder - however we do manage it occasionally, we probably manage to get game playing adults over on average once a fortnight.
My adjusted yardstick is at least two plays before it gets marked as
Played, because for non-trivial games the first play is usually just a learning game.
Now using
Played,
F Played and
M Played depending on both played, Fraser has played or Melissa has played.
The list is in no particular order and could be considered by some to be a little esoteric.
We're interested in suggestions of which we should try next and also how many times any particular game should be played to get a decent feel for how good or bad the game is and to have a decent idea of how to play it.
14-Feb-2004 - Renamed list and made significant modifications to the items it may be a bit "under construction" for a while. This has probably sent a few comments that other kind people had added to the original version of the list down to Davy Jones' locker - sorry.
21-Feb-2004
Added details of companion list. now removed as it was not being updated.
18-Mar-2004 Added Mutiny
05-Apr-2004 Removed Ninja Burger, updated age of daughter the younger, added Age of Steam expansion, Armada and Puerto Rico comments.
17-May-2004 Minor updates to some comments here and for Pirate's Cove and Puerto Rico.
24-May-2004 The slow boat from the USA arrived with Tigris & Euphrates, Amun Re and El Grande to add to the shelves.
05-Nov-2004 I really should update this more! Removed Pirate's Cove, Puerto Rico and Euphrat & Tigris and added Die Macher, Civilization and Finstere Flure.
14-Aug-2005 Removed Finster Flure, El Grande and Amun Re added Vinci, Monkeys on the Moon, Penguin Ultimatum and Lunar Rails
26-Feb-2007 Time for a bit of a revisit, revamp and revitalisation given the new GeekList system.
22-Jul-2007 Went though and added a bunch more
18-Aug-2007 It was ConVic 6 last week and there were some really good prices (I'm not even counting the games that we have played previously).
Posted Sat Feb 14, 2004 4:27 am
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Also, how old are your kids? Lately, I get games in mind for them more often than my wife or friends. The suggested ages on boxes aren't neccesarily accurate. For example, my 7 year old understood New England which says 12 & up.
My Debbie does humor me on occasion with the above games, so I can't complain. To return the favor I'd have to go to church or start crocheting, neither of which I have an aptitude for.
Oh, but to play Puerto Rico every night...and lose!
However, about a year ago we were invited over by one of her friends to play board games for an evening. I was prepared to be bored out of my mind playing something like Scrabble (which I hate). Instead I was pleasantly surprised to see that we would be playing Settlers of Catan. I had heard that it was a good game, but had never played it. I had a great time, and so did my wife. On the way home she told me that if I wanted to add that game to my collection she would approve. I bought it the next week and a whole new era in my gaming hobby life began.
I still play game with my gaming buddies (war games, fantasy games etc) but now I also play games on a regular basis with my wife and another couple we know. We mostly play Settlers, Carcassone (which my wife got as a gift for Christmas), History of the World and other non-wargame type games. However, I recently convinced them to try Risk 2210 and they seemed to like it. Its amazing how my wife's attitude on games changed completely simply because she found one that she liked.