Coffee Table Games
Phil Taylor
United States
Maplewood
New Jersey
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Games that look good set out on your coffee table. Must have "chunky" bits preferably wooden or brightly colored, with a high piece density. This list was "lifted" from two discussions on spielfrieks. Thanks to Scott Nicholson and Mark Johnson for the idea,
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Phil Taylor
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Maplewood
New Jersey
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Board Game: Quarto!
[Average Rating:6.80 Overall Rank:565]
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Maplewood
New Jersey
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Board Game: Saturn
[Average Rating:6.68 Overall Rank:2306]
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Board Game: Batik
[Average Rating:6.00 Overall Rank:2818]
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Board Game: Ido
[Average Rating:5.82 Overall Rank:4112]
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Maplewood
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Art deco
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Board Game: Medina
[Average Rating:7.09 Overall Rank:338]
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Maplewood
New Jersey
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Colored wood!
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Board Game: Arbos
[Average Rating:6.28 Overall Rank:2380]
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Board Game: Pueblo
[Average Rating:6.89 Overall Rank:489]
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Maplewood
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Board Game: 90 Grad
[Average Rating:6.18 Unranked]
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Board Game: Quixo
[Average Rating:6.11 Overall Rank:2559]
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Board Game: Pylos
[Average Rating:6.39 Overall Rank:1444]
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Board Game: Aztec
[Average Rating:6.63 Overall Rank:3765]
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Issaquah
Washington
The Goldsieber Wood games: Cabale, Caprice, Siesta.
90 grande (Holzinsel has many other wood games http://www.holzinsel.de/ ), most of the Kadon stuff, like The game of Y, Several Gigamic titles, like Gobbler (Note Gigamic also publishes larger versions of their game which look better on coffee tables.
If some plastic is OK Abalone & Kuba look first rate. Kaliko is one of the best looking games out there.
More places to look: http://www.gerhards-holzwaren.de/ or http://www.holzbrettspiele.de/ German publishers of wooden abstract games.
Crokinole can't forget.
And someone will have to help me here, there is a Wood version of Twixt published in Austria, that looks great, but I've lost the pointer.
On my coffee table. A game not list on the geek, Bollox ( http://www.abstractstrategy.com/bollox.html).
Next we need the "Coffee table game of coffee table games", by that other Krammer (Kosmo Krammer)
Lexington
Virginia
http://www.toy-net.ch/felsberger/spiele.htm
It's a lousy photo of the board, and not a very complimentary photo of Alex Randolph either, but it's a very classy set, wood framed stainless steel (or some other metal) surface with indents for marbles and rods. Probably about $300 US dollars not counting shipping.
If you hang out on eBay long enough, you may find hand crafted wood game sets for sale. There were some very nice 11x11 wood Hex sets there some years ago.
Of course there are also very classy looking Go and Shogi table top sets, also in the $300 price range, if not considerably higher. You could probably get a decent set for $100, though.
Falls Church
Virginia
I would recommend adding Axiom to the list - I just got this one in and it looks fabulous (I got the older '88 edition). Also, Hive might be one to consider - the photos I have seen of it look wonderful. Two others I haven't played, but look beautiful are Taino and Proteus.
Question - Can you get English rules for FlippEx mentioned by Peter Loop?
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
Nice list - I`ll look out for some of them.
Snohomish
Washington