I'm a dad who plays board games with his
8yo 9yo 10yo 11yo son. My preference is for medium-heavy hard thinking games, and my son likes random Take That! games. I don't like to force my preferences on him, but I also don't want to play his games all the time. I also game with my 5 year old nephew quite a bit, which can be a challenge - at least he likes Cartagena.
My girlfriend Scrabblette is learning how to play games and she's much better at it than she thinks.
Now, before Aldie and Derk start calling me and asking a heap of questions, I'd just like to give them what they're after.
Favourite 1 Player Game: Roads and Boats
Favourite 2 Player Game: Scrabble
Favourite 3 Player Game: Settlers of Catan
Favourite 4 Player Game: Trias
Favourite 5 Player Game: Rheinlander
Favourite 6 Player Game: Mystery of the Abbey
Favourite 7+ Player Game: Saboteur
By the way, I run a program which downloads data from BGG and makes up all sorts of other metrics. If you're into stats, take a look at:
http://friendless.servegame.org/stats/If you want to be part of it, send me a message and I can add you in.
My previous service provider, 5gbfree.com, has become unreliable so I dumped them. That's opposed to 1111mb.com and 9999mb.com which were always unreliable :-). I was at peekle.net which is administered by a BGG user and hence was very reliable, but then I realised that it used less network bandwidth to host the data on my own machine, so I'm hosting at home now.
My favourite web comic is XKCD: A webcomic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.
http://www.xkcd.com/ I'm Friendless on gamerz.net. I'm interested in playing Yavalath and not sure what else yet - I don't know if I really like PBM.
