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Ask HN: Favorite board games?

6 pointsjoshuaxls18 comments

I find that most of the hackers I know tend to enjoy board games, especially designer board games. I thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone is playing. I'm always ready to pick up and learn a new game that's been recommended to me. Do you play? What games are your favorites? Any really obscure games that you like?

Currently my favorite game is Carcassonne. Other games I usually play are Ticket to Ride and Settlers (of course). I just bought Memoir '44 and am anxious to play my first game of it.

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Risk, Settlers of Catan, Puerto Rico

Someone just set up an Atlanta startup community board game night where we get startup-minded folks to play strategy board games like these once a quarter.

link?

I'm the one responsible for Atlanta Startup Game night. You can register here (Atlanta only people please):

http://grokventures.wufoo.com/forms/startup-games/

Although all the slots for the February game are already filled. I'm thinking about how to expand this out into other communities. First goal though is to figure out a model that works. Stay tuned!

Errr.. @ardell, I never said once a month! :-) I'm thinking once a quarter so we don't burn out on this event.

Risk is great. Does anyone know a good online community for Risk (i.e. where you can play Risk online)?

you can try out kdice. pretty similar to risk

Modern Art is pretty fun, and since it's auction-based you end up thinking about negotiation and valuations.

I'm learning to play Go, and it really appeals to me in the same way Lisp might - simple, elegant, but with endless depth.

Go is a great game. I'm hoping I can coax my son to graduate from Chess to Go. Of course he's still pretty young so I'm not hurrying him too much.

I'm not sure if Go is in the intended category of "board games" as that term is being used here, but I must also recommend it.

Learning Go, I found all other games began to seem dull by comparison.

It's rather silly, but I seriously love "The Farming Game" (http://www.farmgame.com/).

Maybe it's the whole running a business aspect, or just that I really like tractors.

Risk, Talisman, Arkham Horror and Android. The latter two are really good, but they could be a bit frustrating if you've never played anything like them again. Once you get the hang of it though they are really addicting.

I enjoy Backgammon and Checkers, Scrabble and Monopoly.

My current affair is with Rubik's Cubes, though--but that's not the exact question here.

List of nice games http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame

Civilization (out of print) Industria Carcassonne Pueto Rico

Another vote for Settlers, also axis and allies is good.

backgammon.

started playing it recently when i got a new job and the guys at my new firm play it. fun as hell.

Robo Rally

Chess.

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