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Settlers with Catan with the Cities and Knights expansion
Carcassonne
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Apples to Apples
Quiddler

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these are the kind of games my bf buys all the time!. he is nuts and has a buttload of them. i haven't played most of the games he buys, but i like carcassone and san juan and lost cities.

today i was trying to think of something to play at christmas with my family (something fun but not too dumb). things like risk take too long but we all like that one. my mom has always liked trivial pursuit so maybe i'll buy an updated version of that so i might actually know some of the answers.

my bf was telling me i should get apples to apples because he's heard it's suppose to be a good game , but i looked at the back of the box in the store and it looked stupid ? you just lay down a card like "shocking" and everyone plays a card like "my first kiss" or "lightning" or whatever and vote on what is the funniest ? is that really fun , am i missing something ?

never heard of quiddler, i'll have to look that one up.

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apples to apples does work great in mixed/family situations and it can scale to an infinite amount of players. just forget about playing it with a timer, that's lame. the fun usually comes from intentionally wrong answers, or the negative reactions to those who do it.

since your bf is a "gamer's gamer", for more family-oriented stuff have him try these:

ticket to ride (2-5 players)
ingenious (2-4, team play optional)
manila (3-5)
geschenkt (3-5)
ricochet robots (1-infinity)
king me! (3-5)
i'm the boss (3-5)
liar's dice (2-6)

read about them at boardgamegeek.com and buy them at thoughthammer.com

i've rated about 175 games, you can see them at http://tinyurl.com/a5k83

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Apples to Apples is one of the greatest family games ever. I used to work in a game store and was demoing it to this lady. I put down 'kinky', the match she put down was 'chains'.

Apples to Apples is the envy of the gaming industry now. It has already surpassed 1,000,000 units sold. That doesn't happen with [censored] games except Monopoly.

Quiddler is a card based word game. Very fun and a MENSA Select game.

discounted games online: http://thoughthammer.com/

great resource for reviewing games: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/index.htm

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Haha, I love how the biggest ladder goes to the kid doing something more dangerous than any of the "chute" kids.

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Interesting observation, although skating on thin ice is arguably much more dangerous.

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chess is numero uno

checkers and monopoly are also cool

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Scrabble is awesome.

I also really like Go - Go (Baduk in the Korean)

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Haha, I love how the biggest ladder goes to the kid doing something more dangerous than most of the "chute" kids.

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Interesting observation, although skating on thin ice is arguably much more dangerous.

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I didn't notice that one. I stand corrected. FMP

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apples to apples does work great in mixed/family situations and it can scale to an infinite amount of players. just forget about playing it with a timer, that's lame. the fun usually comes from intentionally wrong answers, or the negative reactions to those who do it.

since your bf is a "gamer's gamer", for more family-oriented stuff have him try these:

ticket to ride (2-5 players)
ingenious (2-4, team play optional)
manila (3-5)
geschenkt (3-5)
ricochet robots (1-infinity)
king me! (3-5)
i'm the boss (3-5)
liar's dice (2-6)

read about them at boardgamegeek.com and buy them at thoughthammer.com

i've rated about 175 games, you can see them at http://tinyurl.com/a5k83

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we apparently own ticket to ride and ingenius , i'll have to look at them to see if it'd be something my family would like. thanks for the other suggestions too!

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Apples to Apples is one of the greatest family games ever. I used to work in a game store and was demoing it to this lady. I put down 'kinky', the match she put down was 'chains'.

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but won't the 'SIIHP' card always win even though it's obviously suppose to be the 'funny' one even though it probably isn't really that funny ?

i guess i'll have to try it just to see what the fuss is about. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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My family loves Cranium. It's like charades, trivial pursuit and pictionary all rolled into one. You have to have enough people for teams. Really fun.