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Board games are not just for kids. While many of us grew up playing games like Monopoly, Candyland, and Sorry, there is a new generation of games targeting adults like Trivial Pursuit and Cranium. In this section you can rate and review all sorts of board game related themes. Click on the list of your choice to get started.

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7 days ago

I've had the chance to play Settlers of Catan a few times, and found the gameplay to be satisfyingly strategic, unlike most standard die-rolling board games like Monopoly. Playing well requires you to employ a bit of deception and manipulation much in the same way one does with poker or gin while you build your empire, which always makes a game more skill-driven (and fun).

Catan has a lot of quirky rules that seem difficult to remember, but are actually pretty easy once you get going. If possible, play with a friend who already knows the rules and let him teach you the ropes.

There are a few computer versions of this game (and, as I just discovered, an iPhone version...I'll report back on how that is shortly), but it's much more interesting to play against humans than AI, if at all possible.
votes 4 Helpful / 0 Funny / 1 Agree / 0 Disagree

7 days ago

Review Icon irishgit reviewed Clue in Board Games:
As long as its a five or six player game, quite a bit of fun. Four or less and its tedious and predictable.

The deductive part of the game has some subtleties, as long as one remembers to watch the other players involved besides the two asking and showing cards. If one of the players is a competent poker player, able to read and not provide tells, they have a tremendous advantage.
votes 6 Helpful / 0 Funny / 1 Agree / 0 Disagree

7 days ago

I've never been much of a fan. The opening and mid-game are fun, but the end-game, once all the properties have been acquired and developed is simply an exercise in dice rolling attrition. Its far too luck dependent for something that takes as long as it does to play.
votes 1 Helpful / 0 Funny / 2 Agree / 0 Disagree

7 days ago

An excellent game about hotel aquisition and stock manipulation.

Its a bit abstract (hotels are represented by tiles placed on a rectangular board) but that does nothing to damage its value. Far more skill than luck dependent and surprisingly subtle in the tactics and strategies available to the player. Playable by two to six players, although games with two are far less fun and far more predictable.

I've played it for over thirty years, and it never ceases to entertain me.
votes 3 Helpful / 0 Funny / 0 Agree / 0 Disagree

12 days ago

random board, big time strategy games
votes 0 Helpful / 0 Funny / 0 Agree / 0 Disagree

23 days ago

A simple tile laying game that is heavily luck dependant but rewards the more strategic player with some subtleties. Essentially the players gradually build a game board comprising a medieval landscape, scoring points for cities, roads, monastaries and farms. It can be played by any number from two to five players, and doesn't seem to have an ideal number of players, the way some do. Games take 30 to 45 minutes, and although the game is simple, it is quite entertaining.
votes 3 Helpful / 0 Funny / 1 Agree / 0 Disagree

53 days ago

We bought this game for my daughter (3) and son (5) for Christmas last year. They really like it and are able to play along. There is some precision that is required. It's a little boring for the adults; however, fun to watch the kids play.
votes 0 Helpful / 0 Funny / 0 Agree / 0 Disagree

54 days ago

Great fun! My kids are already asking to play again.
votes 0 Helpful / 0 Funny / 0 Agree / 0 Disagree

55 days ago

This is my favorite of the Diner Dash game series. I like the additional things that you have to do. It is more fun to have to juggle additional things.

It is actually pretty easy. I was able to get an expert score on all of the levels. In all of the levels the people are served at the counter. As a person earns money he/she gets to purchase additional items to make the customers happier, food to cook faster, even hot sauce for the people to eat faster. You don't have to worry quite as much on this game as compared with the others, where you sit the people (such as a business man next to a cell phone guy, but you still do have to pay attention to that and serve them coffee, etc. Or just wait and not set them next to each other if possible.

I will say this, although this really is my favorite game of the Diner Dash series, I actually went back even after getting expert on every level and perfected it to where I didn't lose any customers either. I was sick with the flu for eight days and didn't have much else to do (just in case you are wondering why I would play a game for so long!). Also, after about the sixth or seventh level of each restaurant (or sooner) I would run out of items to purchase and just accumulated money.

This isn't a big deal to me, but my daughter enjoys changing Flo's clothing and on this game you don't get to choose the clothes she wears. That is not an issue for me but I thought I would mention it in case it is important to someone else.
votes 0 Helpful / 0 Funny / 0 Agree / 0 Disagree

57 days ago

I love this game! So simple yet so fun! I found an iPhone/iPod Touch game that is based on it called Pass the Buck. It's the same game, just without the dice. Now, I can play where ever I am... as long as I have my iPhone. And it's only $0.99! Check it out at http://bit.ly/passthebuck
votes 0 Helpful / 0 Funny / 0 Agree / 0 Disagree

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