Favourite board game of all time?

Scrabble for me!

Used to love the Colditz board game as a kid, but no one ever wanted to be the Germans!

Monopoly.

Risk

mousetrap.
Never actually played it properly though!

KerPlunk

Operation

Buckaroo

labyrinth! for simple seat of the pants play

or the "london game" for the more indepth thinky game

Scrabble, has to be.

Scrabble, fo' shizzle.

My girlfriend made me a board game last year, based on Trivial Pursuit, but with bikes. You move your playing piece, shaped like a shed, round the board, which is shaped like a city with a mountain outside it, and answer questions about different types of cycling. A correct answer gets a little bike, like this:

There's a road bike, DH bike, XC bike, hack bike and BMX, each representing different categories of questions, and you win if you collect them all. It's great but I've memorised pretty much all the answers to the questions, I might put out an appeal for some more.

Got to be Mousetrap for me.

Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Draughts.

Mr Agreeable – You should marry her.

Go

but its hard finding players

noteeth – he said board not bored :D

Colin T – fancied having a go at GO after reading Howard Marks book!

Chakaping – that assumes she'd be fool enough to have me. :-)

Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs. :D

Although I suspect this sort of thing has been made obsolete by these new "computer games".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego

is that david beckham 3rd from the right on the front of stratego?

fwiw mine is battletech though thats straying a bit into the RPG world

Careers is ace, it's a bit like the Game of Life crossed with Monopoly. In the 1960s edition you can go to sea, go into business, become a farmer (there's even a card that says "terrific sunset – 10 points") or explore the moon. It's very "of its time". :-)

lost valley of the dinosaurs was indeed truly great.

''pteranodon swoops'' was a bit of a catch-phase round our (rather geeky) neck of the woods

risk is the daddy though, for never-ending fun :wink:

My girlfriend made me a board game last year, based on Trivial Pursuit, but with bikes.

Christ, . . I can't even get my GF to make me my packed lunch!!

Stratego was/is? very dull, as witnessed by the bald man on the cover, yawning.

Strip Speed-Operation, with shot penalties is by far the best board game, ever.

risk is the daddy though, for never-ending fun

Literally. I seem to remember games of Risk going on for days at a time.

Actual world domination would have been moderately quicker.

Stratego was/is? very dull, as witnessed by the bald man on the cover, yawning.

What? Nonsense!

You could always try Ultimate Lightning Stratego

Or indeed Barrage Stratego :D

I'd rather not

Hmmm.

Battletech or spacehulk. I've played both for hours. I'd have to give it to Spacehulk – just.

Monopoly or Cluedo.

Scotland yard is alrreet aswell.

We used to do marathon Colditz sessions and I would even play the Germans. Shoot to kill card yeah!

That lost valley of the dinosaurs pic has just brought back some great memories! In the same vein, Escape from Atlantis was cool.

Also really liked Hero Quest (which got me into the whole Warhammer/Games Workshop thing too when I was a geeky teen…)

I'd forgotten Spacehulk. :-)

''pteranodon swoops'' was a bit of a catch-phase round our (rather geeky) neck of the woods

Ha ha, same here – along with "the swamp monster is disturbed"

Space Hulk here again.

Colin-T – Member
Go

but its hard finding players

It's hard playing it (well)! I love it: very tactile and elegant (but I'm rubbish at it). Might have to go and get my board, stones and book out and try again… (have you tried igowin?

Does Karom count?

Diplomacy is also rather good.

Naked twister

I play Carcasonne+extensions far too much to be healthy. I also really like Citadels in the pub and we started playing HeckMeck too which also works well in the pub.

People rave about Powegrid but I've never played it. Another game I recommend in Ticket to Ride (Europe) and one I'm hoping to get soon is Polarity.

risk and/or diplomacy