TOP TEN TOPIC: BOARD GAMES

I don't really have a top ten but my two favourite board games would be Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. No one can beat me at these games. ;)

Oh yeah, i used to like buying every property and causing the other players to fork over money every turn. It just felt good inside. ;D

This used to have a pretty small selection to go from. But I recently joined a board game group and I've been playing with them twice and I've played at least 15 new games that I haven't fully digested but that have been real fun nonetheless.

Does this include Card games roleplaying games and miniature/wargames games too? Not that I've played a lot of miniature games but I do have the Games Workshop games. But I won't count them in (despite being awesome. Like Necromunda) except the ones that actually has a board. More on that lower down on the list :D

I'm writing the list starting with 1. so if I mention something like "another game like x" BEFORE the actual x it's because I write this backwards.

10. Mutant Chronicles - Siege of the Citadel
I'll put this here for nostalgic reasons mostly. Lower down you'll see Roborally. This is the game I (we) actually made a whole lot of extra scenarios and home rules for because we were 10 and we would play one game for a week. It also had a campaign mode and all that.

Of course being the owner and sole "knower of rules" I always played the bad guys as game master.

9. Railroad Tycoon
Building railroads and stuff. Moneys all over the place and a huuuuuge map. This is mostly on the list because it had really nice pieces :D

8. Factory Fun
Another recent aquintance. Building machines in a hall and trying to produce as much as possible. A bit hard to explain in short but quite fun.

7. Blokus
Almost Tetris in board-game format. I've actually only played this while drunk but I'm betting it's a bit more brain-wrangling when sober.

6. Ingenious
A fun puzzle-tile-placing-pointscoring game. Collecting points of different colours and the one who has most in the lowest category wins. Simple yet very complex.

5. Roborally
A very recent aquintance. I've only played it once a couple of weeks ago but I really enjoyed it. It's just the kind of game I would have loved to have when I was about 10 and was really playing all kinds of long-running games. I can see how this can be interesting on a huuuge map. Except of course that nowadays it's probably best to play in short sessions.

But in playing it once I immediately came up with variant rules and scenarios for it so I only wish I was 10 again and played weekend-long games of Roborally Team Deathmatch and stuff :D

4. Kill Doctor Lucky
I first heard about Cheapass games at a Ropecon I was intrigued but figured there was no way I was ever going to get my filthy hands on one of their products. About five years later I finally did. Cheap production value and a fun little short game that my fondest memories are when I managed to get my army buddies to play it. A great pasttime in the army.

3. Carcassonne
Tile-placing. Simple but with strategy. I haven't tried it with any of the expansions but I have a feeling that it doesn't really get better with them. As it is now it's fairly short and simple. Even though it often feels like it ends too quickly when you're just that one tile away from completing that city.

2. Memoir '44
A fairly simple game of WW2-fighting. Using those lovely hexes and a card-based gameplay. I have only really played it against my little brother but it's still very fun. Sometimes the cards just go against you and there's nothing you can do but overall the game certainly captures the right feel almost always. This in combination with the Hearts of Iron computer game had me watch the whole Band of Brothers series in one weekend.

1. Blood Bowl
The game of fantasy football, football as in the way Americans understand it. Fantasy races from the Warhammer world dish it out on a playing field. Violence all over and a very balanced rule system that can even be played online at http://fumbbl.com. My longest running team there is almost legendary. The Halfling team Fylke's Foodeaters, over 400 games played. And when one game takes about an hour you know what kind of fanatic I am.


I didn't include card or roleplaying games in the end. A card game list would include some additional stuff (Illuminati, Settlers of Catan the card game, Texas Hold 'em etc.) a roleplaying game list would also include a couple of games though I'm not sure I've played enough RPGs to even have a top ten (Neotech, DoD, Vampire, GURPS... Homebrew?) and miniature war games are very few indeed (Games Workshop stuff, Warhammer, 40k, Necromunda... that's probably it)

Also in excluding card games I left out a lot of worthy candidates. So I hope there's a top 10 card games in the future. Because there's a lot of fun card games out there.

I haven't played many board games so instead of listing 10 I will list my favorite:

Wise and Otherwise

There are many other games of this type but Wise and Otherwise is my favorite of the ones I've played. I am surprised nobody else has mentioned it? The game plays as such:

- The master of that round (each round the master is the next person to the right or whatever) reads the first half of an old saying

- Everyone secretly writes what they think is the best ending

- The master collects the responses and anonymously reads them all aloud

- Everyone votes on the best ones. Voting for the correct saying scores you a point while securing someone else's vote also secures a point

- While the original intent is to try and come up with what would be good endings to the real sayings it usually takes about ten minutes for the game to devolve into a series of hillarious dirty jokes with everyone being tricked into voting for the funniest rather than the most clever player



I also really like strategic board games like Risk, Monopoly, etc.

10. Monoploy
A Classic
9.1313 Dead End Drive
Reminded me of Clue
8.Risk(Future Edition)
Great Game
7.Scrabble
6.Boogle(I'm not sure)
5.HULK Massive Destruction
(It had a cord for you to pull that made Hulk go crazy and shook the board)
4.Clue
3.Dungeons and Dragons
2.Harry Potter Quidditch
1.HeroScape