Ask HN: What are your favorite board games? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?

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Post by vinchuco » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 12:47 AM UTC

IdahoEv wrote: post #44

By category: 1) Heavy Strategy: Eclipse and Terra Mystica (tie) 2) Strategy Cardgame: Race for the Galaxy & expansions 3) Abstract: Arimaa. Runner up: tie between Go and Hive. 4) Real-Time Co-op: Damage Report. Runner up: Space Alert 5) Co-Op: Mysterium 6) Wargame: War of the Ring. Runner up: Twilight Struggle 7) CCG or LCG: Lord of the Rings LCG 8) Party Game: Time's Up Title Recall Runner up: Concept 9) Reaction ti…

Catan isn't bad as long as you're playing with players of the same skill as you.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 12:48 AM UTC

anotherevan wrote: post #58

Backgammon. It's a good metaphor for life. You have to weigh up probabilities and likely outcomes, know when to take a risk and when to play safe. Sometimes the other player plays better than you, sometimes worse, and sometimes the dice just come along and kick your arse.

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Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?

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Post by agnivade » Mon, Aug 01, 2016, 8:52 AM UTC

andy_wrote wrote: post #43

I can't believe that I'm the first to mention One Night Ultimate Werewolf, which has been the consensus favorite amongst my friends for a while now. It has relatively simple rules but very solid strategy (rewards logic and duplicity). The games are short, so you never feel "stuck" on a long game and when you're a beginner, you can rapidly absorb new lessons and strategies and apply them to the next round. The replay…

> One Night Ultimate Werewolf

This seems to be Mafia with cards.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite board games?

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Post by eddyg » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 11:21 PM UTC

andy_wrote wrote: post #43

I can't believe that I'm the first to mention One Night Ultimate Werewolf, which has been the consensus favorite amongst my friends for a while now. It has relatively simple rules but very solid strategy (rewards logic and duplicity). The games are short, so you never feel "stuck" on a long game and when you're a beginner, you can rapidly absorb new lessons and strategies and apply them to the next round. The replay…

I find Two Rooms and a Boom better than ONUW. Similar concept, but with a lot of great optional characters that you can add-in as desired.