Bomben Auf England, classic. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23577/bomben-auf-england
Made in my family's games factory that one. Although it wasn't under our control at the time.
The Rise of German Board Games
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Monopoly is a perfectly fine game. The problem is no one bothers to actually play it by the rules (auctions, no dumb house rules like fines go to free parking).
I don't think that's the problem! It's (as noted in many online articles) the last 2/3 of every game is the richest person getting more and more so, until too long later they win. Kind of a drag for everyone else. (p.s. I play it by the rules.)
That was kind of by design to illustrate the evils of capitalism and advocate for a land value tax. Bit of a pity it didn't work. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie)
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#63I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff. And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!
Seconding this. My boys love their tablets and their Xbox, which I play with them and don't discourage (video games have their positives), but our real quality time is playing board games. It's wonderful to watch my four and six-year-old "get it" while interacting with them on a personal level. Earlier this year I discovered thrift stores are a wealth of games and I'll bring home a stack of new ones to try out every…
https://boardgamegeek.com/ has an active second hand market where you can find less mainstream games. I've personally bought a couple of games on there.
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#64I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff. And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!
For me, it's always a challenge to play board games with my kids.
They are now 8, 6 and 4, and none of them wants to lose. It always ends up with someone crying, sometimes with all of them crying (including the winner).
For other parents who have the same issue: I was able to "fix" this situation by declaring the winner as the person who is able to take defeat without crying. After that I mostly can declare all of them winners. Sometimes I'm able to end the game nicely like that.
Just saying that playing a board game with small kids is not always as easy as your imagine it to be.
EDIT: One more thing: there are some nice co-op games for kids, and with those I never have a problem. A real recommendation!
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#65I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff. And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!
Seconding this. My boys love their tablets and their Xbox, which I play with them and don't discourage (video games have their positives), but our real quality time is playing board games. It's wonderful to watch my four and six-year-old "get it" while interacting with them on a personal level. Earlier this year I discovered thrift stores are a wealth of games and I'll bring home a stack of new ones to try out every…
If you live in a big city you can try finding a "game café/pub" such as Storm Crow Tavern in Vancouver or Spielwiese Berlin.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever played Diplomacy? It makes Catan look like a picnic. https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/11/diplomacy-the-most-evi...
It's great, but if your group is used to something like Catan, it's much more time consuming. Great at ending friendships, however.
If you want to play in one sitting, in-person you need 6 or 7 players for a good 6+ hours...So basically it's a game for college students (I played it a lot at uni).
As an adult you can try to online versions where you only do one move per x(usually 24) hours. The games last weeks but you can play remotely at your leisure.
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#67Wow, I had no idea Phil Eklund was such a superstar! I met him waaaay back in 1990 when he still lived in Tucson and would bring his whacky home made games to the “Historical Games Society” club at the U of A. Way to go Phil!
This does kind of happen. I have a friend who used to drag us to play Camelot in some strange bar. Fast forward 10 years, he translated or edited most of titles I play these days. As in, his name in credits of every other box.
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#68I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff. And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!
For me, it's always a challenge to play board games with my kids. They are now 8, 6 and 4, and none of them wants to lose. It always ends up with someone crying, sometimes with all of them crying (including the winner). For other parents who have the same issue: I was able to "fix" this situation by declaring the winner as the person who is able to take defeat without crying. After that I mostly can declare all of th…
Thanks for sharing the anecdote. I think you should ask yourself why are they crying. Is it because they are hurt or because they expect something to happen by doing it, like you declaring them winners? I'll bet they still playing the "game"...
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#69I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff. And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!
I've been pondering what the point [nowadays] is of all these board games I played as a child. Risk, Axis & Allies, Colditz, Monopoly, Stratego (I played all these games below the recommended game). As well as PnP RPGs, card games, and collectible card games. My problem is that, at an older age, I don't regularly meet friends anymore in physical space "just because", and on a birthday this doesn't fly either. Things like Friday evening RPG night? No way. Heck, I don't even have the friends anymore who are into that. That's what makes an electronic game much more accessible be it single player or MMO.
The answer is that as a teenager, we didn't have mobile phones etc (or well, barely) and we resorted to physical games such as card games. And as a kid, it was part of being friends with schoolmates, or (as you put it) playing with my parents. So we were already enforced, pretty much, being in physical space, overcome out boredom, and bended that to pleasure in such a way that we enjoyed being with each other.
The point being, that these games are still solid for youth and parents playing with youth. Heck, its partly even my problem that I don't initialise card games on a birthday.
Being autistic and opposite sex of my kid poses challenges though. Its still a long way down the road but while teaching them to become competitive in games and learning to win and lose seems invaluable, with a girl I'm inclined to not bother with violence or war-theme (or WWII) games. There's tons of these available, but it does pose limitations.
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#70I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff. And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!
For me, it's always a challenge to play board games with my kids. They are now 8, 6 and 4, and none of them wants to lose. It always ends up with someone crying, sometimes with all of them crying (including the winner). For other parents who have the same issue: I was able to "fix" this situation by declaring the winner as the person who is able to take defeat without crying. After that I mostly can declare all of th…
Hah! Definitely have the same problem, there's always someone crying.
Which are some of those co-op games?