What is your favorite board game?
Chess and checkers don t count and neither do card games like poker or go fish.
Chess and checkers don t count and neither do card games like poker or go fish.
oneshallstand
Favorite Answer
First, in defence of chess it is a great game and I personally enjoy it and spent a lot of money on a good quality board and pieces. However even if you allowed for chess as an answer, it wouldn't be my favourite and out of the "traditional" games, that honour would fall to the far deeper WeiQi (go).
However, assuming that Go is also off the list and you are looking for more modern games, that is a tough call. My most played board game is probably Midnight Party by Ravensburger, partially because that is a game I can play with children or adults and there is depth enough for the adults and simplicity for the children.
In terms of favourite game to play, that might be a bit more difficult. In terms of mainstream games, the honour would fall to Risk but when you open the field up a little, then Starfarers of Catan, Carcassonne or Zombies!!! would probably be the three from which I would choose.
Honourable mentions should also go to Canyon, Settlers of Catan, Ave Caesar and Betrayal at House on the Hill.
SwingCorey
My favorite games are as follows:
- Dominion (a deck-building game that won't bankrupt you like Magic: the Gathering)
- Carcassonne (a tile-laying game where you build the "board" as you play)
- Ingenious
- Last Night on Earth: the Zombie Game
- Wits & Wagers (a trivia game that anyone can play and win)
- 7 Wonders
- Love Letter
- Slide 5 (card game)
Anonymous
Monopoly
Chess
Anonymous
Of course chess counts - it's a board game,
it's the greatest and most popular board game ever invented.
Like it or not, my favourite board game is chess.
Doug Freyburger
Of course chess counts, so chess is my favorite.
Based on time spent playing the next in line after checkers would be close to a tie between Risk and Monopoly.