Christmas board games edition.

Have you tried any of the more recent "classics"?

Ticket to Ride
The Mind
Carcassone
Dominion
Hare and Tortoise
Pandemic

Loads of good info at https://boardgamegeek.com/

I've recently bene enjoying Labarynth recently... good to play the 'simpler' version with younger kids.
Really appeals to my brain and way of thinking!

DrP

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Point the first. You need this. https://boardgameprices.co.uk/

Point the second. A Christmas game, you say? https://www.chaoscards.co.uk/prod/all-board-games/exit-advent-calendar-the-hunt-for-the-golden-book

Point the third. What gobuchul said.

Point the fourth. Age, experience and player count would be useful in offering further recommendations.

Point the fifth, took me a moment.

https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/board-games-whatre-you-currently-playing

I’ve recently bene enjoying Labarynth recently… good to play the ‘simpler’ version with younger kids.
Really appeals to my brain and way of thinking!

The 3d version is good and quicker per round than the full version for the younger players too.

I love Splendor. It's got bits of lots of other games, it's lovely and simple to learn so the complexity's all on the table where it belongs. It's got some of my favourite bits of, say, Catan without the constant wood and sheep jokes.

(though, the colour design sucks donkey balls, it's obvious they never tested it for colourblindness-friendliness)

monopoly deal is a nicely shortened (15 mins per game) take on the christmas classic. Not really monopoly at all but a monopoly-themed card game

Ooh that advent calendar thingy looks good. Ordered one -cheers. 😎🤶🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

I haven't played it yet, it not being December and all. But we had the [checks Covid calendar] 2020 precursor, something about ice caves. We had a lot of fun with it, it was great. I'm looking forward to this year's.

Point of note with Exit games is they're destructive, when you're done it's bound for the recycling. I've played previous and tried to keep them intact in order to pass on; just thinking "bugger it, you don't put chocolates back in the box in a regular advent calendar" gave us a much better experience. You're likely gonna have to destroy it as you play, just lean into it.

Sounds good. I shall look forward to it. 👍

👍 We can compare notes here as we play, if you like.

(though, the colour design sucks donkey balls, it’s obvious they never tested it for colourblindness-friendliness)

Urgh. Was thinking of getting that, but my lad has pretty severe RG colourblindness and I struggle a bit with some blues and greens. He copes with Ticket to Ride thanks to the different shapes on the coloured cards. Is this likely to frustrate him?

I'd have to check to be sure, but I thought Splendor also had different shapes for the different colours?

Not for the colour blind but Blokus is addictive in a strategy type way. Was recommended for my son to help his processing development. Great fun.

My 5 and 7 year old are enjoying the re-released heroquest. Painting the models takes forever though!

Pokemon go boardgame as well

It does depend on the players age / number as mentioned above!

Anyway, I seem to have diverted the thread off topic.

Popular games in our house:

Port Royal
Ticket to Ride
Azul
Carcassonne

👍 We can compare notes here as we play, if you like.

Splendid idea..👍🎄😎

Harry_the_Spider
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Urgh. Was thinking of getting that, but my lad has pretty severe RG colourblindness and I struggle a bit with some blues and greens. He copes with Ticket to Ride thanks to the different shapes on the coloured cards. Is this likely to frustrate him?

The poker chips are fine but the cards... You get the white diamond, fine. The blue round thing, fine. And then you get the reddish brown oblong and the brownish red oblong, and the dirty green oblong-at-a-different angle.

I was looking at pictures though and I suspect the Marvel version is unchanged gameplay wise? It looks to be much better, mostly because they colour the whole top bar of the cards

Between us, me and the missus got for Christmas:

Catan
Azul
Carcassonne

Haven't played them yet, just a few games of Hive (I'm pretty good at chess but crap at Hive).

We've been playing Akropolis this Christmas which is pretty good fun.
Splendor, as other have mentioned is good, we've moved to Splendor Duel which is a bit of a twist on the original game.
Carcassone is very good indeed, just beware that there are a lot of add-on modules for the game which can take it from a fun, simple 45-60mins of play to an epic 2-3hrs of "we're gonna need a bigger table..." especially if you use the towers which allows much more aggressive, tactical attacking and defensive play.
For anyone thats played the basic version of Azul, try Queens Garden which is significantly better with a much deeper gameplay.

If anyone likes card-based games I can heartily recommend Gubs which is both very tactical but with some clever random elements that can quickly turn the game on its head.