Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Sat March 25, 2017 4:42 am
Gin Rummy
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Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Sat March 25, 2017 4:47 am
I'm more of a Rummy 500 kind of guy.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Mon March 27, 2017 12:03 pm
The base game is probably 90% luck of the tiles, IMO the only real strategy comes from farming at that level. Playing head to head against my wife I won too many games farming so we have a house rule that prohibits it (or at least prohibits ME from farmingMonkey_Driven wrote:It has a fair amount of strategy too. Fun, easy game to play that doesn't take too long.cutuphalfdead wrote:Of course it all comes down to drawing the right tiles, but it also helps to place them well.15showsandcounting wrote:Started playing this w friends. I'm convinced whoever draws the best cards has about a 90% chance of winning. Maybe I'm wrong. Idk. We have added quite a few of the expansions; we bought the big box.cutuphalfdead wrote:Been playing a lot of Carcassonne lately.
Is this usually the case? 90% luck and about 10% strategy? Hope not.
A few buddies and I have been playing Munchkins lately.
). A few of the expansions bring in some decent strategy. The Tower or the Wheel of Forutune ones are good. It's also a good game to play casually while drinking since it's not terribly complicated and doesn't kill the conversation.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Mon March 27, 2017 12:06 pm
There's a lot of luck in the tiles, but there's strategy in knowing the tiles and trying to keep track of what may be available. But yeah, if you take the farmers out a lot of the strategy goes out the windows. Building and managing your field is how you win the game. Unless it's a game that comes down to one giant city, in which case that's how you win the game.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Mon March 27, 2017 12:07 pm
I fucking hate playing with the Abbot (a special meeple that can only be used on the churches but you can score and take it back even if its incomplete).
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Tue March 28, 2017 2:05 am
stratego
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Tue March 28, 2017 2:35 am
gin rummy is the adult version.cutuphalfdead wrote:I'm more of a Rummy 500 kind of guy.
sorry....
no, I mean the game
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Fri April 14, 2017 7:27 pm
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Thu July 13, 2017 8:51 pm
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Thu July 13, 2017 9:01 pm
It can fun. I like cooperative games. Some of the characters you could randomly draw are a bit OP, but the cooperation is the real winner.tragabigzanda wrote:Pandemic is on sale for $20. Does RM like this game?
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Thu July 13, 2017 9:03 pm
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 6:54 am
We've been playing a lot of Mysterium lately. Like a mix of Cluedo and Dixit.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 1:25 pm
This is like when you have to look up the words in the definition of another word.ABNorman wrote:We've been playing a lot of Mysterium lately. Like a mix of Cluedo and Dixit.
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Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 2:00 pm
"A horrible crime has been committed on the grounds of Warwick Manor and it's up to the psychic investigators to get to the bottom of it. In Mysterium, one player takes on the role of the ghost and over the course of a week, tries to lead the investigators to their culprit. Each night the team will be met with visions, but what is the ghost trying to tell you? Can the psychics determine the weapon, location and killer or will a violent criminal pull off the perfect murder?"Monkey_Driven wrote:This is like when you have to look up the words in the definition of another word.ABNorman wrote:We've been playing a lot of Mysterium lately. Like a mix of Cluedo and Dixit.
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Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 2:02 pm
Is it cooperative?ABNorman wrote:"A horrible crime has been committed on the grounds of Warwick Manor and it's up to the psychic investigators to get to the bottom of it. In Mysterium, one player takes on the role of the ghost and over the course of a week, tries to lead the investigators to their culprit. Each night the team will be met with visions, but what is the ghost trying to tell you? Can the psychics determine the weapon, location and killer or will a violent criminal pull off the perfect murder?"Monkey_Driven wrote:This is like when you have to look up the words in the definition of another word.ABNorman wrote:We've been playing a lot of Mysterium lately. Like a mix of Cluedo and Dixit.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 2:16 pm
Yeah, one player is the ghost, and they have to try guide the other players toward the correct solution. It's essentially a social deduction game - the "visions" (pictures) that the ghost gives players can apply to multiple solutions so it's also a bit about understanding how players think.Monkey_Driven wrote:Is it cooperative?ABNorman wrote:"A horrible crime has been committed on the grounds of Warwick Manor and it's up to the psychic investigators to get to the bottom of it. In Mysterium, one player takes on the role of the ghost and over the course of a week, tries to lead the investigators to their culprit. Each night the team will be met with visions, but what is the ghost trying to tell you? Can the psychics determine the weapon, location and killer or will a violent criminal pull off the perfect murder?"Monkey_Driven wrote:This is like when you have to look up the words in the definition of another word.ABNorman wrote:We've been playing a lot of Mysterium lately. Like a mix of Cluedo and Dixit.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 4:13 pm
You guys ever play Codenames? The word version is pretty dope.
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Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 4:17 pm
Codenames is good fun - I had no idea there was a picture version until now.cutuphalfdead wrote:You guys ever play Codenames? The word version is pretty dope.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 4:18 pm
I bought it was a gift by accident and ended up buying the word version to give instead. So I have the picture version lying around, just haven't played it yet.ABNorman wrote:Codenames is good fun - I had no idea there was a picture version until now.cutuphalfdead wrote:You guys ever play Codenames? The word version is pretty dope.
Re: Board/Card Games
Posted: Fri July 14, 2017 4:41 pm
I love Codenames.