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We don't have reliable winters here so if we get ten inches of snow then a little ice on top we take advantage of it to hunker down in front of the woodstove reading, playing records and get out the board games. Scrabble is it this week (at least until I win again). Other winters we play backgammon, nine men's morris, wari. Some, like Pente, Go and chess are not my favorites, my brain just doesn't work that way.
When our boys were home we played a lot of card games and some of those "on the table for days" games like Monopoly and Risk. My husband made ancient and foreign wooden board games for a number of years so we were always learning new ones like "UR" and senet.

Do you play any of these? any others?

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I used to play Euchre for hours. I love the old board games.

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We played Euchre every night quite awhile ago...fun game but I don't remember how to play...have to dig out the Hoyle.
I got my husband and two teenage sons to play my old Barbie game one winter...hilarious.

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Barbie? Oh, you have to post a picture of that one! I never knew there was a barbie game.

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Rion, I am on a kindle, no computer, so no way to post pictures. The game was a typical board game...dice, stack of draw cards, etc. Definitely added a new twist from when I played it with my sister.

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They're selling "Settlers of Catan" at Target these days--highly recommended. It may be the best board game ever. Enough chance to give everyone a chance to win and enough strategy to keep it very interesting.

All games are a trade-off between strategy and chance. Chess is pure strategy, and CandyLand is pure chance.

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I really like Labyrinth. Recently I've been playing the jr. version with my kids, and while I like the regular one better, the jr. one is still fun for adults. I'm going to try playing the original version with the kids soon. I think the 10-year-old is ready for it, and her sister, who is 6, is so good at Jr. Labyrinth that I suspect she'll be able to handle the more complicated one.

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We play Scrabble and card games like Spades and Rummy. Sometimes we'll play Scategories. We love family time playing games and will have tournaments when we all gather on holidays.

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I second Julia's recommendation for The Settlers of Catan. Awesome game.

We've been playing poker and a card game called "9-hole golf."

My son also likes Liar's Dice, though we have yet to get it out this winter.

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Oh, it might be on permies in a different forum or thread (I looked and couldn't find it): Wildcraft An Herbal Adventure Game.

It's a cooperative game suitable for families with younger kids, though we made alternative, competitive rules for it, too.

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Well, We've never bought a new game but now I want to go looking for the Settlers of Catan, Labyrinth and The Wildcraft one. Our grandchildren play a lot of board games and cards...I'll have to see if they already have any of these...I know they have scategories and probably Labyrinth.
I am on a losing streak playing scrabble...time to move on I think.

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I love Wildcraft too!

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Hi all-

Our favorite family game (after scrabble) is a card game we call Peanuts (aka Nerts or Pounce or Squeek, I guess):

http://www.pagat.com/patience/nerts.html

My grandmother brought it back from Florida in the 70's. And we just played it here last week.
It's a form of multi-player solitaire, with no turns, and it's a riot.

It takes a lot of decks of cards: one deck for each player.

The only thing about winter play, is that it's much more fun to play if you have at least 4 or more people, which may not be the norm on a snowy day.
I laughed out loud when I read the rules web page (above) that says that it "gets out of hand" if five or more people play!
Because that's the way our family REALLY likes to play it (a fast free-for-all with no turns and lots of competition!)

I especially recommend it if you have a group with small kids (5 years old and up) and adults, total group about 6 to 8. Then you can pair each kid with an adult partner. The kid partner has the responsibility of watching for a chance to play just the one card off the pair's Peanuts pile (aka Nerts pile), while the adult does all the rest of the demanding fast work of trying to play out cards. This makes for lots of teamwork. The kids have one of the most important jobs, and there's lots of opportunity for the adults to help, coach and joke with their kid partners. And the adults can help the kids to reach down the long dining room table, to play their cards.

One thing we insist on, that makes it more fun, is how we turn over the cards in the stock pile, 3 cards at a time (just like in solitaire).We do this using a "flip".
That is: hold the stock pile in your left hand, slide the top card off with right hand's thumb into your right hand; then repeat with the next 2 cards, and flip the resulting 3 cards in your right hand over, to reveal the card you can play. (Please forgive the right-hand bias). You'll get why this is more fun, once you play.

You can see the whole thing demonstrated as "Squeek" on Youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ssLI51RZ4
This family is faster than mine, and there isn't as much good-natured yelling as there is at our house. And they play the Peanuts pile face up (what's up with that?!).
Watch the player to the lower right of your screen -- it's easy to see him doing doing the "flip".

I guess you can tell by now that I REALLY like this game! And that this post definitely belongs in the meaningless drivel forum!

Have fun!
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Mariamne, I've got to figure your game out before we visit our grandkids...it sounds like something they would love. My grand daughters taught us to play "spoons"...too speedy for me but fun...a card game where at a certain point you race to grab the spoon..I don't remember the game very well, it's been a long time since we played it, but It is probably on you tube also.

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Hi Judith-

Great, re: Peanuts with the grandkids, in future!

Thanks for reminding me of spoons: yes, it is fast, and similar hilarity ensues.

For those not initiated to spoons, here's rules:
http://boardgames.about.com/od/cardgames/a/spoons.htm

Here's actual play: a youtube video of a nice-looking bunch, inciting each other to questionable behavior. (This has some high production values!)
Note this fam says you wait for "three of a kind" to grab a spoon, rather than four, as stated in the rules page. But I think this would still be legal in most states.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1nUkMgG558

Looking forward to trying out the board games mentioned!
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We also love Settlers of Cataan. Great introduction to what a good board game can be like.

Lately we've been playing Ticket To Ride. Its a bit lighter, easy and fun to play a quick game. 521 5-star reviews on Amazon haha.

I got the family Agricola for Christmas, but we haven't started it yet. Its supposed to be a really great game and its about farming, lol. I picked that up at Barnes and Noble for a good price.

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Carcassonne is a great tile-laying euro-style (http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Eurogame) game for 2 to 6 players and when you get used to playing the main game you can get additional tiles and extra expansions which take the game to new levels.

This is about the only game we play repeatedly and there are not a lot of rules to learn, it gets a bit tricky at the adding up stage in the end but it is easy enough to get the hang of.

BoardGameGeek is a good place to go for ideas and reviews

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Yes, Carcassonne is a marvelous game as well. FYI, there are kids' versions of both Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne. They are simpler than the originals, but still fun, with the same high quality physical parts as all European style games. (If you haven't played a game made for German consumers, you may be surprised at the richness of the color printing, the thickness of any cardboard and the heft of wooden playing pieces.)

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so, don't laugh, this is only coincidence but our favorite game with the grandkids lately has been "Apples to Apples" the junior version because some are younger but still lots of fun. It covers a lot of words and meanings and has just enough competition to keep it interesting.
Playing "Skip-bo" with another grand.......junior version also.

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I have to put my vote in for Settlers of Cataan. My friends and I would play it to death, every night until 3 AM most nights, when we were in university. I still get a hankerin' any time I get three potential players together.

My girlfriend would be the one to ask. Her family has a love of boardgames that outmatches any I have ever seen. I played my first game of an old James Bond game from the 70s I think just this spring. They have a basement and an attic full, floor to ceiling in places, with old and ancient board games and puzzles.

She grew up in Cochrane, Ontario, an eight hour drive north of Toronto, and well practiced at snow days. They've had like 4 already this season, and we've barely seen flurries here.

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We are into triomino here very easy to learn

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In The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss described an ancient strategy game called Tak. James Ernst of Cheapass Games turned it into a real game.

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Julia Winter wrote:In The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss described an ancient strategy game called Tak. James Ernst of Cheapass Games turned it into a real game.

If you buy it from Worldbuilders, you will be supporting Heifer Project International.

We've read the books, well not the third one yet since it's still not finished, but the first two and also 'The Slow Regard of Silent Things' which is really my favorite !

You've given me the perfect gift idea for Steve....thank you!

I could not see how to order from Worldbuilder? am using this site https://thetinkerspacks.com/collections/tak-a-beautiful-game
Have you ordered from them before...the tinkers pack site I mean?

EDIT...I spoke too soon...The Tinkerspacks is how you buy and then the proceeds go to 'Worldbuilder' and the Heifer Project. Just ordered...they look like really nicely done games.

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Judith Browning wrote:We've read the books, well not the third one yet since it's still not finished, but the first two and also 'The Slow Regard of Silent Things' which is really my favorite !

You've given me the perfect gift idea for Steve....thank you!

Yeah, we're all waiting for that third book! Luckily the first two stand up to multiple rereads - there is so much there that you miss the first time. Another gift idea is the new 10th Anniversary Edition of The Name of the Wind, which is very beautiful. It has red ink on the edges of the pages (like a bible) and it's full of illustrations and has extra stuff at the back about currency and the maps and such.

I am ashamed to say that I've only played Tak a couple of times. It is a fun game, I need to get my husband playing it (but I know he'll beat me, maybe that's why I'm hesitating).

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Julia Winter wrote:

Judith Browning wrote:We've read the books, well not the third one yet since it's still not finished, but the first two and also 'The Slow Regard of Silent Things' which is really my favorite !

You've given me the perfect gift idea for Steve....thank you!

Yeah, we're all waiting for that third book! Luckily the first two stand up to multiple rereads - there is so much there that you miss the first time. Another gift idea is the new 10th Anniversary Edition of The Name of the Wind, which is very beautiful. It has red ink on the edges of the pages (like a bible) and it's full of illustrations and has extra stuff at the back about currency and the maps and such.

I am ashamed to say that I've only played Tak a couple of times. It is a fun game, I need to get my husband playing it (but I know he'll beat me, maybe that's why I'm hesitating).

While waiting on the third book be sure and read 'the slow regard of silent things'...it is so good. and be sure to read his explanation of why he wrote it. I think a lot of his fans were upset that he took the time to write that and hadn't finished the third book yet. It's all about Auri and probably wouldn't stand alone if someone hadn't read the first two.

I have to focus on young child gifts now...don't tempt me with more games...haha....a five year old gr. grand who loves dinosaurs and Captain America and twin almost three year olds who are open to anything...and a seven year old and one who's eleven...the teens are easy, we just get them a card and some cash.

I should go back through this thread and see what might be good for some of them. I do have plenty of Paul's playing cards and the Food Forest game for older folks. And I ordered a deck of Micah (willie's son) Nelson's gnome cards (particle kid web site). I need to stay focused on the young ones and on budget now

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Okay, that Tak game based on the Rothfuss books looks so awesome. It inspired me to look for a books thread to talk more about those books. See What Are You All Reading, page 2 of the thread, for links and more about the Rothfuss books. Some HUGE book joy there, to be sure.

I finally stepped away from the computer to play a game with Fred and Kara the other night, and I really enjoyed it! Kara said she prefers this game to Settlers of Cataan. It was Fred's game, and there are expansion packs as well as simpler or more complicated ways to play.

Carcassonne Board Game

You build the board like a puzzle, with tiles that have cities, roads, fields and/or monasteries, and you get points by your "meeples" (or followers or little person game pieces) claiming certain parts of what is built as the game goes along. So, there are similarities to Cataan, but no Robber. :-)

We also played Fistful of Penguins by Wattsalpoag Games, which was a bit different. We weren't really sure if we liked it.

It's an interesting dice and tokens game. If you know how to beat the odds of rolling dice, with some interesting/complicated scoring rules, this would be the game for you.

Wattsalpoag's newest game has echidnas and bugs (!!) as the playing pieces, though it won't be out until next summer (June 2018): Echidna Shuffle. When have you heard of a game based on echidnas? :-D

One of these days, I want to play Wattsalpoag's Jet Set with or without the Distant Lands or Jumbo Jets expansion packs. I heard this game is fun and REALLY helps with learning world geography.

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Carcassonne is a great game, we've played that a lot. Setting up farmers seems like the key to success.

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We play board-games almost every evening. I think we have about 40 different ones at the moment, and we buy a new one every month to keep it interesting.
The biggest problem we have is that it's just me and my wife. And not all games play well with just 2.

Some of our favorite games:
-Tash Kalar (abstract game where you are a sorcerer who has to try to summon creatures)
-Fungi (card game about gathering and cooking mushrooms)
-Dungeon Petz (keep, raise and sell monsters)
-Rivals for Catan (2-player variant of Settlers of Catan)
-Through the Ages (develop a society from the old to the modern times, long game!!!)
-Evolution: Climate (adapt species to survive the changing climates)
-A Feast for Odin (worker placement game with tetris integrated)
-Cottage Garden (a bit like playing tetris)
-Caverna: the Cave Farmers (the newer, and in our opinion better, version of agricola, where you play dwarfs who need to farm and mine)
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So why haven't we come up with a plan for a Kickstarter-able Permies boardgame? Maybe something Cataanish?

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I love the game Wildcraft. Shoots and ladders, but with herbs. Cooperative. Sweet. Fun to play with little ones, but I love it with just about anyone. The goal? Bring huckleberries back to Grandma. She'll come and fetch us if it gets too late. And we have her herb lore to help us as we deal with the slips and trips and bug bites and hunger that assail all who hike in the woods.

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I like the classics like Monopoly, Life and Clue. I also just picked up Pictionary and Hedbandz for my son's birthday. :)

A permaculture-themed monopoly game would be pretty badass.

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Nope, not for me. I hate Monopoly. I mean, maybe it would be different if you permied it, but I can't conceive of how that could be done and be good and resemble the original game at all.

Gimme Risk, or Cataan if I don't have a snowed-in long weekend.

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Has anyone played Omweeso ? National board game of Uganda,it is an ancient board game originally played with seeds in the dirt. Kings and the royal court played , men were allowed but women and children were not... (patriarchal so and so's)
Two person game very easy and very hard, a round can take just a few moments or over an hour! You never know who will win till the end, its great fun.
Anyone who can count can play, I have watched videos of preteens in Uganda who played faster than I could watch !

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Our best family game is Uno; we normally play with just three of us, but had some visiting family which made it even more fun and evil. Need to have a good sense of humor to play it though! I like that it plays quickly--we can play several hands over half an hour and all win some, and even if we don't, we definitely won last time.

I like Scrabble though I might be biased as I'm the one who usually wins; not sure if that means I'm good or they're not....a similar/easier one I also like is Bananagrams. My eight year old son has genuinely beat me at least once at Bananagrams.

We all like Once Upon a Time: each player has a handful of cards which they have to use to tell a story in order to finish with their own unique ending card. It's fun making all the strange elements (like wolf, cook, fighting, beautiful, it talks, secret, etc) fit, and interrupting each other to lay your own cards, and even if someone else wins, everyone contributed to tell the story.

My parents bought us Watch Ya Mouth last Christmas and we laughed so hard playing it. Seriously, we were crying with laughter. It needs more cards though, to make it replayable (no doubt extra cards can be found online to print).

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David Livingston wrote:We are into triomino here very easy to learn

David

I grew up playing that! Love it!

We have TONS of games. If you want a list of my kids fav games I can get that out but for a few adults and maybe some kids we like:

Parcheesi

Uno

Dominos

If you have about 6 people our favorite games are:

Pit

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When I was growing up we played mostly card games. My favorite was 2 deck pinochle, but it took the whole night. My brother once collapsed a card table on everyones legs diving across to grab a card during a game of 'Pit'. I knew someone who was evicted for playing Pit at 1:00 am (landlords lived below them).

When I fished commercially, our favorite (card) game was 'O Hell!" You can win with any kind of hand, if you play it right. you look at your cards and predict how many tricks you'll take, and you get your tricks + 5 for your score if you hit your # exactly, if over or under, you lose 5 points.

When we lived in the southwest we got hooked on dominos. Not many people we run into know how to play though.

My kids played a lot of Zilch (dice game), you can roll as long as you want, but when you roll zilch (no points) you loose whatever you rolled that turn.

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I also have to agree with what others have posted about Settlers of Catan. The Catan card game is also good for 2 players.

I also like...
'Ticket to Ride' (we have the kids version called 'First Journey', which I think has simplified rules to make it easier for younger children).

'Twilight Struggle' - only for 2 players, but a very good game about the cold war.

'Thurn and Taxis' - great classic German game which uses a combination of strategy and luck.

'Talisman' - good introduction to RPGs in some ways, with characters with different strengths and weaknesses, ways to find and gain extra life, strength, craft and so on. Not many rules to learn, but lots of strategy and decisions to make.

Smallworld, Agricola, Blokus, Junior Labyrinth, Carcassonne are also good. And "My First Orchard" for the toddlers.

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Some of my favorite games to play with friends are:

-We Didn't Playtest This At All! (It's a super fun and silly game that goes very quickly; just read the rules to see! :) )

-Kittens in a Blender (I KNOW, yes, the title is horrible, but this is such a silly fun game to play)