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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 18, 2020 21:23:13 GMT
Ho boy, I remember that one. Setting it up was such a hassle, but it was pretty awesome to kill people with those ridiculous traps. If they ever turn another board game into a movie, it should be this one.
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Post by Martin Stett on Apr 17, 2021 16:40:11 GMT
I just finished a game of Men at Work, a game similar to Jenga in which you create a deadly workspace for construction workers who thought that The Wages of Fear was chickenshit on the danger scale. I enjoy the game, but we had to create a house rule to just keep going until the deck ran out, instead of the official rule of "until a player causes three accidents." By the time the deck ran out, my sister had caused three accidents... I think that I caused thirteen or fourteen. I only had around eighteen turns.
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Post by Martin Stett on May 19, 2021 21:23:29 GMT
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting DetectiveA game in which you try to solve a mystery by talking to a lot of NPCs. It's... uh, different. Having played one game (out of ten stories in the box), this was at times frustrating, but a cool mental workout. Some things are needlessly obscure ( WE NEVER FOUND THE SCENE OF THE CRIME FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!!!) but even with the handicap of fumbling around in the dark and not knowing what we were doing, I felt that we did rather well. We didn't get negative points for solving everything incorrectly! Here's a review that got me to try the game out: I'd say that it's pretty accurate.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2021 13:27:06 GMT
Trivial Pursuit
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Post by cheesecake on May 29, 2021 17:26:04 GMT
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 1, 2021 20:25:53 GMT
Five cases into Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, and I strongly recommend it. Case 5 (The Cryptic Corpse) sucks, but all of the others have been a lot of fun.
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Post by SZilla on Jul 1, 2021 20:31:54 GMT
Oh man I 100% had this game. It was impossible to set up so my family would rarely play it, so it ended up being more of a toy I'd used to create little murder mystery "film ideas" I had growing up.
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Post by SZilla on Jul 1, 2021 20:46:55 GMT
All time favorite is probably Clue. Scene-It was also a game I always completely demolished the competition in, so it was fun for a while until people didn't want to play with me anymore Recently, my family's been loving Horrified. (Oh you don't say? SZilla likes a game about the Universal Monsters - yeah yeah I know I know) but it really is a blast to play and I'd highly recommend it to anyone, not just classic horror lovers. I also have Godzilla: Tokyo Clash and Back to the Future: Back in Time from the same company, but I haven't had the chance to play them too much yet, so I can't give a solid recommendation on those just yet.
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 8, 2021 3:28:51 GMT
The Thames Murders - eighth case in Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - is a near perfect case. It takes a long time to solve, but we were able to solve all of it - and most importantly, everywhere we went and every lead we investigated had something important. They were jumbled together and required a lot of talking through to solve, but talking the game through is, well, the whole point of the game. We probably spent over an hour rehashing the course of events to make sure that we had our story straight: with five murders, screwing up even one could mean that we would be on the wrong foot for the others. But we did it, and it was awesome.
This was probably intended as the centerpiece of the game - this edition is called The Thames Murders and Other Cases - and it absolutely succeeds. Sure, case 5 was a disaster, but for the most part this game is excellent. And this eighth case was brilliant. I'm looking forward to the next two cases, and then I'll take a long break before attempting Sherlock's Jack the Ripper box. As cool as this game is, it will be fun to try something less thinky - that doesn't consist entirely of reciting the facts of the case and correcting mistakes so everyone is on the same page as to who died when and who has an alibi.
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Post by DaleCooper on Aug 14, 2021 13:36:26 GMT
Trivial Pursuit, obviously. I love Ricochet Robot as well.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2021 0:39:17 GMT
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 15, 2021 0:55:31 GMT
Candyland
It's childish as fuck, but its the one game besides Jumanji where I feel a movie could be made on it. By what director? Obviously Burton, or Coppola. (Sofia)
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 18, 2021 10:04:17 GMT
2 pages in and no mention of old school Battleship? .......What are we those weirdo peace loving hippies on Awards Watch or Gold Derby who just dislike war and stuff? Pfffft
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2021 18:41:44 GMT
2 pages in and no mention of old school Battleship? .......What are we those weirdo peace loving hippies on Awards Watch or Gold Derby who just dislike war and stuff? Growing up and playing Monopoly made me a peace loving veteran. I wanted no more wars .
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 19, 2021 1:08:12 GMT
2 pages in and no mention of old school Battleship? .......What are we those weirdo peace loving hippies on Awards Watch or Gold Derby who just dislike war and stuff? Pfffft Pfah! I take your Battleship and raise you with Gettysburg! A simple enough war game (supposedly one of the simplest), but it still takes hours to play. There's a special thrill to successfully defending Little Round Top as half the damn Rebel army tries to claim it.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 21, 2021 14:52:37 GMT
For what it's worth, I got my whole family addicted to Ticket to Ride at our last gathering.
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 27, 2021 20:51:35 GMT
I just played my first game of Whitehall Mystery as the murderer. First impression is that this is a fun - if terribly unfair - game. It's a hidden movement game in which the murderer secretly moves around the board committing murders while three policemen pieces (played by one to three other players - or more, if you just want a room to argue and debate over where to send the pieces) try to figure out his path based on where he's been, and stop him from killing again. There's no element of chance here, it's just a battle of wits between the killer and the police try to outwit each other. On my end, I found it exhilarating to have the noose pull around my neck, realizing that after committing my third murder, I would be surrounded with nowhere to go (I even had a bobby standing next to me as I killed, which was nerve-wracking). There is very little chance of the murderer ever winning the game, but that isn't the point. It's not about winning, it's about successfully pulling off a risky move, or successfully predicting a movement and catching your opponent off guard. I don't think that it will stay around for me all that long, as it is a mentally taxing game and an ugly theme (it's based on a murder possibly done by Jack the Ripper), but it's a mechanically solid mindgame.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Oct 28, 2021 0:04:55 GMT
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting DetectiveA game in which you try to solve a mystery by talking to a lot of NPCs. It's... uh, different. Having played one game (out of ten stories in the box), this was at times frustrating, but a cool mental workout. Some things are needlessly obscure ( WE NEVER FOUND THE SCENE OF THE CRIME FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!!!) but even with the handicap of fumbling around in the dark and not knowing what we were doing, I felt that we did rather well. We didn't get negative points for solving everything incorrectly! Here's a review that got me to try the game out: I'd say that it's pretty accurate. I told my mom about this game and guess who is going to be getting it around Christmas time? This guy. Probably. MOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jun 3, 2022 22:28:19 GMT
Thinking about getting back into Warhammer 40k after not playing it for almost 20 years...
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Post by stephen on Jun 3, 2022 22:33:27 GMT
Thinking about getting back into Warhammer 40k after not playing it for almost 20 years... I've never played but the lore is so fascinating...
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 3, 2022 22:47:10 GMT
Chess and Scrabble are my jam When I was younger, I really liked playing Sorry!
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jun 4, 2022 0:07:28 GMT
Thinking about getting back into Warhammer 40k after not playing it for almost 20 years... I've never played but the lore is so fascinating... I played Orks back in the day, but if I do end up getting back into it I'm going White Scars space marines... a) the white armor is sick as fuck and b) way fewer models to have to buy/paint than Orks. Seriously, I still have like 150 ork boys.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 26, 2022 21:01:39 GMT
A playthrough of what will undoubtedly be the best board game of the year:
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 4, 2022 22:51:44 GMT
I just finished a case of Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective and we NAILED IT! We had the murder solved in three or four turns! We had the killer, we had motive, we had method! And then I said - and I quote myself - "It's too obvious." So I convinced everybody that this guy couldn't possibly be the murderer. So we sat around for the next two hours interviewing more people and coming up with far more farfetched and ridiculous solutions and went with those. I am both furious with myself and furious with the game for giving me a case so absurdly easy that I assumed it couldn't possibly be solved in such a manner.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Aug 26, 2022 5:08:28 GMT
So apparently I’ve been playing Scrabble incorrectly my whole life. At the end of the game, I’ve always thought you add up the number of points of the tiles you have left once a player uses up all theirs and you subtract that total from your overall score... but according to the official rules you’re supposed to do that AND add it to the score of the player who gets rid of all their tiles first??? Wtf, that’s outrageous! I guess I’ll just pray I never randomly end up with a Q or a Z that I can’t use at the end of the game because you get doubly screwed for it...
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