best board games ranked in order

[wiley]

I'm a board game fanatic.  Strategic games or with some strategy/skill more than pure luck....

1.  Chess
2.  Pente
3.  Backgammon
4.  Scrabble
5.  Cribbage
6.  Chinese Checkers (old metal board only)
7.  Checkers
8.  Boggle/Stratego/Yahtzee/Sorry/Connect Four/etc....

Sorry is a great game to play with kids....easy, fun ,frustrating.....very cool that you can be way ahead and then lose, the mark of a good game (drama, etc..)

Go would have been up near the top of the list if I knew how to play it.....Pente however is strategic, fun, and takes two seconds to learn.....The glass stones are beautiful (get the version in the tube with the role out mat) in the sun.  You can make some tea, play Pente and pretend you're deep....

I'm good but not great at Chess.  Speed is a problem and also the end game has never come easily for me.....

[Gainesville Celtic]

Interesting... my big board would be something like:


1. Scrabble
2. Dominion (card game, current obsession)
3. Nexus Ops
4. Risk 2210
5. Carcassone
6. Ticket to Ride
7. Taboo (only "party" game i can stand)
8. Yahtzee
9. (ugh can't remeber the name)
10. Race for the Galaxy

[Fafnir]

Cataan has to be on the list.

[Edgar]

Mono´poly have to be up there somewhere

[action781]

1.  Chess (strategy)
2.  Cranium (fun)

That's it for me.

OK, OK, I also like Taboo although its not really a board game and I love Risk on the computer, but have never played the board game.

I think backgammon is a game that you need to rely a lot on luck in terms of winning.  I feel that a lot of good players would make many of the same moves.  The doubling cube is where I think a lot of strategy comes in, but not everybody uses it.

[Edgar]

not to mention card games like Magic of course.

[kozlodoev]

not to mention card games like Magic of course.

Card games are not board games Magic, in particular, stopped being fun when they decided they need to give every single mechanic a codeword.

As for board games, my top 2 contenders would be Settlers of Cataan and Ricochet Robots. Carcassonne isn't too bad, either.

[Edgar]

not to mention card games like Magic of course.

Card games are not board games Magic, in particular, stopped being fun when they decided they need to give every single mechanic a codeword.

As for board games, my top 2 contenders would be Settlers of Cataan and Ricochet Robots. Carcassonne isn't too bad, either.

lol i know
and get uyou
you should see codewords in spanish
theyre even more anoying

[LB3533]

Go

[Lucky17]

Clue.

[Atzar]

Monopoly and Stratego deserve a mention somewhere.

[mgent]

1.  Chess (strategy)
2.  Cranium (fun)

That's it for me.

OK, OK, I also like Taboo although its not really a board game and I love Risk on the computer, but have never played the board game.

I think backgammon is a game that you need to rely a lot on luck in terms of winning.  I feel that a lot of good players would make many of the same moves.  The doubling cube is where I think a lot of strategy comes in, but not everybody uses it.

Played Cranium once.  Worst game of all time.

[Lucky17]

Monopoly and Stratego deserve a mention somewhere.

Co-sign on Stratego.

[action781]

1.  Chess (strategy)
2.  Cranium (fun)

That's it for me.

OK, OK, I also like Taboo although its not really a board game and I love Risk on the computer, but have never played the board game.

I think backgammon is a game that you need to rely a lot on luck in terms of winning.  I feel that a lot of good players would make many of the same moves.  The doubling cube is where I think a lot of strategy comes in, but not everybody uses it.

Played Cranium once.  Worst game of all time.

One of the hardest I've laughed in my life is when I was blindfolded with pencil in hand and my friend had to grab me by the wrist and try to get me to draw a certain figure that our other friend had to guess what it was.  The laughing came after I took off the blindfold.  I don't think I was sober though.  As a matter of fact, I rarely am when I play the game.  It's a game for fun.  My family and I still joke about what my sister drew when she had to attempt to draw a "flying buttress" which she had no idea what one was.

[BballTim]

Monopoly and Stratego deserve a mention somewhere.

  Nobody out there likes Battleship?