Well I'm a bit dumb so I don't like highly strategic and competitive board games but other than that? Bring it on!
Since this is about all games outside computers I have to profess my love to solitaires. At best I've known and played over 30 different solitaires at one time but I've forgotten most of them now. Usually I just play the classic or clock solitaires. I think I got the habit from my dad or grandad and I've been playing them since I was a little kid. I've developed some pretty strict qualification standards for a deck of cards and even if I own many decks I only use couple of them. I just collect them for fun too.
Then to board games with cards. My absolute favourite is
Guillotine. You have an executioner, guillotine and a queue of French monarchs and revolutionaries leading to that guillotine. Every head is worth a different amount of points and the aim of the game is to get most points of course. You manipulate the order of the line with action cards so that when your turn comes to collect a head, it's worth the most points. But beware! Executing a martyr or hero of the people decreases your points
Most points will of course come from King Louie XVI, Maria Antoinette, Cardinal and such. Robespierre doesn't yield much points though. This is a game I think you all should try if you ever bump in to it.
Other card game that I really like is
Once Upon A Time. It's a bit more role playing type of game. You have cards with plot points, places and characters from all the classic fairytales in them. One of the players starts telling a story while other players try to guide to story to where they want it to go by using the plot cards they have. Goal of the game is to get the happily ever after. This game requires some creativity and ability to weave stories. Too bad I rarely get play it as it definitely is a game for many players.
Then there's
Carcassonne and
Alhambra. They're somewhat similar building games. In Carcassonne you build a land with fields and castles and in Alhambra you build just one castle. Carcassonne is played with just square tiles and little... figures (sorry, my English totally fails me here xP) whereas in Alhambra you also have money cards. We have couple of expansions to Carcassonne and that game can get pretty large
Alhambra is more easily manageable and you can play it the average table. When we play Carcassonne it usually requires a floor or a very big table.
One game I really liked as a kid was
Hero Quest. It had one GM who used a thick manual full of different adventure scenarios to set the board with monsters and treasures. And it required you to actually make a character sheet even though it was a board game. I always wanted to play the Dwarf
I've seen it on auction websites even nowadays but it's always ridiculously expensive. I actually thought about getting
Doom board game because it has similar game mechanics but it just wouldn't be the same.
Other game I really liked when I was kid and think I would still like was
The Mysteries of Peking. Too bad nobody else liked it xP It was kinda like Clue.. You visit everyone and based on the things they say deduct who was the criminal.
Oh by the way! There's one childhood board game that I don't have a name for. Would someone here possibly recognize it? I seem to remember that it was about ninjas or something? I don't know. But the board itself was quite memorable. It was folded when you started the game. When your character got to a hole in the board (a vortex or whirlpool?) you opened the folded part and moved to a bigger board that unfolded. Does this sound familiar to anyone at all?
