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toaow:

--- Quote from: StealthWar42 on May 06, 2011, 08:02:20 PM ---Anybody here like co-op games? There's this game called "Space Alert!" where you're part of a spaceship crew that has to face monsters/challenges together. It's played literally to a CD, and as the track progresses, randomly-drawn cards can come up and you have to work together as a team to try and address the situation. It lasts only 5-10 minutes too so it's pretty fast-paced and high-stress. Very fun co-op game.

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I've played Space Alert, that's the one with space monsters, and someone has to go to the control room and move the mouse to keep the screensaver from crashing the ship's computers, right? It was OK, but I remember it taking more like 30 minutes than 10.

Of the short co-op games, I like Forbidden Island (everybody grab the loot and ride the chopper off of the sinking island before it vanishes underwater) and Saboteur (some Dwarves want to team up to find the gold, others want to keep them from finding it). If everybody's up for a 3-hour game, I really enjoy Battlestar Galactica - frakkin' toasters always win my games, though.

StealthWar42:
BSG was an awesome game. My old group of friends in college would make it very tricky... half of them were psych majors so of course they loved some of the more deceptive parts to it. I recall after sleeper phase, it would take an hour just to make it around the table once because everybody was in ridiculous amounts of secret meetings...

Didn't help that we pushed the original game's limits though for up to 8 people.

fohfoh:
Saboteur is a great game to get non-regular gamers to play games and begin to teach them basics such as deceptions, teamwork and objectives.

Haven't played lost Island, but I bought Pandemic. But I haven't played it either.


For "board game noobs", I'd recommend these games to get them to begin understanding resource management and deception and teamwork....

Saboteur
Settlers of Catan (minus expansion)
Bang! (little higher up)
Dutch blitz (speed and card understanding//// play the male/female variation. Read the instructions, there's about 2-3 variations to the normal color counting version)


Really want to learn bridge/rook though. I played spades and it was interesting.

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