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Thrillho:
I love board games but my sister and her husband are so damn good at it that I frequently wonder why I bother playing against them. My dad is so bad at it that we once advised him on every turn and he ended up winning. It was hilarious.
I fucking love Risk. My dad and I were showing my best friend how to play it, we said to teach him the rules we'd do 3 rounds and then start over.
I won in 3 rounds.
My buddies went through a major monopoly phase at uni. We played it several times a week for a few months. It was wonderful.
Game and Watch Forever:
The only Risk I ever played was some... poorly made Game Boy (Color? Advance?) game that I don't think did it right. Most people tell me don't bother with actual, regular Risk... they're people whose opinions I trust, but at the same time I feel like it's something I should try for myself so I have my own take on it.
I do want to get a copy of Risk Legacy and get some friends to play weekly since it sounds like a fun little journey. Though the thought of tearing up some of the components or writing on the board is enough to make me want to curl into a ball and cry. I guess I could toughen up if it's an actual game requirement though....
Akima:
I play weiqi (AKA Go, Igo, Baduk). I have played a few other board games, but none has exerted any long-term attraction. The game's history, simplicity, enormous depth, and sheer spare elegance draw me back to the board again and again.
I don't understand the appeal of Monopoly at all; I find it very very boring. Probably you need the right group.
snalin:
I've played some rounds of Hnefatafl, the old, nordic board game. It's pretty cool - it's asymmetric, and kinda balanced towards one of the players, so you have to figure out a way to work around that (usually by counting number of rounds to win).
pwhodges:
I've barely played any board games since my mid-teens, when I played Halma for a time. Since then I've just played Monopoly a couple of times, which just seemed to be a generator for bad feelings, and Campaign, which did the same.
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