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Thrillho:
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LTK:
I recently went on a study trip* where we played a lot of board games at the lodge, although very few of them were of the 'hardcore nerd' variety. I brought my own fancy Mah Jong set, and a girl who plays it with her family a lot taught me how to play. We also played Magical Labyrinth board game - I have no idea what it's called in English - a game about moles, and Saboteur.
I'd still like to get involved in the kind of boardgames Rab Florence talks about, but even if I owned them I think I'd have trouble finding people to play it with.
*It was more of a long weekend holiday organised by the student committee, no actual studying was done
ackblom12:
The big thing about getting people to play some of the various types of board games is to ease them into it. Settlers of Catan has been a great gateway game for almost 20 years now and some folks think Carcassone is better for a gateway. I disagree simply because Carcassone has an incredibly irritating amount of scoring at the end of the game, but it's a bit less competitive so they may have a point. You can't get 'Wood for Sheep' though, so Settlers wins by default. But either way, they are both good introductions due to how they introduce a small number of mechanics in a fairly simple manner. Settlers by introducing city building, trade and expansion, while Carcassone introduces the Worker Placement genre quite well.
Once you've introduced someone to one or two accessible games, you can start expanding from there.
Edit:
--- Quote from: Akima on 18 Apr 2013, 16:06 ---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.
--- End quote ---
It's been around for as long as it has for very good reason.
GarandMarine:
Go kills me, it is a brutal game intellectually speaking, and requires a fair amount of study and effort just to be mediocre from what I understand... kinda reminds me of golf, but actually enjoyable.
Pilchard123:
Nor does Go require that you wear ridiculous clothing.
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