Reply To: Let's talk about board games

This thread wasn’t meant for you, Yserbius! 🙂

I wasn’t going to bother making the speech,

but thanks for doing it.

TOO MANY QUESTIONS!

I suppose you’re right. I’ll have to correct that.

In the past decade

Let’s call it two decades, shall we? Torres, Tikal, El Grande, and

6 nimmt! (all by Wolfgang Kramer), Bohnanza (by Uwe Rosenberg),

Union Pacific (by Alan R. Moon), Vinci (predecessor of Small World),

The world has long moved past [mass-market games] … I’ve seen the frum oilem only partially embrace it (Ticket to Ride and Settlers of Catan are somewhat popular in heimishe homes)

I’m led to believe that the situation isn’t too much better

among non-Jews, where those games (and a few others, like Pandemic)

have also managed to get a spot in standard retail stores.

Seriously people, look up your local tabletop

game store (yes, such a thing exists)

I don’t think it does in Lakewood.

…and ask for a recommendation.

And then get it online for less.

I like…

You can just look at the family games chart you-know where. Be off. 🙂

(Googling those last 2 or 3 words doesn’t find it – sad, isn’t it?)

By the way, have you heard of Forbidden Desert ?

Then there’s Saboteur

A lot of hidden-role party games sound like they might be hard to play if

you can’t lie. I suppose I should ask a halachic authority about that…