| ▲ | ungreased0675 a day ago |
| Would you recommend a few that are beginner friendly and available at my local board game shop? |
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| ▲ | peeters 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Parks for a novel game design, gorgeous artwork and tactile pieces. Mid complexity. Pandemic Legacy for one of the best experiences you'll have with the same group of friends over months (cooperative, play through once over 12-24 sittings). The game builds in complexity as you play so it starts reasonably simple (though the first season starts with the basic ruleset of Pandemic so if you've played that it's a head start but not necessary). Kingdomino and Cascadia for quicker terrain building games, I consider these fairly similar though Kingdomino is quicker and simpler. These I can play with anyone. Paperback if you already like word games like Scrabble etc, and want to dip into playing a deck building game. The Crew if you like trick-taking card games, it's a co-op variant to games like Bridge or Euchre. Carcassone is an oldie but goodie. Very social compared to many competitive games, as though it's turn based everyone wants to have their say for what you should do with your piece. Compared to e.g. Wingspan where you're largely ignoring/out of the loop for what's going on with everyone else all the time. |
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| ▲ | roygbiv2 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Played Pandemic Legacy over the course of probably a couple of years with some friends, gee it took some time but we got there in the end. | | |
| ▲ | frollogaston 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I played like 3 rounds of that in December 2019. Ingame, a novel virus with no known cure spawned in China. |
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| ▲ | daedrdev a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Dune: Imperium" for a more competitive and strategic game (there are several board games for dune but they only share the theme, don't get confused) Wingspan if you don't want to be aggressive against other players Cascadia for shorter game that supports low player counts Azul is another shorter game The isle of cats is a personal favorite, very neat game about packing cats on your boat Red Rising has an excellent board game if you've ever read the book. |
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| ▲ | dapperdrake 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Space Alert (very interactive) Kind-of a board game: 7th continent | | |
| ▲ | Attrecomet 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Vlaada Chvatil games just tickle something for me. Space Alert is hugely fun, probably best due to the chaos and also the fact that at least we can see the inevitable failure that's coming together, and nobody is the lonely runt, but so is Galaxy Trucker, Dungeon Lords, and as a quick social game, Codenames. |
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| ▲ | stoneman24 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | I recently joined a board game club after many years away from the hobby.
I’ll echo the recommendations above. Scored wins in Azul and Loot. Played Isle of cats and Wingspan. Games around the 3-4 players seem to have best flow and pace. I may buy wyrm (sister game to wingspan) just for the card designs. I did play a game of Twilight Imperium for 12 hours, which I won. Mostly newbie’s but with a host who’s provided guidance on the rules. Great fun but perhaps something to work up to. | | |
| ▲ | daedrdev a day ago | parent [-] | | I agree on the 3-4 player idea, more players is hard because people have too much downtime. I enjoy and have played several games of Twilight Imperium but you need a good group who are willing to play fair even if the game is hopeless for themselves. | | |
| ▲ | stoneman24 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, that was a point that my twilight imperium host was very keen on, keeping everyone engaged in the game. Even when a player situation wasn’t looking good, he took them aside and pointed out options for them to get back in the hunt for victory points. It’s very easy for a player to go “rogue” and spoil the game for the other players. |
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| ▲ | frollogaston 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Coup is a good all-rounder. One of the few games that works for 2 or more players. Easy, simple, and not too long. You can even play with a standard 52-card deck if you want. Diplomacy is a masterpiece and surprisingly beginner-friendly, but it's very hard to get a game going, cause first off you need exactly 7 people. I played online with friends on Backstabbr.com, and yeah it only took 5 minutes a day, but each game lasted 1-2 months. Or it'd be 2-4 hours in-person. |
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| ▲ | frollogaston 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh yeah, forgot to mention the 2-player game I invented that requires no pieces. It's based on haggling. Designate one player as the seller of an imaginary product and one as a potential buyer. The buyer needs a random secret number B from 50-100 which is the max they can pay, and the seller needs S from 0-50 which is the min they'll sell for. Use an RNG if you have one, otherwise you can do it yourself: Have both think of two random numbers from 0-100. Each says one number but not the other. Add the other person's number to your secret one, mod by 50, then add 50 if you're the buyer. Negotiate over the price until either a sale is made at P or someone unilaterally kills the deal. Seller wins (P - 50) points, buyer wins (50 - P). If the deal dies, seller loses S points, buyer loses (B - 50). I hope I remembered these right. Then switch sides and repeat. |
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| ▲ | snarf21 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Just One (best party game ever designed)
Splendor (intro to "engine builder" games)
Carcassonne (intro to tile laying games)
Sushi Go (intro to "drafting" games)
Scout (intro to climbing/shedding card games) All of these are very inexpensive and rules light and very approachable for beginners. |
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| ▲ | frollogaston 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I liked Colony which is vaguely like Splendor, but it's not cheap. And I liked Splendor. |
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