LoC #62 - Top 50 Tabletop Games

[Johnny Unusual]

Great list!  A lot of fun.  BTW, Scrabble was my number 2 too.

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Only heard this song for the first time a couple years ago, but this is still a great song.

D & D is a very fun game.  I DMed a few years back after playing 2 fun campaigns (one I was a drunken monk and the other I crossclassed to become a Bard-barian.  The latter was VERY potent.  I also had a guitar-axe I called my Cherry Axe) and it was a lot of fun, but we just never found the time to keep going, which was a shame, since I had some fun stuff I never got to (we did get to do a murder mystery though).

Scrabble is another all time favourite.  Played against my aunt recently.  She's a pretty hardcore player.  Only beat her once.

BTW, don't forget to vote for the next LoC, in the place to be:
http://forum.rifftrax.com/index.php?topic=25593.0

[Tripe]

1.   Chess
2.  Backgammon
3.   Stratego
4.   Xiangqi
5.   Mastermind
6.   Mah-jong
7.   Go
8.   Cripple Mr. Onion (really, the real world version is tons of fun)
9.   Jamaican Dominoes
10.   Hnefatafl
11.   Enochian chess
12.   Othello/Reversi
13.   Chaturaji
14.   Five Crowns
15.   Risk
16.   Trivial Pursuit
17.   Senet
18.   Royal Game of Ur
19.   Nine Men's Morris
20.   Cluedo
21.   Draughts
22.   Alquerque
23.   Hex
24.  Snakes and Ladders
25.   Ludo

Did I miss any? I did uncommonly well on this one.

[Johnny Unusual]

My list:

1. Dungeons & Dragons
2. Scrabble
3. Trivial Pursuit
4. Scattergories
5. Magic: the Gathering
6. Apples to Apples
7. Ticket to Ride
8. Puerto Rico
9. Carcassonne
10. Once Upon a Time
11. What?
12. Paranoia
13. Dominion
14. Pictionary
15. Chess
16. Poker
17. Monopoly
18. Risk
19. Shadow Run
20. Balderdash
21. Diplomacy
22. Cards Against Humanity
23. Taboo
24. Crokinole
25. Cribbage

[Asbestos Bill]

# 2: Chess

Related Games that Received Votes:
Checkers for the board, Go and Candyland for the strategic options.

And Shogi!



On a related note, I (and Gilly) can't believe how mainstream you guys are. You guys are so mainstream; I gotta get you some underground...

Dominion
Hive
Settlers of Catan
Shogi
Bohnanza
Carcassonne
Magic: The Gathering
Risk: Legacy (but *not* Risk)
GURPS
D & D
Ticket to Ride: Europe
Castle Panic
Vegas Showdown
Munchkin Quest
Star Trek Expeditions
No Thanks
Pentago
Brawl
Godzilla Smash
Caribbean Star
Munchkin
Light Speed
Fudge
Starbase Jeff
Kill Doctor Lucky

and I recently played Give Me the Brain again, and I had forgotten how fun it is.

[Asbestos Bill]

Also:

[Tripe]

# 2: Chess

Related Games that Received Votes:
Checkers for the board, Go and Candyland for the strategic options.

And Shogi!

And

4.   Xiangqi
10.   Hnefatafl
11.   Enochian chess
13.   Chaturaji

[Johnny Unusual]

And don't forget the expansions.

[Tripe]

There are actually a fairly large number of fairy pieces out there.

[Compound]

Bill, you still had three of your top five place.

My list, BTW.

• Dungeons and Dragons
• Chess
• Champions
• Monopoly
• Settlers of Catan
• Gurps
• Poker
• Car Wars
• Talisman
• Magic the Gathering
• Go
• Werewolf
• Risk
• Munchkin
• Clue
• Axis and Allies
• Supremacy
• Ace of Aces
• Ticket to Ride
• Starfleet Battles
• Arkham Horror
• Illuminati
• Blood Bowl
• Lost Worlds
• Kill Dr. Lucky

I'm a bit surprised that I'm the only one who mentioned Werewolf. Especially since it's played on this forum.  And being advertised for on this page.

[Tripe]

I don't think of Werewolf/Mafia as a tabletop game, same way I don;t think of spin the bottle as such, it's a social game but not tabletop.

[Asbestos Bill]

Bill, you still had three of your top five place.

I must have missed something... [EDIT} Yep. Several pages worth... You people have redeemed yourselves somewhat, but are still more boring than I ever imagined

Kudos for having Ace of Aces on there, though I don't know that I'd count it as a table top game.

My dad bought Arkham Horror a while ago, but we never played it :/ Co-op games are pretty cool though.

[Asbestos Bill]

Nice writeups by the way. I'm a fan of purple and orange as well; our house is decorated in it (which you'd know if you actually came to a QT showing  )

[ColeStratton]

Pretty table-tastic list, y'all. Here's mine:

1.   Euchre (sad I was the only one to include this -- it's seriously addicting, but it needs 4 people to play it and they all have to be into it for it to be fun)
2.   Trivial Pursuit
3.   Apples to Apples
4.   Encore (it's a singing board game that is hard to find but a lot of fun)
5.   Liar’s Dice
6.   Catch Phrase
7.   Scrabble
8.   Texas Hold ‘Em Poker
9.   Pass the Pigs (you roll pigs -- what is wrong with you people?)
10.   Taboo
11.   Solarquest (Monopoly....IN SPACE!)
12.   Trouble with the Pop-o-Matic Bubble
13.   Yahtzee
14.   Risk
15.   Gin Rummy
16.   Golf (card game)
17.   Hungry Hungry Hippos
18.   Dungeons and Dragons
19.   Uno
20.   Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (The Role Playing Game)
21.   Rummikub
22.   Pictionary
23.   Mille Bornes
24.   Sorry!
25.   Settlers of Catan

[Asbestos Bill]

9.   Pass the Pigs (you roll pigs -- what is wrong with you people?)

We had Pass the Pigs. Sort of a surrealist version of Craps.

[D.B. Barnes]

Wow, only four of mine didn't make it. I'm so generic.

1. Trivial Pursuit
2. Scrabble
3. Hearts
4. Monopoly
5. Gin
6. Scattergories
7. UNO
8. Chutes and Ladders
9. Poker
10. Boggle
11. Taboo
12. Checkers
13. Blackjack
14. Tiddlywinks
15. Pictionary
16. Go Fish!
17. Trouble
18. Chess
19. Rock'em Sock'em Robots
20. Clue
21. Mousetrap
22. Operation
23. Candy Land
24. LIFE
25. Electric Football


Thanks for drivin' the list, Compound.