Board games, card games.....you get the gist

[Dominus]

I've always loved playing board or card games, but until I came here for school, I pretty much only played at familly gatherings. Now I play Magic: The Gathering at least once a day, on Sundays for about 6 or so hours, as well as other games such as Settlers of Catan (GREAT game), Hex, Hex (ADDICTIVE), Cranium(good fun for all!), and of course, poker and the like. I just can't get enough of them, though especially Magic. Any other board or card game players here?

[Erfael]

Used to play quite a lot of chess, but that's tailed off now in favor of go(http://playgo.to/interactive). In addition I have a poker group that we try to get together once a month or so, but we're now coming from a hundred or so miles apart to play, so don't make it every month. Besides that, I'm a word game junkie, Scrabble, Bethump'd With Words, Captivation--and a trivia game junkie, Trivial Pursuit and the like. I also really like abstract strategy, but other than the really big games--chess and go--it's hard to find anyone to play those.

[saintjon]

I got a chance to play the A Game of Thrones board game by fantasy flight games about a couple months ago and it was huge fun, one of the best strategy board games I've seen.

[Archren]

I love strategy board games! I don't get to play them as often as I like, but I do love 'em.

Risk, and many of its variants.
Web of Power
Carcasonne
All the Catan games
Trivial Pursuit is a different category but I love it too.
Monopoly
Weird games like "Kill Dr. Lucky" and "Devil Bunny Needs a Ham" from the amazingly wonderful Cheapass Games company.
Peurto Rico

All sorts of games.

[Dominus]

Hehe, the cool thing is that I can probably find any card or board game that people post here that is available in the US, since there is this awesome store near me that has tons of them. Is the Game of Thrones game really, really good? I mean, I have so many chances to play card and board games now that I'm always looking for something new to get.

[Eventine]

I don't mind a good game of Cribbage or 500.
I used to be massively into Magic: The Gathering around 5 years ago, but haven't even looked at my cards in yonks. I did buy the X Box game of it though.

[Dominus]

I'm actually in a Magic draft right now, I've only been playing a few months but I'm already addicted to it, I carry my decks with me everywhere at school just in case someone is up for a game, and someone usually is.

[saintjon]

Dominus: In a word YES! It most certainly is really really good, and I've been told that if you get the expansion it's even better. There is no board game I can see myself wanting to play more.

[Dominus]

In that case, I'll pick it up next month when I have money, the great thing about going to my school is that someone is always willing to play a game with you. You should see how many people play Dungeons and Dragons, and with Dave Arneson as a teacher......I won't even go into that, lol.

[saintjon]

Awesome hope you like it!

My gaming groups are all scattered all over the place now. Such a bummer. Internet gaming gets me in touch wiht some of them, but then there's the hundred thousand morons to contend with also.

[Dominus]

Too true, it seems that online game attracts lots of really unlikable people.

[Expendable]

I never really got into CCG's but I used to love playing Uno.

I liked a lot of different board games.
Chess
Monopoly
Mousehunt
Life
Clue
Sorry

[Miriamele]

The funnest board game I've played is Balderdash, but I also love Scattergories. Trivial Pursuit can be fun too if you have a good set of cards.

I was at Toys 'R Us the other day and I couldn't believe how many Lord of the Rings board games are out there. There's LOTR Trivial Pursuit, LOTR Monopoly, LOTR Chess, as well as a separate adventure-quest type board game for each of the three movies. Also there's a miniature-figure trading game or some such thing and the regular card-based games. And I won't even mention the number of action-figures available. What a merchandizing bonanza!

[Blackwing]

I prefer face to face, pen and paper roleplaying games to board games but I've played both quite a bit.

Monopoly and Talisman are fun but currently my favourite is one of the LotR games: LotR the board game. Hobbit is also nice for a quick and easy play.

On the CCG front I've played Magic and Star Trek: TNG games and my current favourite is LotR CCG. Hmmm... I can see a pattern here...

I'd love to try out the new DC and Marvel superhero CCGs. Has anybody played them?

[hoard]

Some of my favorite games are Scrabble, Mastermind and Uno.