I've always loved Axis & Allies. I have the original board game, and had the old computer version. However I can't get it or the new game to run on my mac windows emulator. Not sure if the link Daer posted would work.

Game Table Online also has the game, but I've only ever been able to load it, not play it.

I've never played the Europe or Pacific theater versions, and I understand there is a 1942 version out as well. Anyone play them?

The drinking game is always fun to play with it too. Makes the last few moves very interesting.

balderdash!

I have Catan on XBL if anyone wants to play.

Link was screwed up, fixed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TripleA_(computer_game)


I believe it works on Mac OS X

parchessi is a classic fav of mine

oh, and I don't know if anyone mentioned "go" but that game is incredible

This game sounds kinda like the game Torres I played once with my friends about 6 years ago. Was pretty amusing and could be fun with a good group of people. One guy just got high and wasn't even too interested in trying.

Agricola
Le Havre
Battlestar Galactica
Endeavor
Caylus

round out my top five at the moment

My son and I enjoy escape games. There are hundreds of them available free on different sites.

Here is a decent list of some

http://www.freegamesnews.com/en/?page_id=1361

I'm pretty sure my sister & i only exist so that my father could round out a games playing group. He has now stripped out my own bedroom and now you can barely get into the room for all the games.

Unfortunately for him I really like the simple games. Midnight Party is awesome.

+1

Greatest game there is. Don't tell BoBo.

I'll try and think of some of the good ones we've played, but i suck with names.

There's newish one that's very good as either HU or multiway that has a hexagon grid and you have to place pieces that have one of six symbols on and you score based on making chains of the same symbols. In the end your score is determined by the symbol that you have scored worst in. The endgame can be quite strategic.

Acquire is a classic, there was one about building a sheepfarm and fencing in land that was really good, there was another one i liked that involved building a giagantic moorish palace, and a good one about sailing to the west indies in search of gold.

Oooh. sorcerer's cave and mystic forest are real classics.

Lost Cities needs a mention, not strictly a board game but you can play it on BSW - 2 players only.

LOL. My wife should have used this line in trying to convince me to have another kid, "But you'll be able to play 3-player board games."

The bolded game def. and 9 Navies War + an oldie called OGRE/GEV. I also like Wings of War especially now that they added Billy Bishop in his S.E. 5a
Never have enough time to play everything I'd like and Diplomacy has never, ever been completed f2f only through Dipbounced (online)

I'm not a big fan of Euro type games but have played a few and the only one I really would play again is Spacefarers of Catan.

Card Games are big in my house and my wife and I play a great deal of Cribbage and a variation called Cross Cribb. We've only had the Cross Cribb for about 2 months and it sees the most table time of all our games right now.

I have this (travel edition) + Blokus Trigon and 3D. Trigon is the best of the group IMHO and is the favorite of the group of friends I get together with most often.

The games that currently get the most play here are
1) Race for the Galaxy, card game, resource driven, lots of strategy. So good.
2) Galaxy Trucker. I could see serious gamers getting annoyed by this game, as it's pretty random, and you kind of do the same thing over and over (build spaceships, watch them get destroyed). All my friends (and even my wife, who never plays games) have had a lot of fun with it though.

Re: Lost Cities and BSW--I believe they're removing it from BSW actually as well as FlexGames. Odd decision, I think, since I bought LC as a result of playing it on BSW. It is a great 2-player game.

RFTG is a good one, but not a game I suggest trying to learn on your own. It's best if someone can teach it to you, cuz that **** is confusing

I like the games that have a gamblers feel to them like Yahtzee, Uno, Dominos, Rook, or Spades.

There is this class that I am thinking of but can't remember the name of. It might have already been mentioned. Its something where there is a hexagonal board-grid. You have white and black pieces and you try to move and push the other player off the edge. Does that ring a bell with anyone?

The eurogame scene (and board/table gaming in general) scene is really interesting these days. I've only played the basics so far, mostly what's already been mentioned:

* Carcassonne (standard and with River expansion, which the US edition comes with standard)
* Settlers of Catan (3 & 4 player, also 2 player using the official Teuber variant)
* Ticket to Ride (standard US map; have played the Europe & Swiss maps on the PC/online engine)

they're pretty fun & good alternatives to monopoly/risk. in some ways they remind me of concrete implementations of PC gaming ideas - Catan as a tabletop version of the Civ series, for instance.

Abalone is the game you're thinking of, I think. I remember playing it a couple times and liking it.
If you like abstract strategy games like that, the Gipf series is good...I like Yinsh a lot, but Dvonn gets a lot of love too.

I like Guillotine . It doubles as a great drinking game.

Ctrl-F "Puerto Rico" No results found . Probably my favorite of all time. Almost no luck involved, every game plays different, relatively simple, but incredibly complex in terms of strategy. It all involves around planning what your opponents do and adapting.

As much as I like Settlers of Catan, and Ticket to Ride, they are really simple games compared to a lot of the other really good board games out there.

Do have to give props for the people who said Battlestar Galactica and Race for the Galaxy. Race for the Galaxy is a lot like Puerto Rico, but more complex and more luck involved.

Battlestar Galactica is a game anyone who enjoys werewolf has to check out. Everyone is dealt out a card at the beginning of the game, and again at the half way point. These cards either label you as good or bad, and the bad ones try to secretly hurt the good characters anyway they can. This has caused some heated arguments with me and my friends over what reads people have.

Also for other fun complex games, check out Power Grid and Agricola.

what is the teuber variant? or do you just mean using the bought game?

hmm, I thought I had mentioned Puerto Rico in my post, but I guess not. I just picked up a copy on clearance at a local shop, but haven't played it yet. I'd heard good things about it, though, and watched a video review of it, so it looks like it'll be fun.

Also it flipflops in the #1/#2 position at boardgamegeek with Agricola.

Have heard lots of recommendations for Power Grid - Pandemic, too. Hope to try some of those out sometime soon.

Oh yeah Pandemic is a lot of fun. Players vs the game, and requires a lot of strategy and a lot of fun.

Agricola and Puerto Rico are a lot alike, except there is a lot more going on in Agricola.