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Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Manotea on 29 December, 2020, 08:23:19 am

Title: Board Games
Post by: Manotea on 29 December, 2020, 08:23:19 am
We spent the last year playing Pandemic (winning strategy: monitor the whole board, wargame scenarios, mobilise all resources from the offset and keep a lid on outbreaks. Who knew?). Why this board game hasn't been plastered over the media, I don't know....

This year Santa brought Ticket To Ride, another winner!
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: rob on 29 December, 2020, 08:24:58 am
Ticket to Ride is a family favourite.
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Post by: ElyDave on 29 December, 2020, 08:39:31 am
Not Christmas-oriented, but Scotland Yard has become something of a favourite in our house.

That and Yahtzee played over zoom - each location has their own set of dice
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: bhoot on 29 December, 2020, 08:55:12 am
Another Ticket to Ride fan here. We have just got the on line version so that family members in different parts of the country can play together. It works really well, and was not expensive.
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Post by: Jaded on 29 December, 2020, 09:04:04 am
Taskmaster.

Was fun, as long as we agreed some tasks were not appropriate (e.g. outdoor ones)
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Post by: drossall on 29 December, 2020, 09:18:43 am
I've been given Flamme Rouge (https://www.board-game.co.uk/product/flamme-rouge/) for Christmas - a board game with a cycling theme. I have a few others of those. Not tried it yet, may do so today.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2020, 10:48:28 am
Quote from: bhoot on 29 December, 2020, 08:55:12 am
Another Ticket to Ride fan here. We have just got the on line version so that family members in different parts of the country can play together. It works really well, and was not expensive.

How does that work? Does everyone who wants to play need to buy the app?
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Post by: hatler on 29 December, 2020, 12:27:57 pm
Ticket to Ride fans here too. Might be breaking that one out this evening.

Ingenious is very good too, and can be played by two, three or four.
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: bhoot on 29 December, 2020, 09:22:55 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 December, 2020, 10:48:28 am
Quote from: bhoot on 29 December, 2020, 08:55:12 am
Another Ticket to Ride fan here. We have just got the on line version so that family members in different parts of the country can play together. It works really well, and was not expensive.

How does that work? Does everyone who wants to play need to buy the app?

Yes - everyone needs to buy the app but it's possible to have different devices - eg someone using an ipad can play in the  same game as someone using a PC. We have the PC version which you can get from Steam - it's currently (till 05 Jan) on offer at only £2.79 for the basic which is the USA, and then we also all bought the Europe extension (£1.73) and the UK extension (also £1.73).
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Post by: drgannet on 29 December, 2020, 11:46:37 pm
Quote from: Manotea on 29 December, 2020, 08:23:19 am
We spent the last year playing Pandemic (winning strategy: monitor the whole board, wargame scenarios, mobilise all resources from the offset and keep a lid on outbreaks. Who knew?). Why this board game hasn't been plastered over the media, I don't know....

This year Santa brought Ticket To Ride, another winner!

We have also rather overdosed on pandemic this year. Some of the expansions are very good too.

However, it was almost surpassed this Christmas by the Quacks of Quedlinburg.
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: bhoot on 30 December, 2020, 12:19:32 am
Quote from: drgannet on 29 December, 2020, 11:46:37 pm
However, it was almost surpassed this Christmas by the Quacks of Quedlinburg.
We cycled to Quedlinburg but saw no quacks!
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Post by: Ben T on 30 December, 2020, 12:38:01 am
Quote from: Manotea on 29 December, 2020, 08:23:19 am
We spent the last year playing Pandemic (winning strategy: monitor the whole board, wargame scenarios, mobilise all resources from the offset and keep a lid on outbreaks. Who knew?). Why this board game hasn't been plastered over the media, I don't know....

This year Santa brought Ticket To Ride, another winner!
Something involving railways will be the big thing nationally in 2021.
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: rob on 30 December, 2020, 08:57:59 am
We did buy the UK add-on to the European version of Ticket to Ride but found it unnecessarily complicated.   We probably need to give it another try.
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Post by: mattc on 30 December, 2020, 10:42:34 am
footage from Manotea's christmas has snuck out (https://twitter.com/mralistairgreen/status/1344225649955897351?s=20)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2020, 11:42:55 pm
We are playing Ticket To Ride and Pingu is assembling a rail related playlist...
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Post by: MattH on 31 December, 2020, 02:11:36 am
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers

Eldest son and his girlfriend did offer to bring some of their Monopoly variants over to play at Christmas. We declined to allow the Squabble Board into the house.
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Post by: ElyDave on 31 December, 2020, 05:50:50 am
Joe Bonomassa - This Train?
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Post by: hatler on 31 December, 2020, 10:19:41 am
Neil Young: Southern Pacific (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOnESpYhLp4)
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Post by: ElyDave on 31 December, 2020, 10:30:26 am
Johnny Cash - The 309
Elton John - This train don't stop here any more
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Post by: MattH on 31 December, 2020, 10:37:10 am
Public Service Broadcasting - Night Mail (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFJPYi3JXw4)
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Post by: drossall on 31 December, 2020, 11:46:23 am
Flanders and Swann - The Slow Train - for those of us who travel at a more relaxed pace?
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Post by: ElyDave on 31 December, 2020, 12:46:08 pm
The Notting Hillbillies - Railboard Worksong
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Post by: yorkie on 31 December, 2020, 02:40:38 pm
Night Train - Guns 'n' Roses
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
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Post by: Pingu on 31 December, 2020, 02:55:44 pm
It started with Jumping Someone Else's Train by The Cure.
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Post by: hellymedic on 31 December, 2020, 06:32:08 pm
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 December, 2020, 11:40:38 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2020, 11:42:55 pm
We are playing Ticket To Ride and Pingu is assembling a rail related playlist...

This oughter keep you entertained for an hour or Several:

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May contain more than one version of the same choon; I ent checked ;D
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Post by: Pingu on 31 December, 2020, 11:43:53 pm
Have you set the relevant album artist tags to 'His Bobness'?
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: Pingu on 31 December, 2020, 11:47:49 pm
Quote from: Mr Larrington on 31 December, 2020, 11:40:38 pm
Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2020, 11:42:55 pm
We are playing Ticket To Ride and Pingu is assembling a rail related playlist...

This oughter keep you entertained for an hour or Several:

(click to show/hide)

May contain more than one version of the same choon; I ent checked ;D

Of those, these were on it:

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry   His Bobness
Lonely Train   Explosions In The Sky
Train   Goldfrapp
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 December, 2020, 11:54:22 pm
Quote from: Pingu on 31 December, 2020, 11:43:53 pm
Have you set the relevant album artist tags to 'His Bobness'?

No, just the “Genre” ;D
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Post by: hatler on 01 January, 2021, 01:15:04 am
And don't forget this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3GcDBjQN4
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Post by: Moleman76 on 01 January, 2021, 11:58:47 am
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
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Post by: MattH on 01 January, 2021, 12:15:09 pm
Vince Dicola - Training Montage.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9FyTiq3SA   :)
Title: Re: Board Games
Post by: jwo on 03 April, 2024, 05:41:39 pm
*Attempts to re-rail this derailed thread*

Have been playing Brass Lancashire (https://youtu.be/y5sqyORSfA8?si=4f745SQY2JuCcniQ) recently. Great fun. I thought it might be too hardcore Eurogame for my liking but it's less demanding than it initially looks. It has an element of Ticket to Ride in that you lay canals and railways to make important connections and other players can thwart your network with their own lines. But more interesting and subtle than TtR.
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Post by: Pickled Onion on 03 April, 2024, 09:43:47 pm
We played Brass Birmingham recently. It's very good, though at the time I got a little annoyed that the rules changed when it goes from the canal age to the train age. In hindsight that's kind of the point, it's a very well-designed game and I look forward to playing it again.

On the topic of well-designed games, we've been playing Heat (https://www.daysofwonder.com/heat/) lately. On the face of it, it's very simple: drive your car round the track, slowing down for the bends. Brake or change gear too hard, you overheat and have to slow down. Weather means you need to change tactics, and not being in front can help if you time it right. All in all, very clever and great to play.

At the other end of the scale, Skull (https://www.daysofwonder.com/heat/) is a kind of poker with beer mats. Apparently invented by some bikers sitting at a table with a bunch of actual beer mats. £20 seems like a lot to pay for a small box of beer mats, but the game is excellent.