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Does anyone here like any deep-strategy games? Specifically, I’m referring to the German-style of boardgame.
Among the games I have (and play with my kids and others) are:
Settlers of Cataan
Caylus
I’m The Boss (technically not a German-style game, but a lot of fun)
Power Grid (I don’t own this one, but I borrow it sometimes)
This week I bought a new game — Wealth of Nations. It’s a very interesting game — although it took a few turns before my sons and I understood how the markets work and how the economies of the game are set up.
So, what about you? Do your gaming habits go beyond Monopoly and Risk? If so, what are they?
The Wolf
Nothing beats good old Chess
I loved Stratego! I say it in past tense since I havn’t played the game in years!
I used to love playing with my older brother these games.
1. Risk
2. Axis and Allies
3. Spy Alley
They were all games you needed to use your head in order to play… Not just randomly move pieces around…
chess wins all. kids love rummy and uno.
We love “Bannanagrams”
what is a “German-style” strategy game, may I ask?
I enjoy playing Settlers. Another game I’ve enjoyed is called Ticket to Ride.
Diplomacy.
Its similiar to Risk, but much better. Less chance and more strategy.
One can eliminate dice from Risk and thus eliminate much of the “chance”. There is a house rule to use “one-for-one” army elimination instead of dice rolling. This speeds up the game and places more emphasis on strategy. If you combine this with other house rules for distibuting and adding armies, it can be a great improvement over the traditional game.
We played it in high school history class 🙂 It was an awesome competition.
I know its a different vein, but have you tried Magic? Its somewhat luck based but still heavily skill based. I don’t play it but my cousin used to.
Well, at least I’m on the right track!
I really like Settlers of Catan too.
squeak, one for one is not correct for Risk. If you assume a 3 vs 2 roll, there are 7,776 possible roll combinations. 2,890 have the attacker winning twice (37.2%). 2,275 have the defender winning twice (29.3%). 2,611 have each winning once (33.6%). As you can see, the attacker in a 3 vs. 2 roll has the advantage. If the same number of dice are being rolled, the defender has an advantage. Therefore, one eliminates one is not a good idea.
I recall as a child learning that a game with play money (like monopoly) cannot be played on Shabbos.
Feif, good observation. The way the rule is implemented is that first the defender loses an army, then the attacker loses one, and so forth – until the attacker runs out of armies or captures the territory. Thus, if the attacker brings 3 armies and the defender has 2, the attacker will capture the territory with one occupying army. If the defender has only one army, the attacker loses nothing and captures the territory. The attacker’s advantage is intact.
But squeak, if the attacker comes with 3 vs. the defenders 2, they are each rolling 2 dice, and the defender would have the advantage, not the attacker. The attacker only gains the advantage when he rolls more dice than the defender does.
I like the original Trivial Pursuit.
Feif, it does change the game somewhat. But there are advantages to the changes and disadvantages. I did not create this house rule, it is a fairly well-known one. I think it is officially known as “no dice”.
Is that when you realized she was your basherte?
BTW are you Asian? Eeees sounds like a very foreign name.
“I had seen a special on TV about a week earlier”
Im shocked we even allow this sentance on YWN.
We have sunk so low. People are wasting shabbas playing games!
Shabbas is meant for learning and davening. Not for playing games. How about if you spent your shabbas afternoon learning with your kids instead? Besides the fact that theyll do better by learning you also wont be oiver on bittul torah.
Mosherose-
My guess is that you are one very bored teenager…
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not a teenager. I got reshus from my rosh yeshva to go to college twice a week. its usually the only Internet acess I have so that’s when I post. Im usually not online the rest of the week so I cant realy respond to other members.
And I dont bash, I ask questions and give my opinion.
But do you always do as you say? Because you usually are VERY extreme with ur opinions and it just seems like ur telling everyone what they’re doing wrong and I doubt ur doing these things yourself.
“But do you always do as you say? Because you usually are VERY extreme with ur opinions and it just seems like ur telling everyone what they’re doing wrong and I doubt ur doing these things yourself. “
im not perfect. Sometimes I slip up. But atleast Im ashamed enough about it that I dont brag about it online. I dont brag about wasting my shabbas or my kids shabbas playing games that dont mean anything.
What exactly is wrong with spending time with your kids shbbs afternoon, after you learned with them? You can’t pressure kids with learning ALL DAY.
“What exactly is wrong with spending time with your kids shbbs afternoon, after you learned with them? You can’t pressure kids with learning ALL DAY. “
Iagree that they cant learn all the time. But there are so many other things to do. Read them stories of the gedolim then. Play a torahdik game (not the ones he mentioned). Sing zemirois with them. There are lots of other good things to do rather than waste time playing games on shabbas.
Mosherose, you gotta understand that not everyone lives in the same world as your mind.
May I ask what age RANGE you are?
My world is teh torah world. In the torah world we dont waste shabbas afternoon playing games with no meaning.
Im in my 20s.
Ok. Good for you then if you can use every minute for torah. But its not very realistic todays days. But for yourself- learn torah and be as frum as you can! Kol hakovod!
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I didn’t want to start up with mosherose but I do agree with smartcookie. Mosherose-Not every one lives a life like you do and when someone wants some good ideas for a board game they’re not necessarily interested in you putting them down for playing.
“Of the six categories in the original game, my weakest category is Entertainment.”
That’s my BEST one 🙂
Actually the only one I am terrible at is Sports. I play with my married son whenever they come to visit, and I used to beat him until he insisted on using the more up-to-date edition. I am really good at this game most of the time, because my head is filled with useless trivia (LOL), but the funny thing is when I got the last wedge and my son would give me the sports question, invariably it would turn out to be something that EVEN I would know, like what sport gave Mark Spitz his olympic gold medals?
To answer Mosherose, there is nopthing wrong in spending a portion of Shabbos or ANY day, having fun. We are not ascetics, and one day after 120 years Hashem will ask each of us if we made enjoyable use of this world. Yes, we have a chiyuv to learn, but we also have a chiyuv to challenge our minds in other wholesome ways, and women, I would point out, do not sit and learn Gemarah, though we probably go to shiurim on Shabbos and other days whenever we can. I hope you enjoy your life, too.
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“My world is teh torah world. In the torah world we dont waste shabbas afternoon playing games with no meaning.”
Moshe-
You didn’t answer my question. I asked if you always do as you preach here on YW.
I also live in a torah world but I do play games and I do other things which you yell NO to.
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Geography was always my best category.
Even if I was given a current version of Trivial Pursuit, I would barely know Entertainment questions.
What about playing these board games on a computer. Either against the computer or against a live player online. What do people think of that? How does it compare to playing a board game in the living room?
I used to play Chess online against other players.
I would only play board games with other live people who are present in the same room as I. Playing with the computer is not the same fun as having human contact.
“Perhaps I can even get my daughter and one of my nieces or nephew to join in for a six player game. “
Besides bitul torah and everything else I said you shouldnt be playing games with yoru niece becasue its arayos. Since you can marry your neice yur not aloud to have any contact with her just like anyother strange woman.
“Of course, you’ve got to play with the doubling cube. :)”
The gemara says that mesacheik bkuvya is pasul for adus.
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