I need a new board game

[hertamaniac]

Brought back some great memories and a now funny memory of my brother hitting me with the board after I broke a verbal treaty to not attack him. I grew up in a neighborhood where our porches served as gatherings for board games. Since it was all males who played them, we were into war games.

Risk - often made "fruit loops" of the plastic pieces when someone lost badly.
Axis & Allies - My all-time favorite.
Stratego - one of our neighbors, would purposely drop his own piece so I could see it only to have me close my eyes so he could replace it after looking where my flag was.
Diplomacy - this one induced face slapping's.
Luftwaffe - too complex to play but loved the board layout and pieces.

 

[livih99]

One of my favorites is Betrayal at House on the Hill. It's a great game for smaller groups (I think it goes up to 6 players?) and has great replayability

 

[bluezy]

I don't play any of these games but the teens/adults in our family seem to enjoy (and spend many hours playing them):

Ticket To Ride
Carcassonne
Catan

 

[Lumpy1106]

We got the Target version of Life over Christmas - it is surprisingly good.

I've never had any luck with any of the Disney themed games. It's like they thought just slapping a Disney sticker on it would make it entertaining - it does not. We especially hated "Toy Story Obstacles and Adventures" - a cooperative game that is just dull out of the box. Only exception would be the Disney Trivial Pursuit games - those are good.

 

[ftbaker1313]

My son got us interested in the new verison of Dark Tower. Orginal came out in the 80s or 90s.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Definitely Uno
Rack-O
Sorry
Scrabble
Scattergories
A memory match game can be fun, too

 

[DersMaha]

It sounds like you have some awesome memories attached to board games from your childhood. Games like Risk, Axis & Allies, and Stratego bring back nostalgic moments for many of us.