What do teenage boys think are the best board games and best card games around?
Well, you’re about to find out because today we’re taking a peak at what Jaden considers to be the best board games, card games, and party games.
Jaden is our 14 (soon to be 15) year old son and with our board game shelves full of over 300 games, he’s played hundreds of games. He’s also at the stage where he’s pretty particular about what he spends his time doing.
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We get asked a simple question a lot this time of year. “What are the best family board games?” and “What board games should we get for our family?”
This year we’re trying something different. We thought it would be a good idea to share the perspective of each member of our family on what games they’d put at the top of such a list. So rather than just getting dad’s summary and having it go on and on with so many great board games and card games. We’re giving you the perspective of everyone else (then maybe dad will sneak something in in the end).
And we’ll start right at the top with Mom.
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Out of the Box publishing attempted to set a World Record last night of the most people playing a word game – Word on the Street.
It was conducted during half-time of the BYU / Idaho football game played in Provo, UT. And we only say “attempted” because we don’t yet know if it set a record or not. But we think it was a great way to try to set a record.
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It’s time to explore and colonize a distant alien planet. Of course, others are trying to do the same.
As with any exploration, there’s an element of luck. And Alien Frontiers is no different. In fact, Alien Frontiers is largely based on the luck of your dice rolls.
Roll and place your dice to gain the best advantages in securing resources and colonizing the most advantageous territories of this alien planet. You’ll have the make the most of every turn in order to beat out your fellow colonizers. After all, they’re trying to build the most colonies as fast as they can as well.
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Earlier this year (2012) AEG did a reset of sorts and released a new iteration of Thunderstone called Thunderstone Advance. With the first set being Thunderstone Advance: Towers of Ruin. (We say “first” because you know immediately they’ll be more to come.)
Don’t let the name fool you though. This isn’t an elevated or more difficult version of the game. Instead what AEG did was take all the fantastic things that they’d learned from the previous versions and made a streamlined game that incorporates many great refinements into one system.
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We’ll tell you right up front that FURT is a wacky party game.
Of course, that shouldn’t be any surprise if you’re familiar with Wiggity Bang Games.
Wiggity Bang games are not deep thinking, strategic board games. Instead, Wiggity Bang games are meant to bring out the party in everyone. They’re the original publishers of Quelf and Quelf Jr. which were a big hit and subsequently acquired by a larger game company.
And with FURT, they’re at it again.
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We don’t know exactly what “Fandooble” means. But it must have something to do with knights, wizards, dragons, and gold because Fandooble is a family board game (or dice game rather) that’s all about stealing gold from dragons (and other players).
Fandooble isn’t a long adventure board game like Defenders of the Realm or Fortune and Glory. Rather it’s a simple, light game of rolling unique wooden dice that’s enjoyable in its own right.
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Timeline is a light card game that’s great for families. Not only is it simple to play, but chances are you’ll learn something along the way as well.
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Our nephew (and cousin) returned last week from his 2 year church mission and we got to spend the extended weekend with their family catching up on many things as well as playing lots of board games!
Knowing that we’d be spending a long weekend at their home, and that Jake loves playing board games, we had the tough choice of which games we should first introduce him to upon his return. We wanted to take games he’d already be familiar with, but we also wanted to play games that we’ve added to our game shelves over the last 2 years that we thought he’d love.
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I just played my 100th board game this year!
And we picked a great family board game to play for the 100th different game played – Stone Age!
In January I wrote about the number of board games we played in 2011 and which games we/I played the most. By keeping track of the board games I play, it’s easy to look back and see which games I’ve played the most and how many different games I’ve played.
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