Adult Board Games

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Any suggestions?

Not rude ones DH and I got quite into Scrabble when I was pregnant and now we have baby DD2 our social life has took a nose dive. I know he mentioned playing Monopoly a lot as a kid too, just after some ideas.

If you like Scrabble, you might enjoy Qwordie - it's like trivia scrabble.

Kill Doctor Lucky and Munchkin are favourites here and work well with a pair or larger. Red Dragon Inn is great fun though might be a bit awkward with only two.

If you can, try to see if there is a game cafe near you so you try anything out beforehand, especially with how pricey board games can be.

Ticket to Ride
Carcassonne

If you like them Catan.

Betrayal of The House On The Hill or something like that?

Not a board game but if you like Scrabble you might like Bananagrams. Its a similar idea to Scrabble but with no board so is a faster pace.

Flash Point. It's a co-op two (to six) player game where you try and rescue people from a burning building.

Modern board games are an amazing joy. This is an excellent place to start.

Have a lookie through boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame (they're ordered by review rating) and see what's out there.

Opinionated I came to say exactly the same - Carcassone and Ticket to Ride are both brilliant!

Code names is great; there's a Duet version for just two players.

Boggle and Upwords are both good if you like word-based games. Guillotine is fun. There are also "cooperative" games like Pandemic, where all the players are a team playing against the board, so you end up doing a lot of discussion and joint decision making - an interesting variant on the standard approach,

Boku's a good one of skill to grab out and put away easily.

Card games.

Camel Up
Takenoko

Both good x

Qwirkle

Loads of the above especially camel up and ticket to ride.

Forbidden island is a collaborative game which we've actually managed to win (unlike pandemic....). Also Harbour is oddly fun and very compact!

pandemic
Ticket to Ride
Love Letters
Seven Wonders
Condottiere
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
Dominion
Fog of Love (although I've not yet played this one)

We have quite a lot of the ones mentioned above but have also just got Jaipur which is for two players and is quick to learn and play.

Pandemic. Its a cooperative rather than competitive one where you work to beat the spread of disease. Very addictive.

phyliswig we kept losing til we realised you only have to cure not eradicate the diseases to win. That helped a lot!

Phylis - don't progress to Pandemic Legacy - its impossible or we are really rubbish

DH and I spend hours playing cribbage when we go camping.

Seconding Seven Wonders, Carcassonne and Ticket to Ride, and throwing Power Grid (the king of board games) into the mix.

Backgammon is fab.

Some great suggestions here, thank you all!!

The Really Nasty Horse Race Game is good fun. It's about being cunning and devious!!

Exploding kittens! It’s from the person behind The Oatmeal.