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Original poster

AIBU to have only recently discovered how much fun it is playing board games with other adults?

66 replies

fourchetteoff · 15/05/2015 14:21

Is this really geeky and weird or totally normal?

Whenever we have a couple of sets of friends over for supper (about once a week0, we end up playing board games after a few glasses of wine.

Usually:
Catan
Bananagrams
Cranium
Cards Against Humanity (if the 4 bottle of wine barrier is broken)

I told my other friend about this and she thinks it's a weird thing for adults to do and like a kind of geeky-wifeswap activity Confused. I just find that I enjoy doing something other than talking about kids and work.

So do you do this too? And what games do you play?

OP posts:
Smoorikins · 15/05/2015 14:25

It's not weird.

We love CAH (cards against humanity) and Fluxx and Terry Pratchett's Discworld and His and Hers and Telestrations.

MythicalKings · 15/05/2015 14:26

YABVU for not realising until now.

Try Ticket to Ride.

thatstoast · 15/05/2015 14:29

I wish I could do it more often. I recommended 7 wonders.

kimistayingalive · 15/05/2015 14:32

That's just makes us uber-geeks here then. Our bedroom is the board game storage area and we attend a gaming club when we can as well as have friends over which play the multitude of games we all have.
Ticket to ride and Carcassonne are good games. There's also Stone Age and Kingsburg too if you want to try others.

ItMustBeBedtimeSurely · 15/05/2015 14:32

I love board games. Have you tried pandemic? Great fun for a group to play.

midnightvelvet01 · 15/05/2015 14:33

We only play once a year, when we go on holiday with my parents & sister & we get the gin out & play Pictionary when the kids are in bed! I love it!

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fourchetteoff · 15/05/2015 14:33

Thanks so far - these are great recommendations! I've had a squizz at them on Amazon and going to put them on my wish list for birthdays etc.

It does seem quite geeky to get excited by 'the longest road' etc, but it certainly is a break from "I'm not sure how socially integrated little Alfie is at pre-school" discussions which seemed to be what meeting friends became all about after we had kids.

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LapsedTwentysomething · 15/05/2015 14:38

Articulate!

SaucyJack · 15/05/2015 14:41

Envy Cards Against Humanity.

We don't play it tho. We just search through them looking for the perfect offence.

Original poster
fourchetteoff · 15/05/2015 14:43

Saucy - and there are so many, many ways to be offensive!

Love Articulate too.

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wonkylegs · 15/05/2015 14:45

Whose in the bag had us in fits of giggles

excitedbutsick · 15/05/2015 14:46

My DH and I are also very geeky and have a stack of board games on top of bookshelves. My personal favourites are Battlestar Galactica, Discworld, Cosmic Encounters and Tsuro. In fact I'm going out tonight to play Archipelago.

Takver · 15/05/2015 14:52

Yes it's geeky, yes it's great Grin
I think my most geeky one is the German language game (can't remember it's name) where you have little lorries and have to drive them around a map of Europe fulfilling haulage contracts. Even better than Ticket to Ride as you get to put roadworks in the way of the other players . . .

Takver · 15/05/2015 14:53

We also like:
Pandemic (great because it's a bit different as a co-operative game, though we always lose)
Caylus
Stone Age
Dominion
San Juan
Absolute Balderdash
Once upon a Time

I love the Boardgamegeek website, too!

loveareadingthanks · 15/05/2015 14:59

I'm dragging DP into the world of gaming geekery. Started him on Carcassonne first.

momb · 15/05/2015 15:02

YANBU for having the realisation
YABU for having it so late!

Recommend also LINKEE and 5-second rule. Very simple but hilarious answers under pressure: both these can be played with the kids too so a double bargain for the shelf.
Perudo: not technically a board game but great for adult gatherings.

FretYeNotAllIsShiny · 15/05/2015 15:09

Me,my sister and Mum used to have drunken evenings of cards and ludo. There is something very satisfying about sending your sister back to the start :D

MakeItACider · 15/05/2015 15:12

YABVU unreasonable to not include card games in there! I love playing UNO with the DC, and Skip-Bo is a lot of fun as well. They love it and it's nice to have a chance to interact with them as well.

But I love playing these games with other adults, and a glass of wine.....(or 2, or 3....)

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 15/05/2015 15:13

Ooh I LOVE board/card games, though only tend to play them with my family in Oz. There are some great ideas here Smile

Degustibusnonestdisputandem · 15/05/2015 15:13

PS we love playing Canasta (Canasty)

sleepychunky · 15/05/2015 15:16

DH and I spent 3 1/2 hours last night playing Risk with DH's best friend - we used to spend our entire Sunday afternoons doing it pre-kids, but haven't for ages. Problem was that by 11pm nobody was near winning and DH had to get up at 4am to go to work, so we had to call it a day.
I played Ticket to Ride at Christmas with my dad and brother. Can't wait till the DSs are a little bit older (7 and 5 atm) and I can teach them proper board games!

Smoorikins · 15/05/2015 15:41

MakeItaCider - Cards against humanity is a card game (as the name suggests...)

gooeycookie · 15/05/2015 15:48

YANBU!!! I love playing board games with other adults, and have recently discovered bananagrams and Settlers of Catan. The only problem is I'm so ridiculously competitive that I embarrass my poor boyfriend when we play with his friends Blush before I beat them all obviously

As a family we play Scattergories a lot, that's a good one.

Takver · 15/05/2015 15:49

sleepychunky - I reckon you'd find your two could play Carcasonne no problem, esp. if you leave out the farmers.

MythicalKings · 15/05/2015 16:00

Dixit is fun and Apples to Apple, both involve cards.