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We love board games, but now they're teens we can't agree which one. Help me find some new one

57 replies

ChangoMutney · 10/12/2017 09:47

We regularly play board games with our three teens (15 - 18) now they're more independent it's been great to have a fun family activity. However recently we just can't agree on what to play so clearly need to buy some new games, but what? Our regulars are, risk, monopoly, taboo, articulate, cranium, pictionary, scrabble, poker, trivia. Between the five of us each game is loved and loathed. Any ideas?

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FaithEverPresent · 10/12/2017 16:19

reckon you can get it for a fiver!

Cagliostro · 10/12/2017 21:41

Splendor
King of Tokyo
Dice forge

BrizzleDrizzle · 10/12/2017 21:45

Bananagrams is popular here. We've just bought Marrakech based on recommendation elsewhere here but that's for Xmas.

Risk is good and so is Cluedo.

We have Mapominoes but couldn't make head nor tail of it, PP can you explain a bit more please?

ButImNotOldYet · 10/12/2017 21:47

Balderdash and Carcasonne are good and Dobble is a quick one but fun (also one person can be brilliant at one version of it and terrible at the next).
We have ticket to Ride but I’m a dissenting voice and don’t like it.
We all loathe Monopoly apart from DS who loves it but never gets to play it.
Labyrinth is good and my two young teens like Cluedo too.

BlueChampagne · 11/12/2017 13:14

Second Catan and Rummikub

Mah Jongg - provided you can get some comprehensible rules (the British Mah Jongg society does a great booklet).

Smash Up

SootSprite · 11/12/2017 17:28

Dd(16) has chosen Obama Llama as this year’s Christmas game.

Stillwishihadabs · 11/12/2017 17:37

My 14yo ds loves Scotland yard (I know yours are older...)

Discusting · 11/12/2017 17:56

Sequence is great!

GetTheGoodLookingGuy · 11/12/2017 17:59

Mine and my 15yo DBs games of choice are Terraforming Mars, Settlers of Catan, Flashpoint Fire Rescue, Dixit, Carcassone and Ticket to Ride.

They love Scotland Yard and Avalon, but I find them too stressful.

Taboo, Scattergories (which I hate), Sushi Go and Bananagrams are go-tos when we're playing with others (who aren't as obsessed with board games as we are).

My gaming group have been playing a fair bit of Rummikub and Blockus recently, but they're only four-players.

ojell · 11/12/2017 18:04

I was introduced to Celestia last night - it’s simple to learn, but has a bluffing element where the game hinges on how much you trust your fellow players not to stitch you up.

Anomia is a very good card game for lots of people which is very left brain/right brain...you need to be able to do colour and pattern recognition and word association at the same time, and quicker than the rest of your family.

Neither go on too long, and both are available for under £20.

vikjul · 12/12/2017 09:12

For Sale is a very fun small game (just cards and coin tokens) that plays 3-6, highly recommended!

Nan0second · 12/12/2017 09:20

Ticket to ride
For sale
Puerto Rico (totally brilliant game)
Bohnanza
Lords of waterdeep
Bananagrams
Terraforming Mars (very long)
Through the desert
There is also a site called board game geek where you can sort games by number of players and ranking!

sadie9 · 12/12/2017 09:28

Didn't like Ticket To Ride! Spent ages researching it last year and bought it on Amazon. Opened it to play on Christmas Day and was met by blank stares which got blanker...not a runner, at all!
It just seemed to be so tedious and pedantic. I'm probably wrong about that as it seems to be fairly popular.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 14/12/2017 21:56

We have Mapominoes but couldn't make head nor tail of it, PP can you explain a bit more please?

You deal out the cards and then play like a dominoes game (on a big table or floor space) - essentially, you have to play your cards according to the other countries they border. So if I have Slovenia, I can put it next to Italy, or Austria, or Croatia, for example. But if I have Vatican City, I can only play it once Italy is played. Everyone wants to get Russia...

To account for the islands, you can play transit cards by declaring what ocean they represent.

It's great fun. We have Europe, Asia and Africa.

clearsommespace · 15/12/2017 05:43

Colt Express ( train robbery in the Wild West). It's more fun that Ticket to Ride. Personally I love TTR but it's quite a change from the sort of games mentioned in the op.

Battleax · 15/12/2017 05:50

Pandemic is really good fun.
Scotland Yard is actually scary (but fun) or maybe I'm a big wuss Smile

GeekyWombat · 15/12/2017 06:17

Favourites here are Settlers of Catan, Doninion, Lords of Waterdeep, Zombicide, Ticket to Ride.

Zombicide is a co-operative game which adds a different dynamic (and a zombie apocalypse so that’s nice!)

Frenchkippy · 15/12/2017 21:54

Have bought Trivial Pursuit 2000s which is an up-to-date Trivial Pursuit. I loved the original when I was a child so long k forward to playing the latest with the children

vitaminC · 15/12/2017 21:58

I have 6 teens/young adults, all of whom adore board games!
Current favourites are Concept, Seven Wonders and Dixit. Oh, they also like Scotland Yard and Loup Garou (not sure what that one is called in English - it's a card game involving werewolves and villagers).
I'm buying them the Settlers of Catan game for Christmas.

CornflakeHomunculus · 15/12/2017 22:01

Castle Panc is a really good fun and easy to pick up co-op game.

CornflakeHomunculus · 15/12/2017 22:01

*Castle Panic

Makingahome · 15/12/2017 22:02

www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Parent-Approved-Families-Mischief/dp/B01FST8A90?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Like cards against humanity but family friendly

bookbook · 15/12/2017 22:04

I also would suggest Dixit - great fun

malvinandhobbes · 15/12/2017 22:07

My boys are 14 and 11 and getting very choosy. We can agree on Seven Wonders, Power Grid, Isle of Skye, San Juan, evolution, dominion, rummikub and quirky.

The won't play cation any more (someone is clearly losing half way and that person always sulks). We can't play dix it because I am the only one of the three of us with adequate theory of mind.

We only play ticket to ride on my birthday and mothers day. Everyone else hates it. I adore it. They have a whole shelf of battle and d&d type games that I refuse to play.

malvinandhobbes · 15/12/2017 22:09

There was quite a bit of auto correct in the last message.

They won't play CATAN because someone is clearly losing half way.

Quirky should have been quirkle.

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