Card & Board Games: name your favorites

[shadowcat546]

My favorites in card games:
The Great Dalmuti (Wizards of the Coast co.) !!!!! Rocks!!!
Pit (card game, I have the 70's orange one & the modern deck)
X-men Monopoly
----------Shannon, shadowcat5462002 - yahoo

[Savantage]

UNO!!! you get two or three decks and pile the players around and see who get stuck picking up the most cards for the 'draw 2s'*rotfl* *rotfl* another name for it is : screw the nieghbor

[Buxom Wench]

when I can find someone to play the game.... backgammon. memories of highschool.

[BryanPopp]

In a party situation with lots of close friends try Loaded Questions. It is a riot.
::::warning::::: This game can get you in trouble::laughingdevil::

[Pathos]

I get a kick out of internet Backgammon but my main favorite board game has always been RISK.

World domination baby!!!

::rocknroll::

[Lady Litania]

Disney Scene It, Harry Potter Scene It, Harry Potter trivia, (first one), We picked up a game at a game shop down the shore a few years back that is kind of like Uno, but with litte pigs. I forget the name of it off hand tho.....

[Vixynne Rose]

I like "Balderdash"...a game where you try to decide which definition of a bizarre word is the REAL one, and which ones were made up by the other team to bluff you.

It must be my inner English teacher...I just love word games...oh, and Scattergories too!

[LadyLewis]

i have no faves - no one plays around here. online i like canasta

[Margaret]

Uno rocks! I have been playing it with HG since she's been about 5. Nothing made her happier than beating me at that game. It was pretty sad when she still beat me when I did not even throw the game anymore :lol:

Trouble, Parchesie(sp?), Sorry are still some of my favorite games.

[townspaniard]

texas holdem, rummie, hearts, double solitare, and
spider solitare on the pc. I love a good card game

[Perin]

Uno's good, but Uno Attack is better.

http://www.areyougame.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=MA41943

Same basic idea, but instead of just drawing a card off the deck you push a button which will shoot zero to a sh*t load of cards at you.

Risk and Parchessi also rock.

[CrystalB]

I love Scene It games, Uno, Mah Jong, and various others.

[willow of the wooded fortress]

Scrabble! I am a total geek for scrabble.

[Rhia]

Cards: Canasta

Board Games:
Acquire
Taboo
CatchPhrase
Split Second
Kill Dr. Lucky (LOVE CheapAss Games!!)

Oh, and dominos - Mexican Train Dominos.... played it all through vacation last week

[KaLeaAnne]

Board game - Dark Tower
Cards - cribbage, rummy, skip-bo

[Apropos]

Card game: Hand and Foot...or as I call it, Piss and Moan. Frustrating and fun, It's a great partner game.

Board games: Cribbage with my Da. Monopoly (England is now offering a game with Debit Cards instead of cash and instead of winning a beaty pagent, one wins a reality show) Trivia Pursuit. I love that game.

[Buxom Wench]

I can't believe I forgot my favorite card game! EUKRE !!
Played hours and hours after school...... WOW!

[Mistress Lisette]

Board games (even though I suck badly :lol:): chess, Cathedral & Scrabble
Card games: Hmmmmm, don't really play any card games other than War...

[Gellis Indigo]

Name that Video, 80's audition. I'll never forget the first time we played with another couple and the hubby shouted out "Kajagoogoo!" Everyone else looked at hime like, "What the......?"

[wendyzski]

I kick some serious ass at Balderdash! My local peeps usually spot me an extra half-loop to even up the odds. I also like Chrononauts, and anything from Steve Jackson or Cheapass Games

We have a bi-weekly gaming group at the home of some friends, and have from 4-12 people.

[lady Amalthea]

Hmmm... let's see
Song burst
Morgan's revenge
Scattergories
canasta
poker

[Laurensa]

Trivial Pursuit--just got the Book Lover's Edition, but I haven't had a chance to play it yet...and Scrabble. I used to play Scrabble with my mom a lot, and she was GOOD.

I also liked the old version of Life, but the newer version isn't nearly as much fun.

My husband and I turn into bloodthirsty competitors when we play Air Hockey...

[saphoenixsilver]

Cards:
Poker
ERS

Board:
Scrabble
Monopoly

Not sure what it would fall under, but also Shag Marry or Kill

[Torra]

I don't really play board games, and there's only one card game where I'll seek out other people to play with. Too bad no one else plays it. :lol:

Card game: Whist

[Vixynne Rose]

Oooooh, I forgot Song Burst! There's an 80's edition of that, hard to find but it's SO much fun...I played once with the spouse, and another married couple (girls vs. guys). We were unstoppable! The guys kept trying to get us to accept a handicap to play, LOL...we wiped the floor with 'em. They ended up pouting over it. ::snort::

[lady Amalthea]

Oooooh, I forgot Song Burst! There's an 80's edition of that, hard to find but it's SO much fun...I played once with the spouse, and another married couple (girls vs. guys). We were unstoppable! The guys kept trying to get us to accept a handicap to play, LOL...we wiped the floor with 'em. They ended up pouting over it. ::snort::

I have the 80's edition, I had to find a used game site to buy it. It cost me $60, but it was a b-day present for my best friend so it was worth it.

[Mistress CATrina]

Scattergories, Uno, Trouble, Checkers, Chess, Scene-It games, Moods, Monopoly

[Lady Litania]

Scattergories, Uno, Trouble, Checkers, Chess, Scene-It games, Moods, Monopoly

Oh my gosh! I LOVE Moods! It is so funny trying to figure out which "mood" someone is trying to portray. I also have this old game that came out in the 80's called Fireball Island. The game board is HUGE!

I like the game Trouble also. We've got the original one, the box is like from the 60s or 70s, not sure which. I am sure it is one of the first editions though. I also (of course) have Stitch Trouble.

Uno decks, we have an old set, a Harry Potter set & I think a Care Bears set that someone got for me.

I have at least 3 or 4 different kinds of Monopoly games. I know I have the Star Wars, Scooby-Doo, Disney & regular. I don't recall if I have a Harry Potter one or not though. If not, I want one.

[Rhonda_Melones]

Being the total geek that I am I LOVE Hero Quest:-D Oh and all my friends and family insist I make the best villain/gamemaster so I have to take the role when we play (which is cool cuz I LOVE being mean to the critters on the board;). I also LOVE these two games a friend introduced to me a couple of months back, one is kind of like group solitare and the other involves cretins and peons (can't remember the name of it but it has its own cards).

Skipping down memory lane though, my favorite board games are Mousetrap and Hungry Hungry Hippos (does that qualify as a board game?:)

[Mistress CATrina]

I have at least 3 or 4 different kinds of Monopoly games. I know I have the Star Wars, Scooby-Doo, Disney & regular. I don't recall if I have a Harry Potter one or not though. If not, I want one.

Hehehehe, I know you'll love this: I've got CATopoly! My cousin & her hubby have Elvisopoly & Nascar Monopoly.

[Rhonda_Melones]

Oh my gosh! I LOVE Moods! It is so funny trying to figure out which "mood" someone is trying to portray. I also have this old game that came out in the 80's called Fireball Island. The game board is HUGE!

ACK! I LOVED Fireball Island!!! OMG I forgot all about that game:-D I also forgot to mention earlier I used to LOVE playing the Ghostbusters board game, you get to knock people down the stairs and drop boulders on them LOL I think 13 Dead End Alley (or something like that) is similar but there aren't as many booby traps and they aren't as cool:)

[Lady Litania]

Hehehehe, I know you'll love this: I've got CATopoly! My cousin & her hubby have Elvisopoly & Nascar Monopoly.

:bow: I SO want the CATopoly! I found another one on Amazon.com called Lighthouse-opoly.

[Lady Litania]

ACK! I LOVED Fireball Island!!! OMG I forgot all about that game:-D I also forgot to mention earlier I used to LOVE playing the Ghostbusters board game, you get to knock people down the stairs and drop boulders on them LOL I think 13 Dead End Alley (or something like that) is similar but there aren't as many booby traps and they aren't as cool:)

My Fireball Island game is complete except for the instruction manual. I am still searching for it on Ebay & stuff. Most of the time, they want to sell it with the game, which I already have. I would settle for a photocopy of the instruction manual in its entirety at this point.

[Rhonda_Melones]

My Fireball Island game is complete except for the instruction manual. I am still searching for it on Ebay & stuff. Most of the time, they want to sell it with the game, which I already have. I would settle for a photocopy of the instruction manual in its entirety at this point.

Have you tried contacting the company who makes it (I think it was Milton Bradley wasn't it?) maybe they have it in an archive somewhere or could tell you where you could get it. What about one of those retro sites like 80s.com?

[Jessa]

Board games:
Settlers of Catan
Settlers of the Stone Age
All the Mayfair rail builder games, especially EuroRails, and - for smaller groups - Nippon Rails. More than three people trying to build in southern Japan is just too much.
RoboRally, best game ever!
Ticket to Ride

Card games:
Three Dragon Ante
Gother Than Thou
Chez Geek
Chez Goth
Lunchmoney
Unexploded Cow
Who's Got the Brain