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Board Game Recommendation: Viticulture

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Disclaimer: while the publisher is local to me (and works for my alma mater), I have no direct connection to the company or the game.

Viticulture

Viticulture was released earlier this year, and its climbed into second place on my list of favorite games. It's a worker-placement game with a good , well-integrated theme of wine-making, the ability to use a variety of paths to victory, and a rule-set you can teach to preteens, or even yourself. It has enough variation and luck that games are different every time you play them, but little enough the better players will still do very well.

You can find it online at eBay or Boardgamegeek. The standard version will sell for around $50, and the expanded version (called Aboriculture) will go for about $110 (it's not worth the extra money unless you are a big fan or a collector). There will also be another Kickstarter campaign in January or February, in which the game, this expansion, and other expansions will be available.

If you like games generally, but hate feeling like your at the mercy of the dice in Monopoly/Risk/etc., this is a great game to introduce yourself to the next level of gaming. If you have already played Eurogames, this one will be a great addition to your collection.
 
A board game about winemaking?

So, it's a board game...about wine making?

See you guys in awhile, I'm going to be working on my prototype homebrew board game. It's gonna be a blast! How much hops to use? What will the abv be? Avoiding the hangover. Crazy good times for the whole family.
 
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I'm going to start on one about making meth! It would make a good TV show too. Wow I'm gonna be rich!
 
So, I'm looking to buy some board games or card games for my family (3 of us, my son is 12). So some of the one's I was looking at were:

Sequence

Liar's Dice

Settlers of Catan

We have Monopoly, Clue, Life, Risk, UNO and a few others. Can't get the family to play Risk. Kid doesn't like Clue. Wife doesn't like Life. I'll play pretty much anything. We're cool with playing a game in multiple sessions, but games that we can play a few rounds of are great, too.
 
Gameface said:
So, I'm looking to buy some board games or card games for my family (3 of us, my son is 12). So some of the one's I was looking at were:

Sequence

Liar's Dice

Settlers of Catan

We have Monopoly, Clue, Life, Risk, UNO and a few others. Can't get the family to play Risk. Kid doesn't like Clue. Wife doesn't like Life. I'll play pretty much anything. We're cool with playing a game in multiple sessions, but games that we can play a few rounds of are great, too.
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Are there any games in particular they do like?

My 10-year-old likes games from the Munchkin series.
 
One Brow said:
Are there any games in particular they do like?

My 10-year-old likes games from the Munchkin series.
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They like Monopoly and UNO. Looking to expand a little from there.
 
heyhey said:
I like Tribond. Also I think everyone should own a chess set.
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Yeah, we def have a chess set. My son and I play against each other. When my wife and I were dating we would play against each other a lot but she refuses to play now because when she would win I would insist on playing again, or something... it's her story. I remember just wanting to play.
 
Boggle is good since games are short

Pit is fun, especially for a group of 3 or more

We played a bit of Rummikub (sp?) this past summer, everyone enjoyed it.
 
Gameface said:
They like Monopoly and UNO. Looking to expand a little from there.
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Definitely check out the Munchkin series. They're light, fun, and have dozens of different themes (Tolkien-style fantasy, scifi, pirate, horror (Cthulu), monster movie, superhero, just plain weird (AxeCop), and martial arts as examples).

Another light, fun game is Guillotine.

For something a little longer, there are several games in the Crayon Rails series (Empire Builder is the simplest, and will have the most familiar map) and the Ticket To Ride series. My wife enjoys both of them.
 
We LOVE Munchkin. Very funny, easy to learn, and very involving for all the players.

We also play a lot of Settlers of Catan. Can be a little slow at times depending on who you play with.

We really also like the Dominion card games.

Pandemic is a fun board game where all the players work together instead of against each other. My wife and I play that a lot.

Also, crap, I can't remember the name of this game, maybe onebrow can think of it, but you have a card that is folded into a tent and you venture into a cave to get treasure, and before every play you can run away with your treasure or look for more. A lot of fun. I'll see if I can find the name of it.
 
Apples to Apples, although that is usually a little better with larger groups.

Wits and Wagers, again better with a larger group but still fun.

Scattergories

Cranium

Donkey (card game)

Qwirkle Cubes (good for all ages)

Of course scrabble, boggle, yahtzee, the classics.
 
Bang its the best game around.

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Gameface said:
I've never played 3 player chess.
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To help my kids learn chess and make it a little more fun, since playing me I either had to let them win, give them good moves, etc. and they had a harder time learning from the situation, we started playing round robin chess. In essence, since there were 6 of us we would start 3 games side by side on the kitchen table, with random (name from a hat) partners. Then every 5 moves everyone moved one seat to the right, and the end people suddenly had to play white when they were previously black on the same board. It was a lot of fun, and my kids got pretty good pretty quickly. It had the added layer of trying to set dad up, so one kid who was next to me would play his game badly to try to set me up, only to have to come back around to it eventually. So they would try to collaborate to beat me. It was fun, and worth a try if you have a bigger group. We played that if you were checkmated, that board was removed from the game, the player that was playing on that board and checkmated left the game and it became like a weird version of musical chairs.
 
LogGrad98 said:
To help my kids learn chess and make it a little more fun, since playing me I either had to let them win, give them good moves, etc. and they had a harder time learning from the situation, we started playing round robin chess. In essence, since there were 6 of us we would start 3 games side by side on the kitchen table, with random (name from a hat) partners. Then every 5 moves everyone moved one seat to the right, and the end people suddenly had to play white when they were previously black on the same board. It was a lot of fun, and my kids got pretty good pretty quickly. It had the added layer of trying to set dad up, so one kid who was next to me would play his game badly to try to set me up, only to have to come back around to it eventually. So they would try to collaborate to beat me. It was fun, and worth a try if you have a bigger group. We played that if you were checkmated, that board was removed from the game, the player that was playing on that board and checkmated left the game and it became like a weird version of musical chairs.
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That sounds like a really cool way to do it.

I've taken a different approach. My kid has never come close to beating me. He got grounded from all video games, internet, etc. plus early bed time about a year and a half ago and I told him if he could beat me he could get ungrounded early. He could challenge me pretty much any time I had the time to play and I'd play him. One time I intentionally forced the game to a draw and he was super pumped. He told my wife when I wasn't there and she said that was good enough to get limited privileges back. I was pissed, but went along with it.
 
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