Post # 1
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Sugar bee
- Wedding: April 2017 - Valleybrook Country Club
For a little fun, share some of your favorite board games!
Fiance and I went to lunch with another couple this weekend. We went back to their house afterwards to play a board game. We ended up playing Takenoko which I have never heard of! It was a little bit slow to start as we had to understand the game, but it was a lot of fun! I really liked the game. So it got me to thinking, what other fun games are out there that we should try?
Info on the game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70919/takenoko
Post # 2
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Helper bee
I love Ticket To Ride Europe. That’s my go to game on board game/wine night. Also a huge fan of Pandemic and Smash Up.
If you’re looking for something for a bigger group of people, Coup is fantastic. Not a board game (cards game, rather), but oh man is it intense. And everyone really gets into it!
Post # 3
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Bumble bee
Ohhhh we love board games. We have 2 sets of friends that are big into gaming, so we get to try new/unique ones all the time. My favorites are Mysterium and Viticulture! We also bought a couple for friends as a birthday gift that were lots of fun to play with – Tokaido and Betrayal at House on Haunted Hill.
Oh, and at last game night we played Camel Up – that was lots of fun. Saboteur is great for a larger group too…though that’s a hybrid card game (where you essentially build a board).
Post # 4
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Sugar Beekeeper
I love Codenames, but it’s best to have at least 6 people although it’s doable with as little as 4 for the regular game. Maybe even 3 with adjusted rules?
Post # 5
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Buzzing bee
AB Bride : Code Names is such a great game! It’s still in regular play in our weekly game night after many many months.
I also love Dominion (+ expansions), Power Grid, Carcassone, Puerto Rico, Betrayal at House on the Hill, and of course Settlers of Catan.
Post # 6
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Busy bee
Ticket to Ride!! Haven’t tried Europe, but loved playing it!
Sequence (not a “board” but a mat)
Cards Against Humanity is always fun
a classic and my absolute fav is Pictionary 🙂
Post # 7
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Blushing bee
Definitely Betrayal at the House on the Hill. It’s one of my favorites, and always a hit with non board gamers as well (we’re pretty hardcore and play a lot of intense strategy games with dedicated board game groups, but occasionally have to see our non-nerdy board gaming friends… So naturally we bring board games, lol!).
Other possibilities: Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, Tokaido, Dominion. These have also played really well with our non-gamer friends and family. Also, seconding the mentions of Coup and Codenames.
PS, Takenoko has an expansion that adds more pandas. Just thought I’d throw that out there. 😉
Post # 8
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Bee Keeper
Well, I feel dumb, I haven’t heard of any of these games!
Not exactly board games, but we usually like to play Cards Against Humanity (or Apples to Apples for the more PG version, depending on the crowd). We also like “Things” if we have a larger group of people that know each other pretty well (it involves picking out who gave what answer, so it’d be hard with strangers).
Post # 9
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Busy bee
SithLady : right there with ya…i haven’t hear dof any of these either.
i still play Clue and Trouble every now and again
Post # 10
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Worker bee
Telestrations! It’s like pictionary meets broken telephone, absolutely hilarious!
Post # 11
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Busy bee
Monopoly and Settlers of Catan are big favourites with us. Though my personal favourites are Scrabble or the Discworld Board Game.
I love Dominion, its a really fun game that I was introduced to by some intense board game fans, friends of DH that we meet up with every couple of months.
Post # 12
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Buzzing Beekeeper
MrsSapphire : my favorite is Seven Wonders. I also really like Last Will, Ascension, Dominion, Mysterium, Code Names, Splendor, Ticket to Ride, Power Grid, this weird wizard card game I can’t remember the name of right now, and Cash n’ Guns.
Post # 13
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Sugar bee
- Wedding: April 2017 - Valleybrook Country Club
Wow so many suggestions that I’ve never heard of before! Thanks guys! 
Post # 14
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Buzzing bee
LilliV : How simlar is Ascension to Dominion? I own and love Dominion; do you think it’s worth purchasing Ascension to try as well? Thanks!
Post # 15
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Bee Keeper
Scattagories, Risk, Scrabble, Clue, Boggle, Jenga, an old vintage version of Snakes and Ladders that belonged to my Nana, Backgammon
There is a local restaurant/ pub called The Geekery that has board games you can play at your table 🙂