Board games have been around for hundreds of years, going back to games like Chess and Go, though now when you talk of 'board games' the general person will immediately thing of something like Risk, Monopoly or even Snakes and Ladders. But there are many hidden gems out there which are slowly starting to become more popular. Games such as Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride.
Websites such as Rock Paper Shotgun have started to cover these in their weekly cardboard children column, Wil Whetaon has a weekly youtube show called Tabletop where he explains and plays through a game with various celebrity friends.
In short, these 'non traditional' board games are slowly becoming more popular. For those of you in London, I'm part of a group called 'London on Board', there are 4-5 meetings a week either on weekday evenings after work, or through the day on weekends. 50-80 gamers descend on a pub, take most of it over, and spend hours playing games. Current favorites include the Game of Thrones board game, Dominion, Power Grid and Coup. And membership is open and free to attend, we are always getting new players and are happy to explain the rules to anyone who hasn't played a game before (I've been going for a few months and I'm still learning different games!)
And with that plug over, what board games do you lot play? And if you don't play any, why not? They are great fun!
Websites such as Rock Paper Shotgun have started to cover these in their weekly cardboard children column, Wil Whetaon has a weekly youtube show called Tabletop where he explains and plays through a game with various celebrity friends.
In short, these 'non traditional' board games are slowly becoming more popular. For those of you in London, I'm part of a group called 'London on Board', there are 4-5 meetings a week either on weekday evenings after work, or through the day on weekends. 50-80 gamers descend on a pub, take most of it over, and spend hours playing games. Current favorites include the Game of Thrones board game, Dominion, Power Grid and Coup. And membership is open and free to attend, we are always getting new players and are happy to explain the rules to anyone who hasn't played a game before (I've been going for a few months and I'm still learning different games!)
And with that plug over, what board games do you lot play? And if you don't play any, why not? They are great fun!
. It's just a piece of card and a bunch of cards, how can they charge that much?!!
Although I prefer playing it in the flesh, it's not as fun without being able to repeatedly accuse people of being a cylon and not seeing their face