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[Balderdash] Online Board Game Funtimes
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Old Sep 16, 2014, 10:05 PM 4 #1 of 51
Online Board Game Funtimes

One of the best things about GFF Meet is all the board gaming that happens. There are a lot of board game enthusiasts here, and I've recently found a couple of free websites that let you play dozens of licensed board games online, either in real-time or asynchronously.

If there's enough interest, we could pick a time every week to get on Skype and get our cardboard on, or if it's easier, we could just play in turns when it's convenient. I'm not going to list every game available, but here are some highlights:

Board Game Arena - Flashier site with a more contemporary list of 60 games
  • Seasons
  • Race for the Galaxy
  • Takenoko (the one with the panda that we played at Meet this year)
  • Tzolk'in
  • Tokaido
  • Hive
  • Puerto Rico

Yucata - Not as slick, with more focus on asynchronous play, but a list of 100 more Euro-ish titles
  • A Few Acres of Snow
  • The Castles of Burgundy
  • Russian Railroads
  • Thunderstone
  • Firenze

There are a lot of games I'm unfamiliar with, but I'm up for learning new games if other folks are. Who's interested?

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Old Sep 18, 2014, 11:56 AM #2 of 51
Not everything on there is complicated strategery (though I love those). Like I said, I'm not familiar with many of the games, but Takenoko and Tokaido at least are very simple.

Takenoko involves building a bamboo garden, then moving gardener and panda tokens around to grow/eat the bamboo. You have cards in your hand with objectives like "eat 3 pink bamboo" or "grow 4 green bamboo on a tile" or "Lay tiles in the garden that match this pattern". That's a bit of an oversimplification, but folks at the Meet picked up on it quick.

Tokaido is supposed to re-enact a trip across Japan. The board is a long straight line, and whoever is last in line moves. Each spot on the line does something (buy souvenirs, get gold, visit hot springs, collect pieces to 1 of 3 panoramas, get some sort of lucky charm, donate to the temple). In the base game, that's it. You move along the line, figuring out what tactic you want to use to get points, and maybe land on a space to block someone else from getting it (you can't move backwards either). It's a dead simple game. The expansion adds in choices at each stop (you can choose from 1 of 2 things to do instead of only one), but for beginners I'd start with the base game.

Since we're all in different time zones, it's probably easiest to play asynchronously. On Boardgame Arena, the table creator can set it so there's no time limit, and also restrict it to friends only and/or save spots for users. I'm nuttyturnip (of course), so I could set up some tables if we're interested.

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Old Sep 18, 2014, 07:43 PM #3 of 51
I've added Shin, Capo and Menno to my friends list, and will add anyone else who posts here. I opened up a Takenoko and Tokaido table, restricted to friends only. Not sure if my friends list can see it, or if I have to invite people. Just let me know if I need to invite you, and if folks want to create other games, that's cool too.

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Old Sep 18, 2014, 09:29 PM #4 of 51
Apparently if you uncheck all the skill level boxes, it becomes invite only. It's fixed now.

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Old Sep 19, 2014, 08:31 AM #5 of 51
I went ahead and pressed start on the Tokaido game, since 3 players is fine. Hawkeye and I played live games of Takenoko and Tokaido last night, and both times we lost to randoms at the last minute. Sigh.

I was speaking idiomatically.
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Old Sep 26, 2014, 04:39 PM 1 #6 of 51
I thought I was doing pretty good in Takenoko, until I saw that Hawkeye and Capo are doing much better in the goals dept.

I went ahead and created a Stone Age table, open to the GFF group.

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Old Sep 29, 2014, 01:54 PM #7 of 51
Capo is proving to be a formidable opponent. I joined Tokaido, but I'll let someone else have a crack at Takenoko unless you need players.

I also created a table for Caylus, a game Mo0 and I had a chance to play this weekend. It's definitely complicated, but there's a high potential for trolling. In short, it's a worker placement game where you're putting buildings along a road from the castle, while also contributing materials to said castle. Each building lets you gather materials or build new buildings, but the kicker is, except for the basic start buildings, each building belongs to the player that built it. This means if I own the building that lets you build houses, you have to pay me a point to use it. There's also a white marker on the road called the Provost; any buildings past the Provost on the road cannot be activated. He steadily moves forward, but players can pay to move him forward or backwards 3 spaces, meaning you could put a worker on a building (and pay points to another player to do so), only to have another player pay to move the Provost back and cause you to get nothing. There's a lot more to the game than that, and folks should read the rules, but if you like Stone Age, you'll like Caylus.

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Old Sep 29, 2014, 05:38 PM #8 of 51
It's a game where you can literally have Bath House Pang House.

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Old Oct 4, 2014, 09:35 AM 2 #9 of 51
Pang is attempting to make his turns last as long as an actual trip across Japan.

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Old Oct 10, 2014, 05:44 PM #10 of 51
I'm getting creamed in 3 player Caylus because I didn't take the Stables into account. In 2 player, turn order rotates each round, but with more than 2 you have to waste a worker to change. Definitely a lot more competition to build stuff.

Since we're playing turn-based, smaller games seem to work better. I've created tables for Kahuna and Targi (both 2 player, pretty easy to learn) and Yahtzee, because why not.

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Old Oct 11, 2014, 06:01 PM #11 of 51
You'll need to rejoin the Yahtzee game. I think the site deleted it because I waited too long to start it.

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Old Oct 15, 2014, 01:37 PM #12 of 51
I just notice the extra category of "Rigole" at the bottom of Yahtzee. What is that and how do you score it?

Also, since this seems to be the only unstickied thread in this forum, I'm going to fix that.

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Old Oct 15, 2014, 03:00 PM #13 of 51
Yeah, I can't hover over on an iPad. Sounds like they're just making up categories.

I was speaking idiomatically.
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