Board Games!

[Faraday]

Forbidden Island would probably work pretty well, actually. It scales in difficulty - and is simplistic enough he would be able to get it, I think? Plus it's co-operative so even if he doesn't 100% get it straight away he will quickly.

Survive: Escape from Atlantis and Takenoko are both fairly simple and fun games - but I'm not sure if they'd be beyond a 7 year old. There's probably playthroughs on youtube if you wanted to check them out.

Zooleretto is also faaairly simple and has people collecting animals and such.

[Faraday]

Ya, also what quadz said would probably be okay - love letter is super simplistic.

[GreyICE]

Got in a play of

Dungeon Lords

last night.

Best. Game. Ever. I ended the game with 3 whole victory points, half my dungeon in ruins, and laughing hysterically.

Not nearly as complex as people say, just a little fiddly. Everything is super-easy to understand.

[Thesp]

Sorry if this has been talked about previously in thread

I want to get some cool board games embedded in my nephew while he's young and he has Christmas and birthday coming up. Turning 7. I was thinking about Junior Catan, but wasn't sure if anyone could recommend other games that might be fun for kid/adult play. I think my brother would appreciate it if the games weren't too terrible. Note that he is fairly advanced logically and seems to love analyzing rule systems, so maybe things a year or two ahead of him would be ok

TIA

King of Tokyo

comes to mind - visually appealing, with dice-rolling and silly fun. If he can handle brief player elimination, this is likely my first recommendation.

Ghost Blitz

is a great "twitchy" game if he appreciates fast-reaction games. (So is

Jungle Speed

, for that matter.)

On the route-building side,

Ticket to Ride

is also worth considering. I've had success with as young as our 8 year-old niece with this game.

On the Tetris-y side,

FITS

may be worth a look.

[Sudo_Nym]

You might be able to get away with regular Catan. Obi seems to be able to handle it, and he's around that age.

[chamber]

My nephew (5) will lose interest in a game if he starts losing. I don't know how to deal with that so I've mostly stopped trying in the hopes he grows out of it.

[Juls]

Chamber, you're a programmer right? I hear

robot turtles

is fun for that age. My daughter's too old for it I think so I haven't tried it first hand but a coworker has it.

Speaking of my daughter, we played

Seasons

last night and while I was setting it up my daughter asked to play. I thought it would be too difficult for her (she is only 8 and, despite my best efforts, isn't that interested in board games). She not only played, she did a pretty good job! She finished second (I won, my husband was last). So that was pretty cool and gives me hope that I can mold her!

[Chevre]

Thurn and Taxis

opinions anyone?

BTW I just unboxed

Hanabi

and

Augustus

. I love how succinct and concise Hanabi is even in it's box. Also the components for Augustus are super good and I'm excited to see how it goes.

[shaft.ed]

My nephew (5) will lose interest in a game if he starts losing. I don't know how to deal with that so I've mostly stopped trying in the hopes he grows out of it.

hah, my wife does that so it might not be grow outable


thanks for the recommendations guys, i will look into them all

[ChannelDelibird]

I just played the Hunters variant from the new expanded edition of

The Resistance

and I liked it a lot! As someone who has played a crap-ton of

Avalon

, it was a real breath of fresh air without removing all of the information that flies around in Avalon. I had been sceptical of whether or not the new Resistance would be worth investment for someone who already owns Avalon but the Hunters stuff was an enjoyable alternative and there's still more things that I haven't tried. At the very least, it looks like being the definitive set for someone who doesn't already own Resistance in some form.

[Juls]

I'd be up for playing something in a few hours if anyone is game?

[xRECKONERx]

playing what?

[Juls]

Don't care, I'm easy.

[Juls]

I can attempt to teach you twilight struggle on vassal but I wasn't crazy about the module last time I tried.

[xRECKONERx]

I think Gamma is coming over actually to play board games IRL? Maybe. I'll pop in if not

[xRECKONERx]

Played Kemet again tonight with the husband/roommate/Gamma. What a wonderful game.

[xRECKONERx]

Anybody around and want to play something on Vassal?

[Sudo_Nym]

Sure, like what?

[Chevre]

I'll play something, but like I've said before I'll likely be new to whatever we choose.

[ChannelDelibird]

Curse you Americans and your timezones.

Alchemists

: Takes a long time to figure out the first time that you play it but still enjoyed it quite a lot (even in losing) and imagine that it could get actually quite breezy when you've all played it once through. Worth a look (a slapdash description of it would be a kind of worker-placement version of Cluedo).

[xRECKONERx]

I've been looking for a good 'Whodunnit?' type game. I guess similar to Battlestar Galactica, but with more Cluedo elements of gathering evidence and putting together the puzzle, but I'm not sure anything like that exists.

[ChannelDelibird]

I've been looking for a good 'Whodunnit?' type game. I guess similar to Battlestar Galactica, but with more Cluedo elements of gathering evidence and putting together the puzzle, but I'm not sure anything like that exists.

MYSTERY EXPRESS

MYSTERY EXPRESS

MYSTERY EXPRESS

[Sudo_Nym]

We could play Shadows over Camelot.

[Faraday]

I've been looking for a good 'Whodunnit?' type game. I guess similar to Battlestar Galactica, but with more Cluedo elements of gathering evidence and putting together the puzzle, but I'm not sure anything like that exists.

I'm not really sure what you mean, exactly but Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective? It's an actual like investigation. Shut up and sit down did a review.

[Faraday]

There's also like Sleuth, but that doesn't seem very BSG ish?