What is your favorite board game?

I like Spivs, it just takes too long. Some games go on for months!

I don't know Spivs or Masterpiece. Gosh! A game that goes on for months???

I like Spivs too, we'll have to play it next time you're here. :)

It's the scoring strategy as much as anything which makes it fun but one can also laugh about some of the words that come up!

Up to this point (30 responses) the stakes are: Monopoly (15), Scrabble (9), Chess (7), Cluedo (4) then Spivs, Life, Risk, Trivial Pursuit and Checkers/Draughts all have 2 each and Masterpiece, Trade, Mahjongg, Dark World, Aggravation, Pictionary, Ludo, Carrom, Chinese Checkers, Uno and Mancala have 1 each!

I like a game of crib, too. I play it on the computer because I don't want to go down the pub and lose money! Scrabble is one of my favorites and I'm a secret Literati junkie (when I'm not on MyLot!). TP we always play at one person's house at Christmas.

I like a game of crib, too. I play it on the computer because I don't want to go down the pub and lose money! Scrabble is one of my favorites and I'm a secret Literati junkie (when I'm not on MyLot!). TP we always play at one person's house at Christmas.

(Double posting again!! ... blessed blank screen!)

The more the merrier with TP, I think. Playing in teams is excellent fun!

Nice review, AJ (and a neat way of getting it read!). I hope you do well with epinions.

As promised, here's my review of Monopoly... http://www.epinions.com/content_165045440132

You're the first to mention Chess! My mother used to like to play Ludo ... haven't played that for years!

I like trading games or scrabble!

I love Literati, too. I have met so many nice people playing it! Sometimes we have completely forgotten the game in chatting!

Chess is a very good game for the mind. It helps teach planning ahead in life as well as the game.

They are very addictive and fun! The more people you have playing both of them, the better they are! Have you ever tried playing them TOGETHER!

I don't know that one. I shall have to look it up. Just the title sounds like it's fun, though!

It's pretty, how shall I say...aggravating!! LoL! But it is fun to play!

Chutes and Ladders? That's a new name for me! Here it's always known as Snakes and Ladders. Is yours called Chutes and Ladders because many people fear snakes, I wonder?

Monopoly gets better the more you have playing!

I have never played Life, I think, but I have heard a lot about it.

I have never heard of Carrom. Could you describe it, please?

I think the more people you play with, the better game it is. It seems that many people play it only once or twice a year! It's an excellent family game, for sure.

The only answer is a Scrabble dictionary!

The first mention of mancala! It's a really superb game that ought to be more popular. I learnt the Malawi version called Bao, once, but I have forgotten some of the rules.

Long winter nights in Iceland would seem to be the ideal situation for board games! Mahjongg as a four-player game is QUITE different from the computer version! If you think of the difference between Whist or Poker or card games like that and the various solitaire or patience games which use the same deck of cards but are quite different games, there is the same difference!

Chess is definitely high in the popularity stakes here.

I used to play cluedo every Christmas at a cousin's house. Many memories!