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Why did you make them all seperate polls? No time to waste waiting for LJ to registar all my answers, so here you go.

I have played Settlers, enjoyed it and will play it amongst other games that I like.

I *love* playing board games, the more competative, the better.

Favorite board games include

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Showbiz Shuffle - by Blood and Cardstock. The game is published by a friend of mine, who has 2 other games, also very good. The game has gotten *excellent* gaming reviews and was good enough to be distributed by Wizards of the Coasts in their gaming stores. It would be great fun with your girls. The cards are characatures of movie stars and directors and the players build movies by putting together a director, two stars, and two supporting actors. There's extra kicker cards to spice up the game.

*All the Train & Crayon Games from Mayfaire - Eurorails and such
*Cosmic Encounter -- currently also owned by Mayfair
*Advanced Civilization which was made by (the now defunct?) Avalon Hill (different than the Sid Meyers game of similar name)
*Age of Renaissance also by Avalon Hill
*Carcassonne
*Nuclear War - by Flying Buffalo

My friend from Blood&Cardstock is also distributing some of the games already mentioned,
Too Many Cooks
Lost Cities
Coloretto -- which is really cool game that looks childish on the surface, you're trying to collect as many cards of the same colors, but in stratedgy it's more like Go -- The nice part, you can play it with children and adults
There's one we played recently... with people trying to escape a house with a monster. I'll probably find out this weekend ;-)

Puerto Rico is incredibly popular among the gamers I know, but I haven't played it myself yet.