Boardgames - Settlers of Catan poll

[estepheia]

Phew, have I mentioned how I hate December? Today hubby and I spent 5 and a half hours playing a board-game that I bought for Tina. Minimum age is 12, but both children understood the game well enough to play. However, they dwadled and sat restlessly, climbed on my lap, squealed, fondled the cards, gave unwanted advice to their parents (and not even stupid advice) and were genereally noisy, twitchy, and nerve-wrecking. In terms of karma, this one gaming session should at least rate as high as a one-week holiday in Turkey or a 4-figure win in the lottery. *is exhausted*
Tina loves her game (Candamir - a game out of the Settlers of Catan family) but I'd rather play In 80 Tagen um die Welt (Around the World in 80 days - our other brand-new game) three times in a row, than play Candamir again. Next time we'll lower the victory coniditions, because Candamir really drags on and on and on.
I bought hubby a cardgame called San Juan for Christmas, an excellent German game for 2-4 players that is fast and exciting. It's also relatively affordable (13-15 EUR), that game is really excellent. One can only hope that it gets translated into English. If you're in a German-speaking country, I can only recommend this game. Easy to learn, and the 2-player mode is very balanced and fast moving.
I used to read a newsgroup on boardgames, where the US posters raved happily about 'German' board-games - called like that even if the author is Swiss or even Italian. We have the world's largest selection of board- and card games for familes, adults and kids. I know that Settlers of Catan is available in the US. But how far has it spread? I'm curious. I'd love it if you answered my poll.

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Comments

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

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.

[justhuman.livejournal.com]

*ugh* sorry about the broken link up there. Oh, we also like Apples to Apples which is a fun party game that can be played with gamers and non-gamers alike.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Why did you make them all seperate polls?
Because I thought I had to when using different features like word entry, check boxes and radio buttons. *blushes*

Puerto Rico is fabulous. But I like its little brother San Juan better.
Will try to write a longer reply tomorrow.
Thanks for answering. :-)