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2006 Board Games Gift Guide

SlantyBard writes "As per previous years, the Morning News has published their annual guide to Good Gift Games. You can also always check out BoardGameGeek's gift guide to boardgames or Funagain's all time top bestseller list for great gifts for your family and friends." From the Morning news post: "Occasionally I'll play a new game so elegant in design that I'll come away amazed that it hadn't been thought of before. Hey! That's My Fish! is the most recent example. Sixty small hexagons (each showing one, two, or three fish) are assembled into an ice floe. Players then place their penguins onto the board, and play begins. On a turn, a player moves one of his penguins and then claims the hex the penguin just vacated, scoring points for the fish shown thereon. The ice floe slowly melts as more and more hexes are taken. Eventually there will be no more legal moves, and the person with the most fish wins. It's extremely simple and remarkably strategic."

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  1. Step 1: Get the Wizards of the Coast catalog... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Step 1: Get the Wizards of the Coast catalog
    Step 2: Open it to a random page and put your finger down
    Step 3: Order that

  2. Re:monopoly by silentounce · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because there is no chance involved in that one at all.

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    There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think. -Victor Hugo
  3. Re:Buy Board Games That Encourage Cooperation by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, cooperation is the devil. Don't you listen to the capitalists and libertarians? Only pinko commie socialists cooperate. Everyone else tries their damndest to kill or fuck over everything else on the planet. That's the American way.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  4. Re:Buy Board Games That Encourage Cooperation by xero314 · · Score: 3, Funny
    they refer to "Our Town" as "Communist Monopoly"
    As opposed to "Monopoly" where everyone starts with the same resources, earns the same income and can be jailed for no fault of their own.