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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."
If you haven't tried Settlers of Catan, you should.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start
To mold a new reality... closer to the heart
since the article didn't offer one :
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Its from Mayfair games :
http://www.mayfairgames.com/
and they use friggin frames so this is the best link i can give. using the main page you can find it in the a-z listing.
http://www.mayfairgames.com/shop/product/phalanx/
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Ticket to Ride - Outstanding quality and very fun to play.
Acquire - Great fun
Nuclear War - A simple and wonderfully addictive card game.
One of the worst, actually. Almost universally hated among gamers.
pronoblem
In terms of board games, Wizards of the Coast only a small handful of games.
Of the 10 that were listed by the Morning News article, only one is made by Wizard's board game division, Avalon Hill.
Wizards does do quite a few card games though.
The troll with karma.
Puerto Rico. The only randomness in that game is the plantation availability and that is a relatively minor factor (especially when compared to e.g. the ressource rolls in a Settlers game).
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I've had fun with Lord or the Rings.
There's an individual component as well, but we've always ignored that aspect.
-Dave
1. Chez Geek/Goth
2. Apples to Apples
3. Killer bunnies
4. Things
5. Munchkin (any)
6. Settlers
7. Illuminati
8. Hacker Deluxe Edition
9. Ninja Burger
10. Maharaja
I own more but this is what gets played the most!
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