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MerricB

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At the time I write this, these are the top 10 games on BoardGameGeek:

#1: Agricola
#2: Puerto Rico
#3: Power Grid
#4: Twilight Struggle
#5: Tigris and Euphrates
#6: El Grande
#7: Caylus
#8: Race for the Galaxy
#9: The Princes of Florence
#10: Through the Ages: A Story of Civilisation

How many of them have you played? I've played the top 9; #10 is unfortunately (a) extremely expensive and (b) out of print, although I'll probably get it once it comes back into print.

Twilight Struggle is my favourite boardgame at the moment, with Power Grid my favourite Euro (though Agricola is gaining). There are several there I don't get to play enough, and I'm enjoying Race for the Galaxy a lot.

El Grande I rarely play; it wants 5 players, and when we have the five required I tend not to have it with me!

Cheers!
 

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I've only played Puerto Rico and Caylus on that list. PR is great fun, and I'd love to play it again sometime. I enjoy how integral they made scarcity to a game of colonization. Caylus is freaking complicated. Maybe the game was explained poorly to me, but it made 3.5 seem simplistic in comparison.
 

#2: Played several times. Its a favorite among my boardgaming group. Not a huge fan of it.
#3: Played several times on BSW and with gaming groups. LOVE IT. One of my favorite games to play
#6: Have played it only once, and made a bad mistake that may have lost me the game. Outside of that have no real opinion.
#7: Have played several times on BSW...still don't seem to have to hang of...but its still pretty fun
#8: Actually helped playtest. Want to play more and possibly buy it at some point.
#9: Played once, and wasn't real happy with it.

Haven't played the others.
 

At the time I write this, these are the top 10 games on BoardGameGeek:

#1: Agricola
#2: Puerto Rico
#3: Power Grid
#4: Twilight Struggle
#5: Tigris and Euphrates
#6: El Grande
#7: Caylus
#8: Race for the Galaxy
#9: The Princes of Florence
#10: Through the Ages: A Story of Civilisation

How many of them have you played? I've played the top 9; #10 is unfortunately (a) extremely expensive and (b) out of print, although I'll probably get it once it comes back into print.

Twilight Struggle is my favourite boardgame at the moment, with Power Grid my favourite Euro (though Agricola is gaining). There are several there I don't get to play enough, and I'm enjoying Race for the Galaxy a lot.

El Grande I rarely play; it wants 5 players, and when we have the five required I tend not to have it with me!

Cheers!
I own them all and have played them all. Caylus is still my favorite followed by power grid (out of that list). Agricola is quite awesome, and its ranked high because it has few flaws game wise outside of a somewhat lengthy setup time.

Out of the two on the list, i hate races of the galaxy (multi-solitaire at its best) and prince of florence (it really didn't seem that much fun after 3 plays).
 

I've played Agricola, PR, Race, Through the Ages and Princes of Florence. I really enjoyed Agricola, Race and Through the Ages. Both PR and Princes I found only okay. I'm hoping to get a game of Twilight Struggle in sometime this week, I keep hearing good things about it. Caylus is on the buy list as well.
 

Only played Race for the Galaxy. And I love it. Whenever my gaming buddies and I get together for anything we usually play at least a game or two. Sometimes 10.

I've always wanted to play Twilight Struggle, but it is pretty expensive and not many people I know feel like playing a long war game. At least not people that I'd want to play a long war game with anyway.

For the rest, I'm really not big on Euros in general.
 

I've played Puerto Rico and Tigris & Euphrates. T&E's my favorite game, but I'm not a huge fan of Puerto (largely in part, I think, because I don't like the idea of counting out all those colonists at the beginning of the game. lol!)
 


Despite playing many a board game, I don't count myself as a boardgame geek, so I can't remember names of every game I've played, but I think this is my list

#1: Agricola Check, played a few times and will probably play again because our board game enthusiasts like it.

#2: Puerto Rico Check, played it a few times. This however is a game I feel needs to be played with people on even footing, that is, there are certain buys that are better than others and experience counts.

#3: Power Grid Played once and watched it once, (I really should have taken a nap or gotten something to eat, didn't realize the length).

#4: Twilight Struggle Don't think I've played.

#5: Tigris and Euphrates I've probably played because I know this is a classic, but can't remember what it looks like.

#6: El Grande Never played. Maybe?

#7: Caylus Certainly seen played, but not sure I've actually played

#8: Race for the Galaxy Played this and like Puerto Rico (both versions) there are moves that are better, except since you get random cards, I'm not sure what they are. You need to play and learn the combos.

#9: The Princes of Florence This sounds familiar. Do you build stacks of towers?

#10: Through the Ages: A Story of Civilisation This doesn't ring a bell.
 


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