Kill Doctor Lucky by Cheap Ass Games, Piazo is also selling an expensive glossy boxed version. Hex Hex by Smirk and Dagger, a real fast game that gets people involved. Guillotine by WotC, takes about 30 minutes and I can get my non-gaming sister to play. Rogue Judges runs what they think are fun (not what companies tell them to run) and teach the rules for everything they run.Īs for suggestions for games (in no particular order): It costs tickets (generics are welcome) but check out Rogue Judges in the Board Game room for board and non-collectable card games. We play in groups of 2 to 6+ players regularly, so games that work well with small groups and with larger ones (with expansion sets if required) would be welcome suggestions! FWIW, I consider the game play more important than the 30-90 minute time frames, since I can convince Heather to a longer session if it's a great game. Heather has found that she prefers shorter games to longer one: she's not generally willing to sit down and play Settlers for 2-3 hours (for a 6 player game), so games in the 30-90 minutes range would be ideal, though she's probably willing to check out a frood cool game for a longer time. Heather and I and our extended family play a lot of cards (spades, oh heck, bridge, Sleuth, Authors, Milles Bourne, etc.), but our other mainstay is boardgames: Settlers (generally Cities & Knights these days, haven't checked out any of the newer releases since those) and Carcassone (mostly Hunters & Gatherers these days, which my wife and I play at lunch in about 30 minutes, generally) are among our favorites, but we also enjoy board/war games ranging from Awful Green Things From Outer Space to Dark Tower to Abalone to Titan to Arkham Horror (Chaosium version, haven't played the new one) to Kings N Things to Mystery of the Abbey. I'm going to be attending GenCon this year, and my wife has assigned me the onerous task of demoing board games until I find at least one fun game to bring home.

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