Favorite Card/Board Games

Hey you finance nerds, was wondering what your favorite card/board games are? I'm mostly interested in strategy games like Ticket to Ride and Settlers of Catan, but really just like any game that has some level of thought to it.

What are some games you've played that you would recommend?

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Came here to say Stratego as well. I absolutely love this game. It’s hard to regularly play unfortunately because most good games take ~2 hours 

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Azul - can be played like a child game or a cutthroat competition

Root - probably the coolest game I’ve played though also complicated, everyone plays essentially a seperate race/character that’s completely different

Ascension - a deck building game with a fantasy twist

Secret hitler - better warewolf

 
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Am I the only dork here who still plays Yu-Gi-Oh? Since they released Master Duel it's just too fun & easy. Other most frequently played/favorite board games are Chess, Catan, and Talisman.

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Cards Against Humanity, duh. But Catan is good too. Or if you really want to test friendships, Risk. Poker is fun when you smack someone with a two-seven offsuit and get to the point where your buddies have to buy in through you since you built an entire lego style castle out of all the chips you've collected.

Oh, and on the finance scale, Monopoly is a never ending classic. And [PrivateTechquity 🚀GME+BBBY🚀], I raise you MTG or the old school Star Wars card game.

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Never really got into MTG, when Yu-Gi-Oh came out it was a lot more approachable. Just simpler and cheaper, plus the explosive success of the Manga and TV show made it very easy for a little kid to dive in. I've watched some videos explaining it and it seems fun, but the differences are minimal enough, pricing still notably different, and the size of the player base just makes Yu-Gi-Oh the better choice to me still. If I had a friend with cards and beers and they wanted to teach me to play I'd be open to learning.

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"Risk is a game of luck disguised as a game of strategy, which means you can’t help but feel like an idiot every time you lose to your dumb friends, even though all they managed to do was roll higher numbers than you.

The only real tactical element comes from the negotiating, which always ends in tragedy. Alliances disappear faster than heterosexuality at a Lady Gaga concert; the second someone can exchange a set of Risk cards for some armies they’re going to turn around and crush you like the bug you are.

If you manage to survive the assault you’ll trade in some cards of your own and return the favor, and the two of you will go back and forth in a bitterly personal conflict until the guy who spent the entire game holed up in Australia sweeps the board in a single turn. You and your friend will blame each other for the fact that you both lost, and your fractured relationship will teach you lessons that apply to both Risk and life: never let a conflict get personal, and never trust anyone from Australia."

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