Author Topic: Nominations - Top 10 non-Carcassonne games (Read 21608 times)

ny1050220 · « **Reply #30 on:** April 18, 2017, 09:47:41 AM »

Ticket to Ride: Switzerland?

Decar · « **Reply #31 on:** April 18, 2017, 09:57:19 AM »

Might have to start bundling Ticket to Ride and it's expansions. I'm not enough of an expert of TTR to separate: expansions/variants/different games though.

JoeSesquipedalian · « **Reply #32 on:** April 18, 2017, 03:47:59 PM »

I nominate some old-time favorites: Spades, Cribbage, Briscas

I also nominate some of my recently discovered favorites: Port Royal, Guildhall, Famiglia

Hmmmm, I just realized they are all card games. Good for saving space I guess

Decar · « **Reply #33 on:** April 19, 2017, 02:18:47 AM »

I do love me some cribbage

Fogarrach · « **Reply #34 on:** April 19, 2017, 06:19:58 AM »

Maillot Arc-en-ciel : Fantastic cycling board game
Sorry: Old-time classic, I'm surprised to see that it's not on the list
Campaign: My first love
Shogi: Chess 2.0
Trafalgar: An incredible game that has a significant space in my childhood memory, not least because I only had access to a schoolchum's copy
and....
subbuteo: only now are kids rediscovering what we had all those years ago - a 3-dimensional strategic skills based game

ny1050220 · « **Reply #35 on:** April 19, 2017, 08:40:11 AM »

In my opinion, the difference among various maps of Ticket to Ride (TTR) is comparable to that among Carcassonne expansions, so it doesn't hurt to bundle the TTR games with maps, just not The Card Game. Think about Puerto Rico (the board game) and San Juan (the card game).

danisthirty · « **Reply #36 on:** April 19, 2017, 09:27:23 AM »

Don't look now, but everyone else forgot to add Escape: Curse of the Temple (an awesome real-time dice roller)...

thodekey · « **Reply #37 on:** April 19, 2017, 09:49:27 AM »

I added Spyfall to my list as well...great party game!

JoeSesquipedalian · « **Reply #38 on:** April 19, 2017, 10:17:13 AM »

Quote from: danisthirty on April 19, 2017, 09:27:23 AM

(an awesome real-time dice roller)...

What makes a dice roller a "real-time" dice roller? Just curious.

Whaleyland · « **Reply #39 on:** April 19, 2017, 03:17:45 PM »

Quote from: ny1050220 on April 19, 2017, 08:40:11 AM

In my opinion, the difference among various maps of Ticket to Ride (TTR) is comparable to that among Carcassonne expansions, so it doesn't hurt to bundle the TTR games with maps, just not The Card Game. Think about Puerto Rico (the board game) and San Juan (the card game).

Except I severely dislike Puerto Rico but like San Juan quite a bit. Despite similar mechanics, they are completely different games in my mind. Ticket to Ride games are certainly more similar to each other, but I never play (and don't own) the Ticket to Ride base game. I consider Europe and Nordic Countries to be the core game and if I saw just Ticket to Ride on a list, I would not vote for it, but I would almost certainly vote for Europe or Nordic Countries. So there is a difference.