Monopoly is very fun when all property is bought up and you begin negotiations. It brings out the Capitalist Pig in everyone. I am nearly unbeatable, and I challenge anyone on this board to a game.
I can't believe I left word games off my list. Scrabble and Boggle were very popular in my house, and in my family very, very competitive.
Two games come to mind, Risk and Life. Risk could get rather intense at times, i'm sure a few friendships have been ruined because of that game. The pieces do fly when an angry fist hits the board. As for Life, I just like the spinner-buuuuuuuzzzzz
I don't know how many people seen the VH1 I love toys but it was pretty hilarious. Monopoly is in the top. I cant play monopoly, because we don't get along after a while and houses and hotels start flying across the room. http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/top_100_toys/ Here's a few clips of the show http://www.vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?id=1525180&vid=76833 Operation Checkers Battleship Clue
Have you ever played Go? For anyone who's a fan of chess, you simply have to try Go. I first heard about the game in A Child's Garden of Grass, in 1969. There was a mention of it that said, if memory serves, that "If this book does nothing else for you but introduce you to the game of Go, it was worth the purchase." That was so true. I searched and found the game, introduced it to my friends, and we had countless Go tournaments back in the day. Yet I rarely meet anyone who has played. It is huge in Japan and, I think, China. Perhaps our Chinese friends here could say if it's played in The Motherland.
Life was fun. Monopoly was on occasion. Anyone ever played Stratego? That was probably my favorite game.
"Go" is known as "Wei Qi" in China. It is a chess game invented hundreds of years ago (in the Han Dynasty I believe). Like many other Chinese cultural products, the game "Wei Qi" was then well developed and maintained by the Japanese in centuries. "Go" is the Japanese word of the chess board or chess "stand" should I say (please correct me if I am wrong here). I think Japanese granted Grades (Duan in Mandarin) to professional "Go" players first and now China and Korea follow. The top tier players bear Grade 9. The game has not been a hit in Mainland China for decades until 1980s, when China and Japan began to hold inter-country competitions annually. There were interesting stories in those competitions and it was due to those competitions and their news, I started to learn the game by myself. Unfortunately, the game was too sophisticated to me (also there were very few players around me to start with) hence I gave up like half a year later. Nowadays, the best "Go" player is a guy from Korea named Li. The Koreans have dominated the games since 90s and recently our players are catching up.
Risk Settlers of catan Those are the two games that I played most. Both are great games, I prefer games in which you do not need luck that much.
