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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/des ... he-planet/
https://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardg ... ortdir=asc

Random stats:
I've played 13 out of the top 100.
I've played 16 out of the bottom 20. (I feel like it's kind of unfair to compare some of these classics but meh)
Highest ranked game played Tera Mystica (#2) - (only one game, pretty long and very extensive rules but wouldn't mind playing again)
Current favorite is still probably Dominion (#30)
2nd Current favorite is Lords of Waterdeep (#28)

For board game players what's everyone playing/favorite right now?

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Our regular rotation includes:

Dominion
Small World
Lords of Waterdeep
Citadels
EPIC SPELL WARS OF THE BATTLE WIZARDS: DUEL AT MT. SKULLZFYRE
Pandemic
Ascension
Dixit

I think Small World is #1 in one of my groups. Dominion is #1 in my other group.

Some games I wish we had more time for:
Betrayal at the House on the Hill
A 4x space strategy I've only ever played once and can't remember the name of (Edit: It's Eclipse)
Munchkin

We put down Dominion and played split screen Rocket League last week instead. I gotta say, video games got it going on.

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Carcassonne and Agricola are too competitive for kicking back on a weekend.

Settlers is great; we've just kinda been there, played that, you know?

Forbidden Desert/Island doesn't seem to have enough state.

There's a Star Wars geek in one of my groups that keeps buying Star Wars games. I get kind of tired of them.

I don't remember why we don't play Puerto Rico.

King of Tokyo ain't bad, but it's in sort of an awkward place between zany luck-based chaos and something you can execute to a strategy. I think it'd benefit from an expansion that leans more one way or the other.

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I think what these dice games need to add is a bidding phase where the players do selection without replacement for dice pools. That'd add additional strategy without making it Agricola-style pure strategy.

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Axis and Allies just draaags but there's some simple moves you can make that seriously fuck you over. It's bad design.

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Jon, what's your favorite/least favorite expansion for Dominion?

I recently tried a pure alchemy expansion game and it made it suck much less however at times aggregating (due to this card http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Possession). But still seems like a slower pace game. Prosperity is still my favorite and works well mixed in with all the other expansions etc.

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I wanted to play dominion for a while now, but I don't have any friends here :-( I wish they would hurry up and release the pc version of the game already

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Hinterlands, I guess is my favorite.

There's a browser version my friend played a lot.

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Jonathan wrote:Hinterlands, I guess is my favorite.

There's a browser version my friend played a lot.
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Apparently it got shut down.

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https://www.playdominion.com/Dominion/gameClient.html

Vinny and I have played this quite a bit and it even has an online play w/ friends type of thing. It's free for the base game and it even has a cute campaign mode w/ an interesting mechanic to modify difficulty. A word of caution though, it's eventually going to be replaced...

http://beta.playdominion.com/

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http://xkcd.com/1566/
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If anyone wants to learn to play terra Mystica with me, we can play online here:

http://terra.snellman.net
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Maybe someone needs to make a HotS board game... Anyone want to post about anything other than HotS?
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quantus wrote:If anyone wants to learn to play terra Mystica with me, we can play online here:

http://terra.snellman.net
Interesting they have an "email" mode. Might give it a try, however the letter abbreviations might be a bit much for me.

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I leveled Zeratul to 5! Now double bomb got nerfed I can kind of do him (cuz AA). Still pretty bad at changing my combo up over the course of the game.

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quantus wrote:If anyone wants to learn to play terra Mystica with me, we can play online here:

http://terra.snellman.net
I spend like 2 minutes looking, but where are the game rules?

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Peijen wrote:
quantus wrote:If anyone wants to learn to play terra Mystica with me, we can play online here:

http://terra.snellman.net
I spend like 2 minutes looking, but where are the game rules?
interesting, I couldn't find it either. I googled and found the pdf.

http://zmangames.com/rulebooks/Terra_Mystica.pdf

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They assume you already know the rules or have google-fu
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