itsbrianyay @ 21/3/2016 13:42

dunno how old your kids are but if you like cooperative games, give hanabi a shot. it's my absolute favorite co-op game of all time but it's a lot of logic and memory, so i wouldn't recommend it for young'uns.

kids are 13 and 11, but they are pretty advanced. Will give it a look.

Dadd @ 21/3/2016 13:43

I need to buy some of these. You guys ordering the online? I have 17yr old girl (she's into Sherlock Holmes, etc.), 16-yr old girl (she's agreeable, but would probably only play cause its family time), 13 yr old girl (see last girl), and a 11-yr old boy (he's into star wars, games, etc.) What would you recommend for a wide assortment of players? I like the idea of a coop game.

While not a co-op (though we sometimes play it more cooperative) we've been playing the old 221B Baker Street game. Fun puzzling Holmes cases, but not so basic like Clue. It also has a lot of pun-type figuring out: for example, they might have two suspects names Longford and Tallfellow and you'll get a Killer Clue (Two Parts) I: opposite of short. You then look and either one could be the killer, so then you find the second killer clue and it says Killer Clue (Two Parts): Norwegian sea inlet, so you then know the killer has to be Longford. Sometimes you get the second clue first and you sit forever trying to figure out what the damn word is supposed to be.

I'll look for that one, sounds fun. The younger ones like Clue, but it's getting a bit to basic, easy for them.

Dadd @ 21/3/2016 14:43

I need to buy some of these. You guys ordering the online? I have 17yr old girl (she's into Sherlock Holmes, etc.), 16-yr old girl (she's agreeable, but would probably only play cause its family time), 13 yr old girl (see last girl), and a 11-yr old boy (he's into star wars, games, etc.) What would you recommend for a wide assortment of players? I like the idea of a coop game.

i bought pandemic from the toys r us in kingstowne actually, but it only plays up to 4 (there's probably an expansion to increase the max)

but i've bought most of mine online.

i played flash point once, and it was pretty fun. it's pretty similar to pandemic in a lot of ways (co-op, trying to accomplish goal before X happens, everyone has a role that helps them do certain tasks, you have a certain number of moves per turn, etc) and it was pretty challenging when we played. essentially you're firefighters trying to rescue people from a burning building before it collapses.

betrayal at the house on the hill is really fun too. you are people exploring a haunted house and you all start on the same team, but eventually the "haunt" will trigger and based on how it occurred, there are like a billion different scenarios for how the rest of the game works. USUALLY, one player turns evil somehow and has to kill the others or prevent them from escaping or whatever, and the remaining players will have to kill the traitor, escape, etc. it's really fun and has tons of replay value since there are so many scenarios

my roommate has panic station which is good. you're astronauts or something on an ship infested with parasitic aliens and your goal is to explore the ship, find the hive, and burn it down. but, someone has secretly been infected by the parasite and is trying to sabotage the rest of the team, either by infecting and converting, killing everyone, or just making sure it's impossible to burn down the hive. this game is fun but it's not super balanced, and it's hard to succeed as the traitor without being super obvious about being scum. also it takes a while to learn what all the items/rules are.

I got drunk

oh, mysterium is pretty fun, but kinda out of the box for me.

basically everyone plays a medium except one person, who plays a ghost that is trying to convey details of different murders (each medium gets one murder) - who did it, where, and with what. but the only thing the ghost has at its disposal is a handful of cards with drawings on them. it's hard to explain..

here's a video tutorial, i have no idea if it's good or not, but it should explain it better than what i'm saying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1BvMPf1gCE

anyway, the mediums can help each other try to decipher the hints they're given, and they can only be wrong a certain amount of times before they fail the objective.

DEAD OF WINTER

It's great

Dadd @ 21/3/2016 14:06

I'll look for that one, sounds fun. The younger ones like Clue, but it's getting a bit to basic, easy for them.

Essentially, like Clue, you are traveling from location to location, but each location in a case has a number associated with it. You look up that numbered clue in the book. Sometimes it is useful, sometimes it's a red herring, and sometimes it just says "No Clue" and you get pissed and throw shit. Often the cases themselves will indicate areas you may want to check out (like the case may say "After watching an opera at the Playhouse, they retired to their room in the Hotel." so you know there might be something useful in both those locations.

Curtis @ 21/3/2016 14:37

DEAD OF WINTER It's great

I haven't gotten this, but, as I said, I already have Zombies!!! and ten or so expansions, so I haven't been in a rush to get another zombie game, but I like the cooperative aspect.

I'm also thinking about getting Red Dragon Inn at some point, but then I think that's the slippery slope of having to get all the expansions there.

red dragon inn is so fun! especially if you actually drink along with it.

itsbrianyay @ 21/3/2016 15:01

red dragon inn is so fun! especially if you actually drink along with it.

Sounds like a good game to play with the family !

Dadd @ 21/3/2016 13:43

I need to buy some of these. You guys ordering the online? I have 17yr old girl (she's into Sherlock Holmes, etc.), 16-yr old girl (she's agreeable, but would probably only play cause its family time), 13 yr old girl (see last girl), and a 11-yr old boy (he's into star wars, games, etc.) What would you recommend for a wide assortment of players? I like the idea of a coop game.

When is the 17yr old's b-day? jw

itsbrianyay @ 21/3/2016 15:14

Dadd @ 21/3/2016 14:43 I need to buy some of these. You guys ordering the online? I have 17yr old girl (she's into Sherlock Holmes, etc.), 16-yr old girl (she's agreeable, but would probably only play cause its family time), 13 yr old girl (see last girl), and a 11-yr old boy (he's into star wars, games, etc.) What would you recommend for a wide assortment of players? I like the idea of a coop game. betrayal at the house on the hill is really fun too. you are people exploring a haunted house and you all start on the same team, but eventually the "haunt" will trigger and based on how it occurred, there are like a billion different scenarios for how the rest of the game works. USUALLY, one player turns evil somehow and has to kill the others or prevent them from escaping or whatever, and the remaining players will have to kill the traitor, escape, etc. it's really fun and has tons of replay value since there are so many scenarios .

I highly recommend this game

I play hide the salami with the wife. It's a fun game. I recommend.

My girlfriend got pretty pissed since I was spending so much time on my phone looking at some 'weird fucking forum'