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Board Games I Live With

• Anomia
• *Arkham Horror
• Ascension: Rise of Vigil
• Azul
• Bananagrams
• Battle Penguins
• *Battlestar Galactica
• Big Boggle
• Bohnanza
• Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game
• Captain Sonar
• Carcassonne
• Cards Against Humanity
• Catan variants
  • Catan (formerly known as The Settlers of Catan)
  • Catan (formerly known as The Settlers of Catan) with 5-6 player extension
  • Catan: Cities & Knights expansion (formerly known as The Cities and Knights of Catan)
  • Notes:
    • For initial setup, you can use a random or balanced map generator
    • You can decrease the variance of dice rolls by using a shuffled deck of playing cards (or two decks) instead. To prepare each deck, remove: All four aces, three 2s, two 3s, one 4, one 9, two jacks, and three queens, leaving 36 cards remaining. Treat the remaining jacks as 11s and the remaining queen as a 12. For the kings, treat ♣♠→7, ♦→6, ♥→8.
• Chess (one tournament set)
• Citadels with The Dark City expansion
• Codenames
• Decrypto
• *Descent: Journeys in the Dark (second edition)
• Dominion expansions: Dark Ages, Empires, and Seaside, Alchemy, Menagerie
  • Notes: Base rules aren't in the box. And, it is helpful to use dice or other counters to track available actions, buys, and coins.
• *Dropmix
• *The Emerald Flame
• 5211 (Azul Edition)
• Fluxx
• *The Fox in the Forest
• *Galaxy Trucker
• Go
• Hamsterrolle
• Hive
• In a Grove
• Isle of Skye: From Chieftain to King
• Jaipur
• Lords of Waterdeep
• *Lost Cities
• Magic: The Gathering
  • Proxy cube [ web list | plain text lists of normal cards and double-sided cards | web list of double-sided cards ]
  • Proxy EDH decks: Arbiter, Brago, Dragons, Xantcha, Purphoros (Goblins), and Kinnan (Elf UG)
  • MTG with regular playing cards seems like it might be a good way to introduce new players to the game
• Mice and Mystics (rulebook, video explaining rules)
• Monopoly Deal
• Moose Farkel (a variant of Farkle)
• Munchkin
• Munchkin Cthulhu
• Munchkin Deluxe
• Neuroshima Hex!
• New Bedford with Rising Tide expansion. (Note: The North Atlantic right whale depicted in the game is still heading towards extinction due to ship strikes and fishing gear entanglement.)
• Pandemic (two copies)
• Puerto Rico
• Railroad Ink deep blue edition
• The Resistance: Avalon (rules not in box)
• Reversi (also known as Othello)
• RoboRally
• *Runebound with Fall of the Dark Star scenario pack
• Slap .45 Mini
• Speed Dreidel with the additional rule that the player whose dreidel spins the longest in a round is immune from the penalty of shin in that round
• Small World
• Spirit Island
• Star Fluxx
• Star Realms with expansions Crisis: Heros and Colony Wars
• *Star Realms with expansions Crisis: Heros and Colony Wars
• *T.I.M.E Stories
• Trial by Trolley
• triplea-game.org software. It is open-source freeware.
• Twilight Struggle (rules not in box)
• Werewords (I just have the app, which is free)
• Wingspan with "Swift Start" tutorial, as well as the European Expansion, Oceania Expansion, Asia Expansion, and Digital Edition.
  • Wingsearch has most rulings. There is also a rulings pdf.
  • House rules: One free mulligan (discard all starting birds and bonus cards, and redraw). And, ravens can't gain nectar.