I just ordered a game for my wife/friends and I called Summoner Wars. It's geared more toward an older set, and it's a fantasy card game, kinda like Magic tG, except instead of using the Collectible Card Game format, it's a Living Card Game: basically, the core set contains multiple complete decks, while expansions come in fixed packs (instead of blind-buy boosters).

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I like carcassonne. I play with my daughter. also Munchkin.

This one is hard to find, and it's more of a card game than a board game, but it is our family favourite. We never go camping without Jungle Jam!

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2857/jungle-jam

As a kid we played Battleship a lot and Stratego. As an adult we play a lot of Dominion and Carcasonne. We used to have some fun playing Settlers of Catan with mk and gq too.

Munchkin is a card game where you're allowed to cheat, and I love cheating.

I played a good game recently called Forbidden Island where you have to work together with the other players to retrieve treasures from an island and escape before it floods.

I still play Monopoly with my grandson once in a while (usually the Marvel or Star Wars themed versions). I find that kids like board games much more than video games (when given the choice), because what they really desire, deep down, is spending time interacting with you. It is just that simple.

We used to play Sorry constantly when I was a little kid. We then moved to a lot of the war-themed games as we got a little bit older, Risk, Stratego, Axis and Allies, etc. Axis and Allies was the best of the lot.

I played the Avalon Hill games a lot - Twixt and Acquire were two favorites.

There were plenty of games of Mastermind along the way, and mindless hours playing Yahtzee.

Steve Jackson Games had "microgames" which were really cheap and fun as wargames - anyone play Ogre or GEV?

My brother and I played a lot of board games on our boat growing up because whenever we went to Catalina for the week, weekend, etc. we had a no electronics rule. Our favorites were scrabble, yahtzee, trouble (we made other rules though were we each had 2 colors and could "king" ourselves and they could attack and all sorts of weird things.)

Monopoly but no one ever won/lost because the bank was very generous with loans.

We were also pretty good at building houses of cards, which is especially fun when the surface you're building on is a fucking boat.

We played Civilization the board game a number of times. That was about a 10 hour endeavor. I'm not sure if the game was fun, but hanging out and playing it was.

Diplomacy is a fantastic game.

I played mostly Monopoly and Scotland Yard. I got into boardgames more as I got older.

For those of you that play with the younger kids, do you let them win on purpose? I normally do take it easy on them so that they do not get discouraged right from the get go, but as they progress, I tend to try to win in earnest.

Khet is loads of fun too. Picked it up as a gift for an 8 year and he hearts it very much.