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Jan 24 '12 by Bramish
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Two player board games

My girlfriend and I love board games but we're a bit bored (heehee) of the ones we have. Can you recommend some good two player ones that have a decent longevity.

General knowledge is no good, nor are word-based games, since we have different mother tongues.

At the moment we're digging this:

and we really want this:

Any more?

Morkki on Jan 24 '12 at 4:07am

I'd recommend Torres, Ingenious and Lost Cities. Out of those three Lost Cities is the only pure 2 player game. Not very deep but fun. Torres works better with 3 or 4 but is perfectly playable with two.

psherman42 on Jan 24 '12 at 4:15am

Is the preference towards more modern board games? Otherwise, the first few that come to mind for me are checkers, chess, othello, and backgammon.

Tonteau on Jan 24 '12 at 5:06am

Rumis, is boss.

2-4 players.

Morkki on Jan 24 '12 at 5:29am

Rumis reminds me of a game called Pueblo which I enjoyed a lot.

taz-pie on Jan 24 '12 at 5:32am

y'alls racist.
whatabout monoploy

Bramish on Jan 24 '12 at 5:33am

psherman42 on Jan 24 '12 at 4:15am
Is the preference towards more modern board games? Otherwise, the first few that come to mind for me are checkers, chess, othello, and backgammon.

I guess so, yeah - we have chess etc. Still need to learn backgammon though.

Tonteau on Jan 24 '12 at 5:42am

Think Rumis is also called Blokus 3-d. It's bastard hard to get your hands on.

squintygirl on Jan 24 '12 at 8:22am

Man, I LOVE Blokus, even though I stink at it.

Sequence is also addictive. I stink at it, too, but it's still fun.

lemonalle on Jan 24 '12 at 8:54am

Stratego, Ticket to Ride

Mya Jamila on Jan 24 '12 at 11:09am

Ticket to Ride is fun.

toopersent on Jan 24 '12 at 11:15am

Stratego. Hands down my favorite two player board game. There is also a fun and obscure game called Scotland Yard, which can be played by two to six people.

I used to play this when I was young, in the late 80's early 90's. Incredibly fun.

martiandrivein on Jan 24 '12 at 11:20am

Man, that's the dilemma my gf and I have. all the games we like to play involve other people.

spacesick on Jan 24 '12 at 11:26am

for some reason I can never get tired of Monopoly Deal or Connect Four

WarDrobeInSpareOom on Jan 24 '12 at 11:31am

Brian just taught me to play Rummikub recently.

It's pretty fun.

Kookaberry on Jan 24 '12 at 11:34am

Beth (noodlezoop) has a legendary closet full of board games. I haven't seen her on Threadless in aaaaages, though. But if she's on your FB you should hit her up.

xiv on Jan 24 '12 at 11:39am

Steve The Great on Jan 24 '12 at 11:44am

Oh, people already said Stratego.

spacesick on Jan 24 '12 at 11:47am

rummikub for life! mostly because I like gin. also the gin card game.

toopersent on Jan 24 '12 at 11:49am

"Go" is fun and simple. Very basic, but very strategic as well.

You can find more about it Here

toopersent on Jan 24 '12 at 11:56am

Morkki also mentioned lost cities, which is fun and quick. I think the average game lasts about 30-45 minutes.

papercliche on Jan 24 '12 at 3:22pm

Sequence and Rummikub are favorites, but I also like a good game of Scrabble. Sequence is the best of the three, though.

tracerbullet on Jan 24 '12 at 3:29pm

rummikub rulez

tracerbullet on Jan 24 '12 at 3:29pm

Mastermind is a great thinking/logic game

L-M-N-O-P on Jan 24 '12 at 3:42pm

Not sure if this was mentioned already, but my grandparents introduced me to this a few weeks ago:

It's a 'travel' game: you try to impede the other's roadtrip by popping tires, putting a speed limit on them, etc.
It's fun once you get the hang of it, and the cards have a pleasantly retro vibe:

I guess the game itself is quite old.

Resistance on Jan 24 '12 at 3:51pm

Monopoly Deal is fun, but with 2 people you need to remove the two cards that let you steal an entire set of property.

Scrabble and Stratego are good.

Not sure how easy it is to find, but Word Spot is pretty fun.

Also, is the Phase 10 board game better than the plain 'ol card game?

Bramish on Jan 24 '12 at 4:52pm

Never played the card game, and as much as I love Scrabble and word games, it wouldn't really work with the two of us.

Some good looking ones mentioned though so far...

Tonteau on Jan 25 '12 at 6:16am

Re: Scrabble. Just switch languages every turn. One german, one english.

Bramish on Jan 25 '12 at 7:18am

Nah she'd cane me - her English pisses all over my German

martiandrivein on Jan 25 '12 at 7:48am

haha Mille Bornes! My parents have that exact set with the duck on the 50.

I guess Boggle is a decent 2 player, and there's always Jenga too.

Tonteau on Jan 25 '12 at 8:40am

Bramish on Jan 25 '12 at 7:18am Nah she'd cane me - her English pisses all over my German

Two english for every one german, then. I'm determined to make this work.

Morkki on Jan 25 '12 at 9:34am

Bramish on Jan 25 '12 at 9:39am

Also, German Scrabble has a weird letter distribution - I'd have expected there to be more than one Z, Ü, Ö and Ä since they're all pretty common, but no. Interesting... verrry interesting.

martiandrivein on Jan 26 '12 at 1:16pm

If you have an iPad, this game is hysterical.

Morkki on Jan 26 '12 at 6:01pm

I noticed that Carcassonne hasn't been mentioned. If you are not familiar with it, you should be! Works great with 2-4 players.

d3d on Jan 26 '12 at 6:03pm

sex

[+duracell-] on Jan 26 '12 at 6:30pm

75 days later

Bramish on Apr 11 '12 at 9:42am

We got this:

And fucking love it!

We borrowed this:

And fucking love it!

We also borrowed this:

It's alright.

Tonteau on Apr 11 '12 at 10:18am

RUMIS! Man I love that game.

Bramish on Apr 11 '12 at 10:31am

Tough to get hold of though, like you said. I found it here in a shop for 40 quid. 40 QUID!

Jaakie201 on Apr 11 '12 at 1:18pm

Carcassonne is fun!

rhythmdev9 on Apr 11 '12 at 1:28pm

i love both of those... also there a great card game called Dominion that my friends and I play a ton

Tonteau on Apr 11 '12 at 3:22pm

Bramish on Apr 11 '12 at 10:31am
Tough to get hold of though, like you said. I found it here in a shop for 40 quid. 40 QUID!

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Save a search on ebay, I got one off ebay for £12.75

d3d on Apr 11 '12 at 5:55pm

a friend of mine had a good one called Cathedral. and thinkgeek have something like it which involves lasers. lasers!