“Come over and play board games!” they said. “It’ll be fun!”

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The 22 Easiest Ways To Destroy Any Friendship

“Come over and play board games!” they said. “It’ll be fun!”

 

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-22-easiest-ways-to-destroy-any-friendship?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Buzzfeed&utm_campaign=BuzzFeed%20Today%20v2.3

[Doug Sundseth]

The number one way?

Diplomacy.

[Foxfire]

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24037/escape-from-atlantis

 

I'm reliably informed from a friend that this game got banned from her house as their family used to end with a tabletop flip 9/10 games :D

[smokingwreckage]

Yeah, Diplomacy. Played it ONCE.

[klawzie]

I only purchase games that can be played cooperatively or as "party games" for our household. I lean heavily towards cooperative games because certain members of the house can dominate the party games, leading to others not wanting to play at all.

[Doug Sundseth]

Yeah, Diplomacy. Played it ONCE.

 

I actually quite like Diply, but you really have to be careful about who you play it with. Since there is no randomness in the game other than other players' actions, and since the game is balanced toward stalemate without betrayal, betrayal is just about the only way to win. If you can't deal with that, it's absolutely not the game for you. (I have quite a few gamer friends that I would never want to play Diplomacy with, for instance.)

[smokingwreckage]

Yeah same, it could be fine with the right crowd. But for backstabbing, the Illuminati card game is best. It's a requirement of the rules that if anyone leaves the room, you have to conspire against them. Plus it's so over the top and villainous that stupid betrayals are all part of the fun.

[Pingo]

The site crashed my ipad Safari, but what I saw of it looked cute.

 

Funny thing, we play Illuminati, but we sort of treat it like Munchkin, that the point of the game is to build the silliest structure possible. We're not very cutthroat with it.

 

For the same reason we removed some of the cards from our Talisman deck decades ago, the ones that basically spell out instant death for whichever player gets them.

[CaptainPete]

The one time I played Illuminati, I had to use the restroom half-way though the game. My friends screwed me over so hard that I just gave up after another 45 minutes of playing. When I noticed that stuff they had done, they pointed to the rules and said it was okay in the rules. Not fun.

[redambrosia]

The one time I played Illuminati, I had to use the restroom half-way though the game. My friends screwed me over so hard that I just gave up after another 45 minutes of playing. When I noticed that stuff they had done, they pointed to the rules and said it was okay in the rules. Not fun.

I'd repay them with laxitive laced cupcakes.

[buglips*the*goblin]

I'm not allowed to play Monopoly anymore. Ever again.

 

Do you remember Star Wars Episode I Monopoly? That was the last time I was allowed. Because that was the birth of "Fine Print Jar-Jar" and heesa gonna throws you muy muy onto de cold streets if youse no gotta his monies, okey-dey?

[smokingwreckage]

Hesa cut you, okey-dey?

[smokingwreckage]

Captain Pete, that kinda sucks. There's really no point forming a great big fixed alliance against one person. The idea is to backstab everyone, as frequently as possible! Stacks-on is crap.

[buglips*the*goblin]

 

The one time I played Illuminati, I had to use the restroom half-way though the game. My friends screwed me over so hard that I just gave up after another 45 minutes of playing. When I noticed that stuff they had done, they pointed to the rules and said it was okay in the rules. Not fun.

I'd repay them with laxitive laced cupcakes.

 

 

 

Now that's what I call a cornspiracy!

[sethohman]

For the same reason we removed some of the cards from our Talisman deck decades ago, the ones that basically spell out instant death for whichever player gets them.

 

We always have a no Dwarf allowed in Talisman - way too easy to win with him.