I don’t see how puzzle solving can be a con. I think this might be the man of my friend’s dreams more than mine. I think when you have a single friend you really hope you like whoever they end up dating and marrying. I’ve had friendships end or not see someone when they’re partner doesn’t get along with the friend group.
Discussion
That does happen.
However, that is because the two strangered people do not have a contact point for friendship. That can be through values alone, even if the leisure activities are different.
Friendship is a topic quite well developed in Philosophy. More so with the classic Greeks.
What is your favorite table top game? Or puzzle to be assembled.
I have a 1,000 piece puzzle of Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights that I’ve never managed to fully assemble before needing the table top back.
Table top games lately I’ve been playing a lot of Monopoly, The Game of Life, and/or Sorry! with my nephew.
I like those games very much.
I collect table top games and cardgames.
I have some versions of monopoly and War as well. Some worldwide famous games or just worldwide not very well-known good games.
What are your favorite tabletop games?
Katan
Les loups garou
The Resistance and The Resistance: Avalon
The three last ones are on the pictures.
Do you know any of those?
I’ve never played any of them. Only heard of Katan previously. I’m far from a board game connoisseur.
I will tell you about them.
Loups-Garous de Thiercelieux was translated to Werewolves of Miller's Hollow for English-speaking audience.
The mechanics is each player receives a random card identifying him or her with a character from a village. Some of those players are leaders or personalities with special powers. Others are werewolves. During the turn cycles we play out as days and nights in-game. The werewolves choose a player to die in the nighttime and the others must find out and vote for killing a suspect in day time.
If the werewolves survive, they win.
For resistance the mechanics are similar. You must find out who is the person sabotaging the resistances plans in a dystopian society. Who is the traitor?
Sounds interesting. How long does it normally take to play the game? What’s the ideal number of players?
Average 30 minutes and 8 to 18 players. I would say the werewolves game is suited for any party you attend and a certain group of people feel like being distracted for a short time. So, 12 people would seem like a good number. The minimum and maximum numbers are good.
For the resistance game, I would say it might be fun at parties, but probably in a simplified version, rather than the by the book.
There are SO MANY great new tabletop games that have come out in the past decade or two. If you want to be The Cool Aunt(TM) get him something that came out recently. I recommend (depending on age) Catan Junior, Ghost Fighter’ Treasure Hunters, and King of Tokyo. If a little older, check out Forbidden Desert, Concept, and maybe Settlers of Catan (non-junior). Have fun!
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