Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on 35 years of making games

Re:Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on 35 years... by NortySpock on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:56PM (#22668643)

Settlers of Catan and Ticket To Ride are both good intros to so-called European style board games, that tend to lack player-elimination and track win progress abstractly in terms Victory Points rather than money or army strength.

Play time of either of the two is 60-90 minutes, Catan seats 4 and TTR seats 5.

Of the two, I prefer TTR, and if you can find it I recommend Ticket To Ride: Europe over the original American one as it has nicer full size cards, adds a nice friendly track-sharing "station" rule that can get you out of a jam, and has a random-chance "tunnel" rule that can add a bit of excitement to your turn if you succeed or fail to dig a tunnel.

I also suggest watching play-throughs or reviews on YouTube. Geek and Sundry has Tabletop playthroughs with Will Wheaton, and Shut Up And Sit Down has reviews done by a British group.

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Re:Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield on 35 years... by tasogare on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:15AM (#22674208)

Settlers of Catan also have a 1vs1 card game spin-off that I like very much. The game was ported online https://catanuniverse.com/en/rivals-for-catan/

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