I'd Rather Be Playing ____ for 8 Hours
Matthew Cordeiro
United States
Cumberland
Rhode Island
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As I sit here at work, taking a break from cranking out Q1 financial reports, I'm thinking about how I'd rather be spending the day playing board games. The conditions couldn't be much better. I need to use some vacation time soon, it's raining, my wife is home today, and we even have a friend staying with us for a few days.
If you could play a game instead of being at work, which one would you choose? To make things interesting, let's say you could only choose one game, and you'd have to play it for the equivalent of a typical work day - 8 hours. (Obviously, you can play the game more than once.)
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Zack Boatman
United States
Santa Fe
New Mexico
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This is it for me. Two or three games in 8 hours would be sweet!
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Fedor Ilitchev
Canada
Ottawa
Ontario
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Yes, hypothetically, there are probably better choices - but, in practice, this is is the only board-game that I've actually spent 6-8 hours playing in one day. Come to think of it, I've had several such days... usually it had to do with us wanting to keep playing until we actually figured out how an apparently weaker side could win in a particular match-up.
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Sean Todd
United States
Bloomington
Minnesota
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My choice would be Magic Realm. I've played it twice recently and both times I thought the hours flew by. Runners up would be Dominant Species, Maria, and Space Hulk.
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Brian Le
United States
Columbus
Ohio
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I could, and have many times, play this for a whole weekend. So much more fun than the one that everyone knows.
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Jay LaFountain
United States
Coldwater
Michigan
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I might even be able to have a decent competition with this one if we played it twice! With rules explanation taking so long, and never seeming to be able to get the same players twice, this one is definitely the one I would pick. Plus it's almost like work!
This or Through the Ages that is.
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Andy Beaton
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
I have a cunning plan
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8 hours is just about enough time for a good, meaty scenario, or maybe 1 date in a campaign game.
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Paul Clarke
United Kingdom
Southampton
Hampshire
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18xx
My regular sessions are limited to 4-5 hours. It would be nice to play e.g. 1830 or some other game comfortably without having to worry about whether we'll have time to finish, or have to rush into moves without thinking about the consequences.
Edit: I don't mind massively which particular game, because I have only played a few titles.
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Board Game: Wizard
[Average Rating:6.85 Overall Rank:470]
Daniël Muilwijk
Netherlands
Zeist
Utrecht
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Somehow I'm able to keep playing this game for hours.
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Board Game: Titan
[Average Rating:7.08 Overall Rank:335]
Joe Neff
United States
Warrington
Pennsylvania
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If I had 8 hours for gaming, I'd love a quick, friendly game of Titan. Might even complete it!
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Board Game: Caylus
[Average Rating:7.97 Overall Rank:10]
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This game offers great variety between plays and numerous strategies to victory points. 8 hours would be 3-4 plays, which if all games were with the same set of 3-4 players, sounds like a ton of fun. It would be interesting to see how everyone would try to combat each other with each successive game and what buildings would or would not be built.
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United States
Columbus
Ohio
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Probably this -with the caveat that it be a rainy/stormy late October day to fit the theme better. Could probably get more than one game in which is fine since the set-up is rather involved and I don't get to play it that much.
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John Mendenhall
United States
Unspecified
DE
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Surprised no on else has put this up yet.
Easily have spent all day games playing this system. Always a great time, always a different game.
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Martin
United States
California
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I would go with either this or Origins: How We Became Human.
I'm not one to play one game over and over for several hours straight so I would much rather play one of the very-long games that I wouldn't normally have time to play.
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David Miller
United States
California
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My fingers will tire long before my readiness to play this game
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John Herrera
United States
San Jacinto
California
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This game does not hit the table as much as I would like it to. The rules are fairly simple, it just takes us a while to finish one game, so I would like 8 hours to play a few of these.
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LSU LSU
United States
Virginia Beach
Virginia
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This is the only 8 hour game length I've ever played. And it's been a while. But I loved it. A lot of games on this list look great.
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Allen Sam
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
WP
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This is a game I'd never turn down. So far have played 5 3p games and 1 4p game, I won't mind spending 8 hours playing this... Since our average 3p game time is about 2 hours plus, I guess we can play like 3 games in a row... It is as addictive as the PC game....
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Ben Skellett
Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
And the older you get, the fewer things you really love. And by the time you get to my age, maybe it's only one or two things. With me, I think it's one.
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Games with my group seem to take about 1 hour per player. A full 7-player game of this would be my ideal way of spending 8 hours.
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Board Game: 2038
[Average Rating:6.97 Overall Rank:1299]
Железный комиссар
United States
Madison
Wisconsin
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I'd play this for the first six and then go out for a round of beers afterward.
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Robert Foose
United States
Evansville
Indiana
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8 hours should be about right to get in one whole game
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Do I get to play with expansions?
Do I get to choose who I play with?
I would happily play this for 8 hours with a nice lunch break in between.
If we could get everyone from work to play I would organise a tournament of it!
Now that would be awesome!
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Andy Beaton
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
I have a cunning plan
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This one is actually more like "I'd rather be setting up for 8 hours", but it's the kind of wargame you can sink your teeth into for a full day.
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Jonathan Harrison
United States
Fisher
Illinois
South Quarter Independent Games
Firp! ding! blast!
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Because then it would be here.......
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Board Game: Go
[Average Rating:7.78 Overall Rank:44]
Tony Bosca
United States
Warren
Michigan
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...and lots of coffee. early afternoon is my favorite time to play go. so maybe start playing around 10 a.m. and finish around 6? leaves enough time to follow up with some of it's many derivatives... :0)
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Setting up and tearing down the game 2 hours and 6 for playing it.
In between couple of superb drams of whisky (lets say from the island of Islay) and after Sauna to wash the sweat of war away.
That would truly be excellent day.
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Buckeye
Arizona
København Ø
i do at least two 12-16 hour games days a month.
But a 24 hour one sounds epic.
In january I did a 32 hour (including 3 hours of sleep) gaming weekend with some friends. We mainly played Descent RtL - Do I need to say that it was awesome?
Alabama
Maniakoi
Kastoria
Oakland
California
I'd love to be able to play games all day long once in a while, but they'd be different games so I could savor and enjoy each one. I might play a couple back to back, but that'd be it.