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Reddit mentions of Guillotine
Sentiment score: 18
Reddit mentions: 24
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- 30 minute playing time
- Fast paced and fun
- 100 playing cards, rules
- Easy to learn
- Tons of replay value
Features:
Specs:
Height | 0.88 Inches |
Length | 7 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
Width | 4.88 Inches |
I own all of these (plus quite a few more), and enjoy playing them regularly. Prices are approximately accurate at places like Target, walmart, Amazon, etc. Most games below can be played by up to 4-6 players (some more), but all support a minimum of two. (An important distinction, as many games require 3 or more players.)
$5-10:
$10-20:
Here, we start getting into some really interesting ones...
$20-30
$30-50
A bit pricier here, but some very interesting gameplay is to be found.
Gloom
Guillotine
Munchkin
Bohnanza
High Heel Wine Caddy (not a board game)
Guillotine (BGG; $14 at Amazon) is a 2-5 person card game based on the French Revolution.
The game takes place over three rounds ("days"). Each day, you line up twelve noble cards. Each noble has a different point value. At the end of each turn, a player decapitates the noble at the front of the line. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins (novel concept, right?)
Every turn, you can:
In addition, certain nobles have special actions that trigger when collected, allowing you to draw more cards, gain points, or extend the day.
Really simple to learn, with a skill cap coming in 3 or 4 games later, once you've learned all the cards. Pretty luck based (depends on card draw,) but fun nonetheless. I play 5-6 games on a gaming night, then don't touch it for a few weeks. It's a ton of fun as long as it's not the only game you're playing.
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Farkle, Killer Bunnies, Munchkin, Netrunner, x-wing, jaiper (super fun 2 player game), Guillotine, Small World...we can't think of any other ones at this time.
She isn't a nerd or anything, but she really likes playing games together. It brings us closer (even though the loser usually wants to strangle the winner for a few minutes after the game). Lots of "I WANT A REMATCH" and "THAT WAS PURE LUCK" is said around our dinner table.
And y'know. Cards Against Humanity, or maybe the more PC Apples to Apples...
>Guillotine – $13.99 - 2-5 Players, 15-20 mins
Fun head to head card game
Hmmmmm
guillotine is a really great game that's cheap. great for non-gamer types, too
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I went into your movie list and chose The Hobbit. I actually just watched this a couple of days ago and it was awesome. Long but awesome.
Here's a card game around 20 bucks from my list - of course you don't have to buy it. But you should consider putting it on your wishlist because it's super fun!
Board games are awesome. I wish my FH and I could play video games together, but I get motion sick from 90% of the ones we try. Board games, luckily, don't elicit the same response. We recently started playing one called Guillotine that's pretty fun!
edit: technically, Guillotine is a card game, not a board game. Close enough!
Dinner was my only meal for the day, which is the only reason it looks so nice! 😆
It's more simple than the games you listed, but I've never gotten a bad review from Guillotine. It's quick to learn, all the cards say what they do, it's funny, it's colorful, and has the right balance of randomness and strategy that lets experienced players play better, but other players always have a chance to get back in the game.
Set is another game I'd recommend, though it is a bit tougher. It's all about finding a pattern and calling it first, so usually adults/older kids have the advantage (though you'd be amazed how fast kids pick up on that stuff).
In my experience, Puerto Rico is very long and very difficult to master. Dominion is rather light and fast, but the interactions between cards take time to learn. As juniperapolo said, Pandemic is good (all the players team up against the board), though it can be a bit random and intense sometimes. Roborally is ok; it's a bit long, and, in my experience, one person ends up way ahead by the second or third checkpoint, and everyone else has no chance of catching up for the entire second half of the game. And I'm all for teaching kids Arkham Horror ;)
Also, if they have Catan, maybe getting the Seafarer's expansion might be good, or the 5-6 player expansion.
speaking of the french revolution have you ever heard of the game Guillotine
It's my favorite simple card game where the object of the game is to cut off the heads of people in power. It's hilarious... and fun.. and a great party game for 2-6 players. I've held a couple contests here and there gifting this game.. that is how much i love it. lol
Guillotine is my favorite little card game, cheap to buy and everyone I've played it with has loved it. 2-5 players
My favorite game is hard to choose. On PC it'd be Dragon Age series/Mass Effect Series/Elder Scrolls series all tied. Board game is Arkham Horror.
My item choices: a game for fun, a game for parties, or a game for the love of Cthulhu! You choose :D
These are great suggestions. Other light, cheap games I enjoy are:
Guillotine
Its easy to learn how to play, a lot of fun, and a great game to play if you don't have much time.
Also, it comes with a cut out of a Guillotine, which is cool.. right?
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Woo! Fluxx is one of my favorites! You should check out Guillotine.
Guillotine is a light, fun, party game that scales well. The rules are bone simple, the turns move fast, and there's enough strategy to keep your nerdcore friends happy (maybe).
http://www.amazon.com/Wizards-of-the-Coast-5510919/dp/B000ARTT7S
I am in the minority here, but I'd suggest you be relaxed about maintaining the condition of your games. Yeah, I get that they are expensive, but they are toys. My most played games are beat up because when my group gets together, we drink and eat all the cheetos money will buy. And you know what? The games still play just the same, and no one feels bad if they spill some beer on the board. It is a welcoming environment.
On the flip side, I once get yelled at for flexing my Cards Against Humanity hand. Fuck that.
Cosmic Wimpout, Guillotine and Battle Line are all personal favorite 'small' travel games.
Guillotine. Played this game hundreds of times over the last 15-20 years or so, well worth the ten bucks I spent on it. Easy to learn, quick game, good at various levels of drunkeness, just enough strategy to make the hard core gamers happy while simple enough for even drunk idiots to play.
Here is a ridiculously fun card game that I had the chance to play once at a game store. I really enjoyed it, and maybe you would too!
Here's what I'd do if I had to rebuild a collection from scratch for $1k trying to have a wide variety of play styles:
7 Wonders $32.99
Agricola $45.79
Battlestar Galactica $39.97
Carcassonne $30.02
Carcassonne Inns & Cathedrals$15.71
Dixit $22.65
Dominion Big Box $69.18 Prosperity is one of the best expansions; Alchemy is not, but you're pretty much getting it for free in this set.
Eclipse $61.49 It wouldn't be a board game library without a 4X game, and I think Eclipse is the best currently.
Eldritch Horror $40.47 - I love Arkham Horror, but Eldritch streamlines a lot of the fiddly rules of the original.
Formula D [$41.96] (http://www.amazon.com/Asmodee-FDUSASM-Formula-D/dp/2914849648/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1395757676&sr=1-1&keywords=formula+d)
Gloom $17.98
Guillotine $13.52
King of Tokyo $30.19
Love Letter $9.34
Memoir 44 $47.43
No Thanks! $9.98
Pandemic $31.65
Power Grid $32.27
Puerto Rico [$31.20] (http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-195RGG-Puerto/dp/B00008URUT/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395756360&sr=8-1&keywords=puerto+rico)
Race for the Galaxy $24.11
Resistance, The $17.99
Roborally $37.49
Settlers of Catan $37.99
Telestrations $19.99 Awesome and funny party game. My friends and I eventually tire of Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity, but seldom do so with this.
Ticket to Ride $37.24
Ticket to Ride 1910 Expansion $18.21
Tsuro $24.22
Twilight Struggle $49.98
Village $35.47
Wits & Wagers $19.99
That comes up to $946.47; room for a couple more expansions or another game.
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If friends like the same kind of games that I like, then I like to give out [Bohnanza] (https://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-RGG-155/dp/B00008URUS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469562466&sr=8-1&keywords=bohnanaza) and [Guillotine] (https://www.amazon.com/Wizards-of-the-Coast-5510919/dp/B000ARTT7S/ref=pd_sim_21_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51XbxH977yL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL320_SR216%2C320_&psc=1&refRID=6T7SEJV85QKQKCQJNC1Q) and [Timeline] (https://www.amazon.com/Asmodee-TIM01USASM-Timeline/dp/B005N57CNU/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1469562501&sr=1-1&keywords=timeline).
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