Hi, just stumbled across your channel. Love the video. Your shelf of games looks quite similar to my collection! What's your take on fit to print? I own the other three games (cascadia, verdant, calico) but I also own art society and world wonders which are both tile placement games so I'm unsure if I need fit to print!

love the new thumbnail format- really eye catching. Monikers sounds like a lot of fun, too. Thanks for the rec!

Hi, I really taught that for Clue yall would recommend Deception, murder in Hong Kong, and for Monopoly maybe Monopoly deal, a faster funner version. For Risk I taught maybe Memoir 44. But thanks for the suggestion seemed like a fun topic

Cool list. TI seems a big step up from Risk! I'd try Small World or (Vinci) for a tighter faster empire building game.

What a brilliant video! This is the first time I've come across your channel, and if all the content's as good as this, you're going to end up stuck with me as a subscriber (you've been given fair warning!). Some of the classic games on your list, I still really enjoy. Sorry! for example, I'll play that game every night of the week, and twice on a Sunday if anyone else wants to join me, love that game. Mind you, your replacement for it, Camel Up, is an absolutely fun and fantastic game too; maybe we'll drop one of the playthroughs of Sorry! on Sundays, and have a go at Camel Up instead? Cluedo (where I am) is the hill I die on! This is purely becasue of the nostalgia, it was the first "real" game I ever owned when I got it for Christmas back in the day. I admit it has it weaknesses, but I still have it on a pedestal from which it can't be shaken. I haul it out if at all possible, and my gaming buddies will even indulge me sometimes. The Game of Life you upgraded to Heat, now that's a jump! You went from possibly the second worst game of all time - Mastermind is the absolute pits of all games - to a modern classic. Me, I'd happily accept an evening of Tic-Tac-Toe before playing The Game of Life. For a long duration game you had Risk as the classic, upgrading to Twilight Imperium. I can see where you're coming from here, TI is an excellent game, even if I've only ever played it once, but it's certainly much more expensive than Risk. But actually, if I want a long duration game, I go back to a classic. It has treachery... backbiting... conquest... and can end up in fisticuffs if played with the wrong crowd, but dang it's fun, and it is, of course, Diplomacy! The only downside - apart from the time spent in hospital after the game ends - is player elimination, especially Austria. There's no doubt about it, if you draw Austria, it's not unlikely you'll spend most of the evening playing Patience/Solitaire. But apart from that, Diplomacy has it all, and when played with experienced players, a good game of it can almost be a form of art.

Love the channel, the audio was a little low, fyi, keep up the great content :-)

I agree with these to a point. One we start monopoly with 10 times the money, pass out all properties randomly… game is over in less than an hour… we learned this from Wii Monopoly… it eliminates the 2-3 hours of randomness with the dice rolling to get the properties randomly… pass them out randomly and that thane 30 seconds…. This makes the game amazing. My young kids taught me this when Wii Monopoly came out…. Next, Risk is amazing! Twilight Imperium is amazing… but if you have a version that has amazing pieces like the Lord of the Rings Risk it is still a great game… will never stop playing Risk for Twilight Imperium…. I have 6 kids two son in laws ranging from 30 down to 17…. They all grab the Risk game over Twilight Imperium. But it is the new version that has tasks for you to complete!!!

ive needed this list for a while for my moms chuch angel tree cause not only are the more well known games not good but recently they have been WAY more expensive

This was really cool! I've never heard of most of these games before but would love to give them all a try. Lol that was pretty awesome you ended with Risk cause the entire time I was thinking I wonder if Risk will be on here. I used to play it with my friends all the time back in the day, but it does have some serious flaws, the worst of which is it's like 99% luck. It doesn't matter how good of a strat you have, if the dice are mad at you for some reason that day, you have no chance of winning. I will most definitely be checking Twilight Imperium out

Great video! I'll have to check out that camels game, sound fun! Yeah -- in defense of classic games -- one thing I've found that in general modern games are crunchier. I dislike Monopoly, but lots of those other games I'd argue are actually pretty good -- for one reason they are super simple, and very easy to learn. How are the games you recommended in terms of complexity? I introduced some of the couples we hang out with to Uno -- and they love Uno (great drink beer or wine, socialize, simple to play, and very fun). Anything like Uno? -- and key here is simple -- my complaint with many modern games is that they IMO have gotten more complex -- this is fantastic if you are really into board games -- but if it's the occasional game -- where half the fun is socializing -- do you have any recommendations? All the games except for the camel game you recommended -- all sound more complex than the game you're suggesting they replace.

Really glad to see Acquire being listed as the alternative to Monopoly. It is such a good game that I think more people would enjoy if they had the chance to play it.

And somewhere out there on the internet there's someone's saying "don't you hate it when you run into someone and they say their favorite game is TI4? Don't play king of tokyo, play diceforge. Don't play mysterium, play paranormal detectives. Don't play acquire, play Age of steam. Don't play TI4, play Eclipse." (Hint: it might be me, I i might be that person)

I once played a game of monopoly where we decided that you’re not out if you’re broke, because that was mean... We worked with debts.

Super Mario LIFE is pretty great. Can't wait until you show it!!

If monopoly is your favorite game, I suggest you play a second board game

Being snobs about board games is a great way to get folks to try something new. You like MONOPOLY? You suck. lol

i like monopoly.