Top Rated Board Games
The good thing about Board Games, is that 90% of the time they remind you of some other game you have played before, thus reducing considerably the time required for adaptation. That is pretty much what happens with today’s games, and it is all for the better, particularly if you are competitive: no waiting time til you start enjoying the game and playing like a pro.
Hex Empire is, perhaps, the clearest example of all. The game resembles extremely popular board game Risk, in most – if not all – aspects. The objective is world domination, or map domination, at least. Good news is you can always change the map if you don’t like it, possibilities are almost endless. You choose one of the four possible capital cities according to your own strategic wisdom, and start conquering nearby towns as fast as you can. Once you encounter an enemy army, the battle will be decided not only depending on the number of soldiers you have, but also on how high their moral is. The game even gives you the chance to deliver a pep talk to the troops. What more can you ask for?
Zilch, on the other hand, is a dice game, similar to most dice games you may have played (in fact, I know I have played this exact game with onky five dices, I just cannot remember the name). This version allows you to a) play against another human being, if you want, whether online or one of your friends (maybe one of your online friends? 
), and b) choose among three levels of difficulty. The objective of the game is reaching 10000 points, for starters, which you may accomplish by throwing your six dices and getting aces, fives, three of any number, and some other slightly more complicated combinations. Of course, remembering all of them requires no effort, since the game automatically tells you when you score. The challenge lies in choosing with which dices you want to score, and when to stop throwing in order to bank the points you have obtained; because, say you have scored 3000 points, but haven’t banked them, and you throw the dice just one last time and it turns out it really is the last because you haven’t scored? Well, you lose EVERYTHING. True story. So you better play smart!
Crystal Golf Solitaire is similar to most solitaires, and a bit easy as far as they go because suits don’t matter. Well, perhaps easy is a word that may apply only to the first “Casual” level, because from then on, the remaining two levels have a way to make things a lot harder than expected. The objective of the game is of course to clear the board, by adding cards to the pile at the bottom. You do that by following the numbers: you can only add a card that is immediately higher or lower than the one you have. Jokers are wildcards, and trust me: you will need them.
Click to play Crystal Golf Solitaire
Finally, Halloween Tripeaks is a lot similar to the previous game, with a couple of variations: the cards keep a sort of pyramidal shape, and they are hidden, which makes the game a lot more difficult. Luckily, you only have one wildcard, which is outside the deck and you can use at will.
Click to play Halloween Tripeaks
Yes, we have all played similar games before. But why fix it if it’s not broken?
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