B Traven said:

Y'all have mentioned the classic bangers here....

There was a game back in the day that was some super cracked-out version of Risk. It was called Supremacy. There was some kinda stock market ticker that would move based on different events, and you could nuke each other and then place mushroom clouds on certain spots that would make them uninhabitable.

Carcassonne is cool, I think the same people did Settlers of Catan.

I keep meaning to get more into Chess 960. Once upon a time, I geeked out on learning chess openings and all that. It definitely gives me an advantage when playing less experienced players, but my lack of interest in continued memorization definitely gives me a disadvantage when uo against more serious players. So, Chess 960 was devised by Bobby Fisher because he didn't like the idea of chess just being one giant puzzle that you can just memorize to dunk on less experienced players, or just brute-force with computing. I can't remember the exact rules, but the gist of it is basically that the pieces on the back rank are randomly placed. Both players get the same setup, but neither knows what it will be until they set up the board. The idea being, regardless of experience level, both players have to actually think.

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