Guillotine is a card game but is quick to pick up, quick to play, and very fun. Some of the german-style board games just take too long sometimes (an hour or more, not including setting up all the hundreds of pieces and explaining the hundreds of rules...)
- Shirley Wu
RISK, I agree. Not the rubbish modern version, though. Settlers is good too but disappointingly non-violent... ;)
- Euan
Puerto Rico is my current favorite. Settlers of Catan (w/Seafarers and Cities & Knights) also rocks.
- Don MacAskill
Settlers of Catan! I was "forced" by a friend to learn it on an original German version. I was so lost at first. Then hooked and avid. Then burnt out. Now it's fun again and a classic that my kids always want to play too.
- Micah Wittman