Which is the most fascinating game that you have ever played?

Chess , its the only game I ever cared to play .
=)

Competitive bridge.

Spades. Oh, and Candy Crush Saga!

Truth. Gets very interesting after 2 minutes, after finding out the things your friends have done.

Dungeons and Dragons with a professional science fiction/fantasy author as the GM.

For me it has to be Chess.

Quelf.

Life.

And I’m not talking about the board game.

By the way, welcome to Fluther, @happycamp

Chess is the perfect game, though it will not appeal to everyone. It is the best game to improve one’s logic and intellectual skills.

Backgammon. I play it obsessively. People tend to dismiss backgammon too quickly as a mere chance-based dice race because they never learn to use the doubling cube. In truth it is a complex and exciting game that requires a lot of quick math to play expertly.

Im going to say Sims because… I feel like it

Charades. My mind doesn’t want to play chess. It isn’t smart enough.

Shadowrun, at least with a good GM.

Contract bridge and nine men’s morris.

AD&D.

And Risk.

Kiss Cuddle or Torture.
Played on the streets by kids of all ages, girls chase boys & vice versa. Upon catching your “victim” you ask them which option they’d prefer, as given in the name of the game.
I used to get caught on purpose…obviously.

I don’t think I would call it fasinating, but I really like playing the card game Euchre (mostly played by peope in western NY and MI) and also the card game Canasta.

Pictionary is a lot of fun with friends.

I’ve heard Apples to Apples is a fun game, but I have never played it.

Certain group events in Geocaching combine physical and mental challenges – and are quite exciting. All your senses are used.

Chutes and Ladders

Simple. Non-elegant. Mindless.

Kind of like me….

RISK! I love dominating the world.

Well if we don,t include video games in this, which are my favorite, I’d have to go for Monopoly. Although more than half of the charm of this game is hanging out with friends all night long, eating pizza, drinking beer and messing around as we play.

@Symbeline You wrote: “more than half of the charm of this game is hanging out with friends all night long, eating pizza, drinking beer and messing around as we play.”

That sounds exactly like an overnight Geocaching event. I love it.

I had to look that up, but wow, sounds cool. So I don’t understand the whole thing yet, but what are the chances of anyone finding the containers? or is that why hence all the beer and pizza? :D

The challenges can be as easy or as hard as you like. This particular group likes to do events that last a weekend . They invite about 50–60 total strangers – all using their avatar names.
The only instructions ane to be at a certain GPS coordinate in the middle of nowhere (about 70 miles from my home) at a certain time 6:00 PM, have enough batteries to power a flashlight 8 hours, and dress so you can spend the night outdoors.

The first one I went to they had food on a grill for us to eat and drink and at 10PM (in mid-October!) the guy walked us out to the edge of the pitch black woods and said “See that reflector over there in the woods? (they were Firetack retroreflectors) You should walk from reflector to reflector. If the reflector is on a tree that is not a pine, there is a clue. Two vertical reflectors means you are going the wrong way. Two horizontal reflectors will lead you home and you are out. See you in the morning.”
The group kept splitting and splitting in to smaller and smaller parties. until I ended up with one woman and we decided no matter what we would not split. We found the box but it was padlocked with a combination lock. She figured out the clues and got it. The guy does it every year. It is my ‘me’ time.
Oh and did I say it is free? However, we all throw money into a hat to pay for his expenses and as a sign of appreciation.

The normal boxes are hidden so that there is virtually zero chance of someone finding them accidentally. You use your GPS and clues to find them. They are rated with 2 numbers that represent difficulty and terrain. The rating numbers go from 1 to 5. Some are very easy to find, 1. Some are hard, 5. Some have easy terrain 1, and some have terrain that require special equipment (scuba equipment, climbing or rappelling gear, etc) and can kill you, 5. Beginners start out with 1,1 something wheel-chair accessible and easy to find. I’ve done 3, #5 terrain caches and they were all memorable life experiences.

I will bet you there are at least 3 caches hidden within 2 miles of where you are right now.

@LuckyGuy – what’s the most interesting prize you’ve found, and what cool things have you left behind?

Playing a misere hand in 500.

@LuckyGuy Very cool. I’m really tempted to give this a shot. All around the world? Really? That’s messed up, man. But also awesome.

@Seek_Kolinahr The point of the exercise is to find the cache and sign the logbook. the prize is secondary. In the early days when there were only a few of us we would make the prizes quite generous. I tried to keep it about $5–10 . Now people tend to put in cheap items. My trademark is leaving things from Japan. All kinds of things you would only find there: stationary, soaps, CDs, magazines, Japanese boyscout patches, etc. Culture.
I have boxes hidden in other countries and they have items only from my area. I once had a Japanese guy put a Leatherman Multi-tool in one of Japanese caches because that was the only American made thing he could find.
For the cache that required rappelling off an overhanging cliff face 80 feet above rocks, the prize was just a code number that went to a series made by a guy who is curing the world of phobias.