Sightless said:
I was playing with the idea of getting some board games in to play at work, but lunch breaks are scattered and too short for most games, and people are just busy and not interested, which kind of sucks. I thought I might start by just laying out a chess board and seeing what results.
You might try some smaller games, especially if you can get just one person interested to try. When others see you playing, I've found it's almost impossible for people not to check out what you are doing.
Jaipur is a good little two player game, cashing in sets of cards for points but with a nice theme and good artwork.
Love Letter is a simple game of deduction which goes up to four players, can be explained in under a minute and rounds typically take just a couple of minutes. A full game can go 15-30 minutes if different people keep winning rounds, but it can always be cut short.
Coup is an amazing game of lying and bluffing, giving each person two role cards with special abilities face down, so no one else knows what they are. On your turn you declare one of the roles and enact its power, but you can lie about it! Someone can call you on it and if they are right, you discard one of your cards. If they were wrong, they lose a card. Last person standing wins.
For a couple of games you can solo in the event no one does want to play, also small box, are Space Hulk: Death Angel, which I've described earlier in this thread, and Samurai Spirit, which loosely recreates the movie Seven Samurai using cards and a little cardboard village. Neither of these are particularly short though, now that I think about it.
that's really awesome of you. I won't be able to try it out until Sunday, but I can't wait to give it a go.
