Best Public Domain Games on BGG - Voting By YOU!

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  @The.FrozenGamer · 9 hours ago

  While there is strategy in Cribbage, there is also tons of luck that prevents the better player from 100% beating up on the inexperienced player. so no need to worry about playing with the person who brought their board.

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• FU

  @FurieRand · 3 hours ago

  this made so much sense, this were the games we grew up with, Poker, Dominoes, Backgammon, Chess, Mentirosa, Canasta, Corazones, etc none of that crokinole been getting into more board games again this year as I only mostly had old ones like Risk, Clue Scrabble and Axis & Allies,  now I've bought a lot of the newer gen ones

• DO

  @douggernaut724 · 7 hours ago

  My buddies and I used to save up our coins and play nickel-dime-quarter poker about once a month when I was a teenager. This was long before Texas Hold'em became a thing. We didn't even know what that was. - - It was so much fun.

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  @robvieira835 · 9 hours ago

  3 vs. 3 at Hearts is a great game. Eight tricks to shoot the moon.  Worked at Western Electric in Reading, PA in the early 1980s and the engineers would play every lunchtime.

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• ID

  @Ideaman · 9 hours ago

  42 is a fun domino game that’s often described as “Spades for Dominoes”

• DA

  @danielgoicoechea3440 · 6 hours ago

  Yessss square “cuadrado” I’ve played that a bunch here in Spain that’s awesome Zee 😮

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  @andrewellis712 · 9 hours ago

  Cribbage isn’t just 2 player btw! There are ways to play with 3 and 4 that are still excellent. There are ways to play with 5 or 6 as well but it’s less optimal

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• BL

  @blueshells50 · 9 hours ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cei6K31ness&amp;t=1580">26:20</a> Checkers also has a ton of variants, brazillian draughts and 10x10 international draughts make it much more strategic

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• KR

  @kristin4463 · 9 hours ago

  I grew up on Spoons. It was a great camping game, and anytime people &nbsp;would have a Poker night it would invariably morph into a Spoons night, instead. I&apos;d love to know how Tom played it, because I&apos;ve never heard of it being played with partners - I didn&apos;t realize there might be variations of the game.

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  @SvenLauwens · 5 hours ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cei6K31ness&amp;t=3503">58:23</a> thanks! Although I don&apos;t know why the stream view was bugged this time. Everyone else didn&apos;t have any issues with the count not updating.

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  @douggernaut724 · 7 hours ago

  I&apos;ve played a lot of these games but wouldn&apos;t want to play most of them again other than Hearts, Poker, Spades and Crokinole. I would like to try Cribbage.

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  @GamesOffTheShelf · 2 hours ago

  In my opinion Spades and Euchre are both better then Hearts.

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