Ok all this talk about boardgames CANT go without mentioning Risk!! What a game, really. Simple yet subtle in it's own fashion. Remember all the comments made towards the guy who picked the Pink army? How about the guy who would get knocked out early on..Inadvertently it was always the friend who took it personally. Hey, the one iron rule of RIsk is no one can play it without getting pissed off!
And those fickle dice!! Mass your superior army on your friends (in this case mortal enemy) border only to roll a point short of his each time! Aughhhh! While pretty lacking in depth and strategy I vote still a great game...And then theres "Stratego"....