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Mary Prasad

I started playing games when I was very young, checkers and chess, then other "typical" board/card games: Parcheesi, Mille Bornes, Life, Monopoly, Risk, Sorry, Uno, Pinochle, etc. It was somewhere around college that I was introduced to some of the more "interesting" board games - Titan, Civilization, Talisman. My husband (Ravindra Prasad, aka Snoozefest) and I stumbled upon Spellfire, eventually leading to Magic (which we still play to this day, although we no longer collect it... believe me when I say we know first hand of Magic: the Addiction!). Somewhere along the line we found Settlers and other "Euro-style" board games. Our collection has grown quite a bit since then! If you are interested, I believe my husband has them all cataloged on Board Game Geek (as well as on his Palm, with statistics galore). We really enjoy attending Origins and other gaming conventions (made it to Essen in 2005). It's great to meet so many wonderful people who love games as much as we do.

I like a lot of different games, but tend to stay away from direct confrontation games (e.g. most war games). Some examples of games I enjoy: RPG-style board games (Runebound and expansions, Descent, Warhammer Quest, Magic Realm), abstract strategy (Pueblo, Gipf games, Ingenious, Ys), dexterity (Crokinole, Carabande, Pitch Car Mini - it's just sooo cute!), crayon rail (pretty much the entire Mayfair line, Lunar Rails is my current favorite), ccg (Magic, Middle Earth, Buffy, Netrunner, On the Edge, Harry Potter), tile laying (most Carcassonne games, Wolly Bolly), card (Circus Flocatti, Bohnanza, Gang of Four, Mystery Rummy games, Tichu, Battle Line),
and a bunch of other stuff classified under one or more of economic/auction/civ/political /strategic/area control/bluffing/pickup & delivery (Indonesia, Civilization/Adv Civ, Die Macher, Goa, El Grande, Freya's Folly, Princes of Florence, St. Petersburg, Amen Re, some 18XX, Liar's Dice, Merchant of Venus).