I particularly like this game because the competition is against the board, not against the other players. It is a very social game, in that you don't close yourself off from the other players (an extreme version of that phenomena would be poker, where you want to not have any tells whatsoever). The table talk and group strategies of LOTR appeal to me.
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I particularly like this game because the competition is against the board, not against the other players. It is a very social game, in that you don't close yourself off from the other players (an extreme version of that phenomena would be poker, where you want to not have any tells whatsoever). The table talk and group strategies of LOTR appeal to me.