Carcassonne

For my birthday, some sweetie got me this board game :) Yes, it is an absolutely wonderful game that I've been playing a lot lately. The game doesn't take too long to play with 2 players, and it is really fun as you
use a combination of strategy and tactics to score points by building cities, farms and roads and placing little "meeples" on them. Every turn, you draw tiles and build a big map area which looks different every single game. You can play nicely or you can play competitively, and so far nicely seems to work better.

I've picked up a couple tiny expansions for the game already, most of which just add more unique tiles to the game. Thankfully, the expansions for this game are really cheap!

So if you are looking for a good board game to play with friends, this is a good pick. It doesn't take long at all to learn, and it is a good fun way to spend an evening.