I have recently been playing a number of interesting boardgames, most often Agricola although Le Havre, Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne and Space Hulk have been popular too.
There are some very interesting card games out as well such as Dominion and Race for the Galaxy.
I am looking forward to playing The Great Fire of London and Merchants & Marauders whenever I can get hold of them.
I particularly like Agricola because it isn't very confrontational as a game, obviously there is a winner but you can have fun playing even if you come last. Some games you only win by destroying the other players ability to do anything interesting when playing the game, Risk or Monopoly for example.
Anybody else have any particular favourite boardgame? if so why do you like it?