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¿Question #2155?
Colors: How long does the Ideal game take to play?

Narlgoth: Depends on the ideal game.
ocdspectrum: 90-600 minutes.need a high upper bounds for Twilight Imperium IV.
Woelf: I have not played a game called Ideal. Sounds like a dumb name for a game, though.
Nextsaturday: max 60 minutes
wittyar: 27 minutes and 32 seconds
djdragon001: 45 minutes to one hour. Long enough to get in to it, while not taking so long that you feel guilty about the time you spent playing it.
pwilz: 90 minutes
Chris Page: The Ideal manufacturer used to list that on the side of their boxes, though they usually understate things by a factor of two or three.
Zedsdead: Somewhere between 20 and 240 minutes. It depends on what type of game it is.
Frankenfletch: never played it.
projectmatter: around an hour-hour and a half
hyphz: Around 1 hour.
cgund: If you meant small-i ideal, for me it's somewhere between an hour and 90 min. For sure not more than 90 min.
Capt O: hour
zeotter: It takes as long as it does to complete that game.
CharmlessMan77: 90 minutes max
Osiris Ra: between 20 and 90 minutes
aleo09: several days
Keonyn: 1 to 2 hours, or a day or days for the best, most in depth strategy games
DHEK: 1 hour.
Onionking: Four hours
elirlandes: Thirty years.
POvidiusNaso: one hour.
Eric Haas: I've never played the Ideal game, so I wouldn't know.
tdyck: 0.5-2.5 hours
MightyMike: 60-90 minutes
Flummoxx: 1 hour
Nazhuret: impossible to answer. too many variables
Boraxia: 2-3 hours
Greedo: Half hour.
Walsfeo: 45-90 minutes. Or 8 hours.
dmomo: 45 Minutes to 1.5 hours
taragalinas: 12 hours
hemulen: About as long as the Parker game
Embark: It depends on the game. Light games shouldn't be any more than 1/2 hour. Heavy games can go 3 hours or so before getting tedious.
mrbeankc: 4 hours
Shotmagnet: a lifetime, maybe two
jellospike: 90 min, GameID: 4996
defcon311: Shorter than how long it takes in real life.
Deeghter: As long as it takes me to finally win the game ;-)
Helenoftroy: 2-4 hours
brainrob: Which Ideal game?
ekted: 1-2 hours
top_o_class: 1 hour
Favre4MVP: 53 minutes
jll1024: 1 hour
Ozvortex: Where can I buy this Ideal game?
BakeliteTM: I've never played Ideal.
angrykane: 60 minutes tops.
Roger Yim: one hour
puffinge: 1 hour
ssmooth: Which Ideal game?
skrutsch: It really depends.
e.c.r.: 45 minutes
RandallPeek: Which Ideal game? They made so many.
Regault: As long as I have to spare.
Tushratta: 3 hours
bjonenplota: 90 minutes
notquitekarpov: around 3 hours
CharlieWonka: Tough One - as long as it takes if it is the ideal game.
Lord_Prussian: The amount of time you have to play it.
The Unbeliever: 42
sdownin: 90 minutes
Ludocrazy: No idea
BaSL: An ideal Time
Skipthis86: I never played Ideal. so I don't know
Oldstench: 90 minutes
stephensj23: 1 hour with setup
2amp: 30 min
DangerMouse: 1.5 hours
Sceadeau: 1.5 hours that feels like 10 minutes.
chockle: 75 minutes
mandj2001: 30 minutes to an hour
Belash: 1 hour
snoozefest: 60min
gnomehome: It seems the Ideal game is not in the dbase yet...
kennyb: one to two hours
ValJor: I have played 30-minute games that seemed too long and five-hour games that were too short, so for me there is no ideal, although I would refrain from trying Campaign for North Africa for instance.
berserkley: 45 min
pkreynolds: 1 hour.
dakarp: I'll let you know when I've found the ideal game.
Blackwind: which Ideal game?
thoia: Well, the ideal game of Settlers takes about 1.5 to 2 hours, whereas the ideal game of Axis & Allies takes about 6 to 7 hours....see you can't quantify this sort of question.
queequeg: < 1 hour
djlg: Between 5 minutes and 9 days, depending on the setup.
CDRodeffer: Ideal marketed most of their games to play in 45 minutes or less.
Spielfreak: "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." is an Ideal game that takes about an hour to play.
jttm: Its not a question of how long it actually takes, but how long it feels like.
AlorielLelyn: 2 hours, but I do enjoy longer and shorter games as well
skelebone: Long enough the break the toy.
chaddyboy_2000: Ideal produced several games. Which one are you talking about?
CortexBomb: There is no limit set in stone. There are games that last 20 minutes that feel too long, and games that last 4 hours that seem too short
Colors: Anywhere from 1 hour to 3 hours depending on the game. The sweet spot for me is an hour and a half.