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¿Question #81?
Karlsen: Longest elapsed time spent playing a game (the game itself) in hours and what was the game?

oldhoss: About 5 hours for Axis & Allies, about 4 hours for War of the Ring.
pwilz: I can remember an all-night (midnight - 6:00 am or so) Diplomacy game.
LadyTemy: 8 hours, Epic-style Dominion
oriecat: Oh I really hate it when I see those total time played stats. Oblivion is probably the highest.
tankexmortis: The longest I can verify is 200+ hours spent with Fallout: New Vegas. Anecdotally I've probably spent as much or more time with Morrowind, Magic: the Gathering, and maybe Fallout 3.
Corps_of_Oa: Probably about 3/4 hours with Arkham
beerbear: I have played five hours of Fury of Dracula. Not fun.
resin: Advanced Third Reich - 30 hours (not including breaks)
bcooperok: TI3 -- 10 hours.
jegan22280: 36 Hours on diablo 2
Woelf: In college I played a game of Axis&Allies that lasted five or six continguous hours.
Felimid: 7 1/2 hours. "Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition". I bailed out at that point, and the game finished soon after I left. Demands far more endurance than I can give it.
Blott: Probably one of those games of Monopoly.
Numskull: 13 hours for 7 Ages. 13 of the worst hours of my life.
Hendal: 12 hours, heroscape, we did stop to eat and fo to the bathroom
WatchmanX2000: 56 hours.
p38_Lightning: In one sitting = 16 Europe Engulfed
BobbyChicken: axis and allies revised
Bottlesorter: 8 hours. Talisman. I was younger and drunker then.
DHEK: I think around 8-9 hours. It was Axis & Allies.
Elf__Man: 13 hours. Advanced Civilization.
illy: 6 months. Empire in Arms Full Campaign
maumau: i often play games for hours... mostly computer – Europa Universalis II was the latest (10h, maybe...) :)
Baldric: 36 hours, D&D... LONG time ago ;)
aleo09: it had to be Risk @ 3.5 hrs
FrankLJ: Civ II, trying for 500% (got 577%)!
mrspank: Days and days playing Magic Realm.
ststrat: 46 hours - AH's The Longest Day
greglios: Does roleplaying count? If not it was probably a game of Warhammer, we used to have games that lasted hours and hours, if not days (in total).
bagio99: 14 hours, Monopoly with in-game negociated house rules (!)
Tailuje: Meh, five hours and TI3. Unimpressive.
Dorque: 6 for TI3.
Rozik: 8 TI3
tomski: 14 hours in one session - Civ, 36 hours but split over 3 days - Flat Top
darcyj2: 6 hours...on Diplomacy.
xlorp: Not counting Werewolf, Advanced Civilization with Western Expansion in 14 hours.
brainrob: Probably a game of Civ many moons ago ... can't remember exactly how long.
Helenoftroy: 7 hours LOTR Trilogy Risk
bigbadsteve: i have had some risk games that went on for hours
LemonyFresh: If you count computer games, I played a 16-hour Age of Wonders once. Boardgame, I'm not really sure.
Bandit Ripshawd: I've played SoC for 8 hours straight... but not one game... a series of games.
flyinghogfish: Six hours, playing A Game of Thrones with a slow-playing opponent, we got about five turns in if memory serves...
dankhan: Civ seems to be the most consistent winner here - 17 hours, advanced civ for me - in one sitting with 5 others
melissa: Probably civilisation - about a 7 hour game.
consolewa: It has to be D&D and it has to be longer than I care to admit, or remember for that matter. Ah to be 13 again.
erli: Empire Builder...4 hours of cruelty and hosage
skrutsch: I don't know, probably 8 hours. I can't think of the name of the game. It's one of those civilization building games. You start with a culture and then it progresses each eon.
notquitekarpov: War & Peace (AH) Campaign scenario. Set up over a school holiday twentyfive years ago. Must have lasted about 90 hours. Never again
The Unbeliever: 42
Randy Cox: Civilization: 12 hours
Gecko23: 6+ hours. Risk. What a waste.
Nap16: Diplomacy - 30 hours
bluebehir: Six. Doom: The boardgame. Although I could be wrong
Bearcat89: 40+ hours...Freedom in the Galaxy by SPI...games and marijuana binges should not be mixed.
Magnus the Blue: Republic of Rome, well over 10 hours...
mandj2001: 9 hours playing Age of Mythology once
Lord_Prussian: I'm sure it was probably Civilization and something like 8-10 hours.
2amp: 32, AD&D
rapier1642: 12, Warhammer 40,000
scriptorum: Civilization, about 10 hours.
snoozefest: 50? Titan, with wrong rules
steadym: Shogun. I don't remember, but it was loooooooong...
tragicpoet: Trivial Persuit 3 hours, god I felt dumb
heli: Empires of the Middle Ages -- probably 70 hours
fellonmyhead: Continually? Must be Blood Royale which went on for ten hours and we stopped halfway. I have in the past played games over weeks but there were breaks inbetween sessions.
Cavedog_pdx: I played a couple of grand campaign games of War&Peace back in college with my friend John. I think we spend 25-30 hours on each.
puffinge: Something like 11 hours for Civilization back in the day.
solove: Monopoly - 3 days
DenverWolf: 4 hours, Empire Builder
AlorielLelyn: Europa Universalis - Probably about 200 hours or more - not continuous mind you.
dakarp: Our Runequest campaign went on for many evenings over a perious of years--I have not idea how long we spent playing.
shippert: Aside from role-playing games, we were trapped in a horrendous game called "Plunder" (from Thomson Brothers) for six hours.
Ryno8: Axis and Allies... Elapsed: 15+ hrs. Over 8 days
UhhhClem: I think it was a 14-hour game of 1829.
onky: 8 hours, Twilight Imperium
Chris__M: Must be hours and hours, and Diplomacy
Nightmare: Space Marine - probably more than 15 hours (over a couple of days)
Belash: 6 - Axis & Allies
RyanMC: Risk, when I was like 6, and we were playing wrong...
Blackwind: 9 hours, Civ
DangerMouse: 10 hours, GreyHawk: Wars - Talk about time between turns and I was the first guy eliminated!
louiseh: 8 hours, Civilization.
sdownin: 10 hours for Advanced Civ.
Thlayli: I think it was around 10 hours, Diplomacy
djlg: 47 hours approximately... give or take a day. 7 Ages.
darthcliff: 10 hours. Axis and Allies
jaredh: Not counting D&D campaigns, 14 hours on Civilization.
BobDodgerBlue: 80 hours or so, Empires in Arms
Ludocrazy: 7 hours. An D&D campaign
Linnaeus: Probably some humungous game of Car Wars when I was a teenager (I assume we're only talking boardgames here - I've played some marathon role-playing sessions).
netfilterz: TI3, 7 straight hours...
Jim_P: Approximately 175 hours... Empire In Arms
fizzix: 11 hours playing MTG til the sun came up
Gelatinous Goo: prolly a 6hr Risk back in the day
Fa�l: About 23h for an AD&D session I was mastering
mrbeankc: Played the Longest Day and took two days
Eric Haas: 13 hours - Civilization
manowarplayer: KIngmaker 8 hours.
Nomadik: Talisman six hours
WonderCinz: 14, Civilization.
Flyspeck23: 60+ hours. Mighty Empires (battles fought with WHFB).
sumo: About 8 hours, Civ.
seppo21: Wow, I hate to think of the amount of time I've spent playing some video games. As for board games, I think my first game of Axis and Allies went for 8+ hours.
pernishus: 6 hrs,Funkenschlag
CDRodeffer: Excluding role-playing games? I once played Magistratvm (a piecepack game) that lasted five hours.
gashlycrumb: 12 hours of Civ
ejmowrer: Battletech.... about 20 hours or so.
klarkinhistrep: 7, Republic of Rome
skelebone: I think my longest time for a game was 4 hours to a grueling game of Risk 2210 with slow players.
nix342: 14 hours, Advanced Civilization
Scott Tepper: 13 hours: Tenjo
Sky Knight X: 30 hours. Game = 7 Ages.
dietevil: Diplomacy, and I think it was over 12 hours
AnakinOU: Just one game? Do C(omputer)RPGs count?
rochs77: Over 14 hours, Axis and Allies
Mike A: 6 hours. Risk. Curse that game.
Zambogirl: War of the Ring, didn't log the actual time played
ValJor: Civ. Five hours. We did one age... Pretty sad...
BaSL: 10h, A&A
Vince Londini: At one sitting? Fuedal for nearly 5 hours, not counting RPGs
chaddyboy_2000: Probably a 5 hour game of Monopoly.
Spielfreak: 10 hours, Adv. Civilization
Geosphere: RPG campaign. 1000?
WasQ: 9 hours, twilight imperium of course!
Jon_1066: About 12 hours - Europe Engulfed
MisterCranky: Several 12-hourish sessions of M:tG back in the day
litho: 2 hours, Euphrates & Tigris
gnomehome: 16 hours - Warhammer Fantasy Battle (4 player - 8.000 points)
Septic: oh man, a couple of hundred hours in a multi-player game of GDW's Operation Crusader
Fawkes: 5 years, Magic: the Gathering. The metagame never sleeps.
Friendless: 20 hours, Empires in Arms. We'd only just started
CortexBomb: Very hard to pinpoint. Doubtless Shadowrun, and probably 10+ hours?
bbenston: 2 days, Adv Civ
peterk: 5, HotW
ynnen: Probably about 12 hours playing a single game of Titan back in college. Would have taken longer if we didn't have to move dorm rooms.
PghArch: Surely Civilization (discounting rpgs). No idea how many hours.
jttm: 7 hours. Monopoly (I'm ashamed to say)
janiera: 8 hours... 5 player Iron Dragon
darquil: 4 hours; 2-player Entdecker
ping9x: Civilization for 10 hours. Unless you count multiple games of Magic: The Gathering, then it's probably 20 or so hours.
Aldie: 10 hours - Advanced Civilization.
Shakar: 8-9 hours, Advanced Civilisation.