I am not bothered / not keen on board games and I leave R to play them with the kids. That said there are some other board-game-adjacent things that I enjoy, like Timeline. This is a card game you lay out on a table or biggish space, each player starting off with 4 or 5 cards plus one in the middle to start everyone going. The cards each have events on them, like ‘Pompeii erupts’ or ‘Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone’ and you have to put one of the cards in your hand either earlier or later than other cards on the table (the year / answer is on the back of the card). So it starts off easy, and there are some cards that are always easy (eg dinosaurs are basically earlier than almost anything else in the deck). But then it gets to be a case of remembering or working out, did Jane Austen write Pride & Prejudice before or after the Taj Mahal was built? That sort of thing. You may happen to know the century that the Taj Mahal was built, which makes it easy, but what about if you had the year when the Brighton Pavilion was built, instead?