Saturday discussion post: board games (72/365)

[white_hart]

We have been watching The Queen's Gambit on Netflix, which is very good even if you know as little about chess as I do.

I don't really like any board games (other than possibly Trivial Pursuit). I never find that they manage to hold my interest, and they tend to stifle other conversation. I know lots of people who really enjoy them, though. So tell me, if you like playing board games, what do you enjoy about them? What kinds do you play? Or are you like me and don't like them?

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[joyeuce]

With the 8-year-old I enjoy Uno, Dobble, and Fluxx - simple card games with little to no strategy and some humour. With a group of friends, Articulate, Apples to Apples, and Masquerade (can't find a link - like Articulate, but miming) - humour again, and no strategy, and having to convey your meaning without the obvious. (On that reasoning I ought to enjoy Pictionary, but I don't, because drawing.)

I don't much enjoy strategy games as I'm not very good at them, but there are some simpler ones I will play with my husband (because he doesn't laugh at me for messing up) - Carcassonne, Lost Cities (link is to play online, in case anyone's interested), Jaipur, and Codenames Duet.

[white_hart]

No, I'm not really any good at strategy games, either.

[antisoppist]

I like Articulate but poor youngest is always seen as a handicap for whoever has to be with her because she has less general knowledge than anyone else and her brain makes entirely different connections to the rest of us.