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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[antisoppist]

I think we started playing board games with the kids because the family atmosphere and the tension between parents was always better with an external framework imposed by the game. It's remained our main family activity in both houses (middle child doesn't watch telly, which is a bonding thing for me and the other two) and I'm a bit sad at the minute that because they are playing board games with their father a lot at the moment, they have stopped wanting to play them with me. But it's a way he's managing to interact with them so yay I guess. Also he likes competitive ones that go on for ever where you gradually destroy everyone like Monopoly and Risk and I like strategy and logic like Cluedo, Ticket to Ride.

One we all like in this house is 7 Wonders. But we also have collaborative games like Pandemic and Mysterium where you have to make associations between images on cards in the same way as the person deciding on them has.

I don't like games where I am the focus of everyone's attention doing something silly. In non-pandemic times we usually have a games day with friends and they always want to play Wink Murder and I just can't and have to do the washing up in that bit.

[white_hart]

I can't actually wink, which makes Wink Murder very tricky!

I suspect I'm just permanently traumatised by family games of Monopoly when I was a child, really.