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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[mrs_redboots]

I do like playing Articulate on Christmas night (it didn't feel like Christmas without, this year), and maybe other similar games, but that's as far as it goes. I'm the only one in my family who neither plays Bridge (okay, that's cards, but still) nor has any interest in learning. My father played chess pretty obsessively until the last year of his life, and was delighted when my then-6-year-old grandson fought him to a draw! Meanwhile he always played with my son-in-law, who has been a ranked player in his time. And my daughter recently posted a lovely lockdown picture of the two boys - now rising 11 and 7 1/2 - playing chess together on the floor! I know the moves of chess but have never had any real interest in playing, much to my father's sorrow!