Do people still really play board games at home? (not chess or checkers)?

(not chess or checkers) When seeing a commercial of people all excited playing a new board game, I wonder to myself. Who still does that? Asked by LouLou 47 months ago Similar questions: people play board games home chess checkers Games & Leisure.

Similar questions: people play board games home chess checkers.

We do! Have a ball playing different board games with the grandkids! Clue Mousetrap Chinese checkers Connect 4 (I guess that's not really a board game, since it is vertical...) Braniac I know there are others.

We have enormously good times with them and, in fact, have set up a table in the family room precisely for board games and card games. It's call a card table! Imagine that... But right now, the card game "Hand and Foot" has the lead as my eleven year old granddaughter has learned to beat the odds and somehow beat me MOST of the time.

How she does it I have not yet figured out. After all, I'm the one who shuffles the cards! .

Definitely! My girlfriend and I will break out a board game every now and again just because it's an alternative to the same old stuff on TV. When we were at her parent's place for x-mas, we actually ended up playing two old games that they had in the closet (Mall Madness and Candy Land) while waiting for dinner.My friends and I even played a few board games in college.

With a little creativity, it's pretty easy to turn one into a drinking game ;-) .

Yes, our family plays board games. Not on a weekly basis, but whenever we get together as a family and are bored. Especially on holiday’s in which we can’t go out.

But, even when we get together and invite each other over for dinner we sometimes play board games. Especially when we don’t like what is on TV or find a movie we can agree to watch together... then we pull out the board games. This happens about five times a year for our family.

Although this last year I have called my kids to ask them to dinner and a game night. To tell you the truth I enjoy it more than watching tv or movies, because it is a great way to keep connected and to find out what is going on with each other. It also validates OUR LIVES, rather than just... some tv star, movie star or sports star.

We get to be the STARS for each other. My children are grown now and married ages 25 and 26. They don’t have children yet, (so things might change) but we still play board games.

I/We like to play a great game called, "Apples to Apples". Because it gets us all going by: thinking, challenging each other, challenging the judge . .. Of course, and having fun.

I/We like the more "group involvement games" than the "sit and wait for your turn" games. It is more interactive/competitive but fun too! At Thanksgiving, I have everyone over from both my husband’s extened family and my extended family.

We get very bored and cramped with each other after eating all day, with no where to go, and nothing to do. One of the best things I started about six years ago is a Family Bingo Game! It started out with just using left over Halloween candy for the kids as prizes, (As one year I had too much candy left over, so I wrapped it into brown lunch sacks as surprise prizes for bingo - just to get rid of it).

Now, Thanksgiving Family Bingo Night, (which is played on the Friday after Thanksgiving) has become a regular great night of Family Bingo with great prizes... that I pick up for both men and women throughout the year.. . Or gifts that have been given to me and I don’t need or want. This year some of the gifts were: worth $20.So everyone gets a prize and likes to play until they win at least one Bingo!

It’s a great way to give gifts to those you can’t spend Birthday gifts for throughout the year. And, we love the competition for the better prizes... people really want to win.(Just don’t use a gift for bingo that an invited family member has given you and you didn’t need or want as a gift! - Secretly I buy gifts that I know family members men and woman would like and this says to them, "I love you" or "Happy Birthday" etc. ) Most guests find their gift before Bingo and play very hard to win it!

Ha ha! Still it can get very competitive: as I try and find gifts that everyone needs and wants but does not buy for themselves. We have made specific rules about winning and how you earn your prizes and it is a lot of fun!

In our family we play until everyone wins at least once, if they win a second time before others have won once, then they have to take a token gift... usually left over Halloween candy in a brown lunch sack! Still not a bad prize for a second or third win at family bingo! I always make sure there is a great prize for each person who has been invited to Thanksgiving with a few extras... just in case.

I don’t know if Bingo is a board game, but we still have fun playing board games in our family, because it is about family connection, interaction, and bonding relationships that still need our loving validation and some fun! Sometimes you just have to breakout of the box, .... and play an old fashioned box game! Sources: my daugher in law who brought the game "Apples to Apples" to dinner one night.

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Believe it or not My friends and I were getting together a few years ago to play Cranium on a fairly regular basis. We had a great time. My partner, our youngest son and I have played cards games on numerous occasions such as UNO, Phase 10, etc.I personally love playing Scrabble too but no one will play that with me around here.

Maybe for my birthday this year I will get the old gang to come play Cranium and other board games. I don't own this but I think it would be fun to play. Sources: boardgames.com/thbogaved.html .

Yes, people do. Even though you can play everything online these days, from Monopoly to Backgammon to Scrabble, (and it makes a lot of the game go faster when you do), there is nothing that compares with competition in the same room, head to head, along with real voice conversation. No, it isn't the idiotic frenzy of smiling faces shown in the commercials.In our family, it's just another place for family dynamics to shine through.

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