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Originally Posted by Hydrocket
Trivial Pursuit is a classic...
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Nobody wants to play that one with me, I love that game. My niece and I are banned from ever being on the same team again, or that is what my sister said, and going against what she says is, inadvisable.
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Originally Posted by NotaBRG
We play a lot of Cribbage.
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Mom's mother taught me. Great game.
Milles Bornes is good, learned to play in my Freshman HS French class. Uno, Skipbo are also nice change of pace from regular card games. Gin rummy, go fish, all the classics.
You could always play bridge.
My parents taught me to play when I was maybe 12, I was the only one of the kids interested. My parents and grandparents would play each other, I watched and eventually got the idea. Grandma taught me that too. She was brutal. I never beat her at checkers or backgammon, maybe a couple times playing cribbage, not counting the first few when she was teaching me. They would not lose much at bridge either, even when they probably should have, she would pull out a trick or two and win.
Chess, checkers, backgammon all good for strategy. We had a magnetic kit that had a board for chess or checkers, with backgammon on the inside, pieces stayed in place pretty well, so it was good for in the car in the middle of Nevada or Kansas, whatever. Clue and Scrabble are good, as is Monopoly, though not as good in the car, unless the car happens to be a van or something. We had Risk contests that went on for days, again, no good in the car. I like board games because they foment discussion and interaction, or seem to anyway. Trivial Pursuit of course is also good for this
Candyland is good for little kids as a first game. No reading needed.