Feb/104
Making Board Games Fun Again
There are a lot of adults I know that haven’t found board games enjoyable since they were very young. These are the guys you see with their girlfriends begging them to play Monopoly. A lot of grown men can’t stand board games, and I’d hate to say it, but I’m no different. Having to sit through Monopoly, rolling dice and landing on random spaces while money haphazardly gets passed back and forth between players, well, that just doesn’t sound fun to me.
What I’ve come to realize in recent years is: If you think board games are boring, you’re playing the wrong ones. I, myself, bore easily. It takes a greater level of involvement and strategy to get me interested in a board game. I am not content to play Monopoly, Sorry, or the Game of Life. As a child, I was partial to Clue. However, I find my adult self scoffing at the premise. You’re searching an old mansion for clues to solve a murder. In the end it could turn out that you were trying to solve a murder YOU committed. I don’t know about you, but if I just bludgeoned some poor bastard to death in the ballroom with a candlestick, I wouldn’t be poking around the crime scene trying to figure out who did it. I’d be in Mexico sipping margaritas and trying to figure out how to legally change my name from Professor Plum to something cool like Xander El Durado.
So what game should you play? It just so happens I have a list…
