I’m not a huge fan of playing games, but I do like some board games.
Probably my top favorite is Connect Four.
I will shamelessly tell you that I like this one because I am really good at it. Whatever spacial/visual skills it requires match up very nicely with the way my brain works.
Mr. FG actually will not even play this one with me anymore because I win too much. Heh.
The other board games I enjoy are:
- Chinese checkers (the spatial/visual aspect of this game appeals to me)
- Scrabble (because I love words)
- Taboo (again, word-related)
- Pictionary (because it can be so funny)
- Yahtzee
I don’t like games that
- have oodles of complicated rules to learn
- go on forever (Monopoly!)
- feel pointless (The Game of Life)
- don’t rely on skill at all (I want to have some say in how things go!)
What’s your favorite board game?
And I’m also curious what games you don’t like!
How funny you mention Connect Four. I am a speech therapist and use a lot of games in my work. Thi is my favorite one! I never get sick of it and love it because all ages like it too.
Personally, I love scrabble, taboo, scatagories, Pictionary, ticket to ride, but our all time family favorite is sequence.
I loathe monopoly or long games with complicated directions.
Chess. My middle son got REALLY into chess a few months ago and badgered everyone to play all the time. I hadn’t played since I was a kid and he basically had to re-teach me the game, but I found I actually enjoyed it. If I’m given the opportunity to play without the distraction of children crawling on me or knocking the board over, which honestly doesn’t happen often. I like the mental challenge.
Nice list, thanks
Yahtzee, Monopoly, Battleship
I like Scrabble and also Upwords. Not a board game but similar to one is Bananagrams. I really disliked the luck based games when my child was small, Candyland, Chutes & Ladders, etc.
Even the “dumbest” game can spark conversation with the right people, and help pass time withe the wrong people!
We were big on cards growing up. Our Rummys ran into thousands. My kids here &at school loved Uno. I’m glad I am not the only 1 who dislikes Monopoly
My favorite game is Blockus. I love the trigon version the best. It is a spacial-perceptual game and I haven’t found anything else like it!
I like games like Seven Wonders, Dominion, Bonanza, Alhambra, Catan… Maybe mostly nerdy strategy games?? During quarantine I actually purchased the online version of Catan to play with my dad, brother, and husband. Every couple of weeks we get out multiple devices to play the game on one and have a group video chat going on the other. It has been a fun way to do something “together”.
I love backgammon! I prefer to play with a person, but I spend way too much time playing it on my IPad!
I enjoy Sorry too. I started playing it with my children since they were five or six. They are grown now, but we still play sometimes.
Good List:
Scattergories
Five Second Rule
Sequence
Wise and Otherwise
Bad List:
Catan
Dominion
Risk
Monopoly
Axis and Allies
Etc.
Boggle! Anyone who likes word games should check out Boggle.
Hmmm
I like all board games but we are not a family who can play together AT ALL!
I’m super competitive and so is my eldest sone, we have been known to work together to eliminate others and then fight it out between ourselves. My youngest son is such a bad loser no one ever wants to play with him and my husband doesn’t have a competitive bone in his body so he’s a bit boring to play with.
My dad is super competitive too and would never let me win even as a toddler so I had to be competitive – I’m an only child too so I never stood a chance!!! 😂😂
You need to join a board game club or something! Heh.
Boggle is my favorite. But, like you, no one will play with me because I win. I will ALWAYS choose word games, but there are few in my family who will play with me.
We also love Yahtzee, Sequence, Rummikub, Skip-Bo, Phase 10, Dutch Blitz, Codenames, and a specific Dutch game called “Pegs and Jokers” or “Heartland”, which is very hard to find. I had to buy our set off Etsy!
I grew up in a game-playing family, and we have played lots with our kids. My kids enjoy the long and very strategic games of Pandemic, Settlers, etc. I absolutely loathe (not too strong of a word!) them–along with Life, Monopoly, Clue, Battleship, etc.–but I’m always game to sit around the table and chat while they play!
I love Pandemic, because it’s a cooperative game where either everybody wins or everybody loses, but I haven’t been able to play it, well, since the pandemic started 😮 . I also really enjoy Splendor, in part because I usually win. My favorite classic game is probably Scrabble.