12-14-2020, 10:27 AM
I love Uno, but you need four people. Same for Parcheesi and Sorry, and I enjoy them. Mille Bornes is a good one too, and you can play with two. But if anyone is fixated on winning, it ruins everything. (That was always my wife's cousin's husband when we played games at Christmas; he's also a mysogynist, so losing to a woman was even worse. We stopped playing games when he was around.) My in-laws like Bananagrams, but they won't play with me any more because I usually win, I think due to a bigger vocabulary. They love Mexican Train dominoes, which I'm not wild about; I think regular dominoes is better.
My brother and I played games a lot when we were kids. Besides the ones already mentioned, I particularly liked Yatzee, Stratego, and Life. (FYI, they redesigned Life a few years ago and ruined it, so I got an old one on eBay. It's a great vacation game.)
I wanted to learn chess, but my brother was really good at it, and my dad had no patience to play with me, so I never really did. But I think maybe chess requires the initiation of losing many, many games before you win, and I would never have stuck with that. I think I prefer board games with less skill and more luck; otherwise you need to seek out players at your level to have fun.
My brother and I played games a lot when we were kids. Besides the ones already mentioned, I particularly liked Yatzee, Stratego, and Life. (FYI, they redesigned Life a few years ago and ruined it, so I got an old one on eBay. It's a great vacation game.)
I wanted to learn chess, but my brother was really good at it, and my dad had no patience to play with me, so I never really did. But I think maybe chess requires the initiation of losing many, many games before you win, and I would never have stuck with that. I think I prefer board games with less skill and more luck; otherwise you need to seek out players at your level to have fun.
the hands that guide me are invisible