Is there any board game that you WILL NOT, under any circumstances, play with your S/O?...Why? I'd love to hear these stories.

What’s an S/O?

Significant Other

I have a love/hate relationship with Trivial Pursuit. I have won on several occasions, but when he wins he can be an arrogant a**. I have gone to bed angry many times!

@jonsblond What??? You don’t talk shit back? Nothing wrong with a little gloating ;)

@FGS Believe me, I do. I’m just more sensitive than he is. :)

Monopoly, for sure. My ex husband and I couldn’t have people over for that game because he’d go crazy with power and greed to the point of snatching the faux money from other players and making creases. Creasing the faux money and sweeping tiny plastic hotels off the board with grand sweeps of his drunken hands was too intense for company ;)

I can’t stand to play any video games with my husband. I despise losing, and I’m just not as good at video games as him although i was the only one to get a perfect score on jon bon jovi’s dead or alive, on rock band!
Board game-wise, we’re pretty evenly matched. I’m a sore loser though, much moreso than my husband.

@hungryhungryhortence If it makes you feel any better, my dad bribed me with a $5 bill when I was 8 years old or so to sell him a property that would have assured a win for him.

I don’t have a SO. But I hate monopoly!

@dverhey lurve!

In college my bf was waaaaaay too uptight about euchre. I quickly learned that alcohol, him and euchre was a bad mix.

My latest experience was a family event, which included my SO. Chocolate covered coffee beans and competitive dominoe players = Bad family outing. Yikes.

@Snoopy I’ve found that unless evenly matched, board games tend to turn out badly. That’s why my SO and I stick to cribbage, she’s a badass with the cards :)

Not my S/O, but I won’t play monopoly with my brother as he cheats and steals money when he thinks no one is looking. Plus we fight over who gets to be the race car.

@hungryhungryhortence Sounds like a case of “Instant asshole; just add alcohol”

Not really. I have pretty much quit playing any games with him, unless they are pure chance, because he wins everytime in strategy games.

Edit to add: He does so well at Blackjack that he pays our way to Las Vegas whenever we go.

@YARNLADY Can I borrow him…?

Not a problem for my husband and I, but we have friends that we refuse to play cards with. Every time we played Spades or Poker, there was an argument – either between them or directed at us. No more!

the Polish version of Scrabble. She speaks Polish, I don’t. She made a concession last Christmas (when she bought it to me as a present), saying I was allowed to make any word in any of the languages I know, where as she had to make only Polish words.

She still won by about a gazzilion points, because the only word you can make with all those Zs is “gazzilion” (just to give you a clue: Z in the polish scrabble is worth 1 point).