Do you play board games as a family or can this not compete in today's technology saturated entertainment market?

NEVER let me be the bank. When playing Monopoly.

The other night I played scrabble with 3 friends. I was winning until I decided to help the person behind by suggesting a word “QUAG” which would fit on a triple word score. I didn’t count how many points it would give him, but it ended up putting him in first place. I tried to regain the ground but ended up losing by 1 point :p. Silly me.

Also managed to give myself a headache because at the end of the game I had only two letters AU and spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out where to stick them (to win the game). I could only place one down in the end.

I have an awesome winning strategy in Monopoly (it’s the Pauper’s Gambit—basically you buy the low-rent properties just after Go and build hotels on all of them—I’ll do ridiculous things like offer Broadway and $5000 to get $50 properties) wins probably 75% of the time.

Settlers of Catan I usually lose to the Epic City Builder that Mrs. Grumpyfish is.

Only when visiting my parents They’re board-game-crazy. We usually play things like Pictionary, Boggle, Outburst and other loud things.

Monopoly bores me to sleep.

Yeah heavy duty rewrite, answers speak for themselves though still ring true.

Go is our latest interest. We picked up a board and pieces in Japan and got a crash course on how to play. So far we’ve managed to keep learning and spread it to at least three friends and it looks like a fourth will succumb soon.

We loved Scrabble. I’d usually win in the English version and Meg would kick my butt in French. It was great vocabulary help for us both.

I love board games. Oh man. I get really competitive.
More competitive than when I played sports in school.
I have to win, and I’m a sore loser when I don’t. Some of my favorites are Cranium, Scattergories and True Colors.
When I visit my parents, I play with them and some friends. Unfortunately, I never get to play where I live because I don’t have anyone to play with. I love card games too. No one to play with. ::sighs::

My friends no longer want to play (a game similar to) Trivial Pursuit with me because I always win :(

@Vunessuh I’m so gonna kick your ass when we meet.

i would love nothing more than to be at home playing monopoly or LIFE with my mom and dad and brothers. unfortunately, in my life, i doubt if this will ever happen again. my parents are divorced and us 3 siblings live in 3 different timezones. it makes me sad that families that can, usually don’t.

Scattergories and Trivial Pursuit are our family favorites. Our sons are on the scholastic bowl team at their high school, so it can get quite competitive.

Our daugter is six, so of course we have Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders. Uno is another favorite!

I think board games can definitely compete with video games, but there is nothing wrong with playing a little Mario Kart with the children. ;)

Actually we just went to (almost) TV-free during the week. One night we are allowing it. And on weekends. At least it’s a start. We have been playing board games this week. Mostly Candy Land since the kid is so young. It’s fun, a good way to talk about the day (while playing) and educational for him. It also gets us all away from technology, which we are completely addicted to. I really look forward to playing more adult games, though.

@jonsblond omg candyland!!!!! that game is unreal. when i was like 6 i was playing my grandpa at it and he tried to cheat by using one of the trees as a bridge to skip ahead like 20 spaces. even at that age i thought it was hilarious. my family still laughs about it.

I love playing board games with my husband! I can’t wait until our children are old enough, but we do play memory card games with the 2.5 year old. We have a collection of board games…from Battleship, a few types of Monopoly, and various others. It’s good, cheap fun.

I am an avid gamer, but i still love board/card games. My all time favorite games being: Settlers of Catan, and Set.

Yes I love board games, just not with my family. My family sucks on the social side of things of late so I havn’t played any boardgames with them since I was 9. But when I’m not around the family, yeah my friends and I play chess, checkers, Connect Four(im a beast at that game) Uno, and card games like Speed and B.S. Just today a bunch of my friends had a Uno match in class, after our CST’s were done we had alot of time to kill. Board games are on a different level than video games, they give an unmatched experience, but I’m still a gamer too, always gotta have the games ;)

I get my a$$ kicked at chess on a regular basis.

We don’t play often, but my family loves Monopoly, Pictionary, Boggle, Skippo, and Trivial Pursuit.
I used to play Pitch (a card game) with my Dad, and I miss not having anyone around who knows how to play.

Everyone I know will play Scrabble.

Playing board games together is great; we did it all of the time when my kids were growing up. Families miss so much by putting TVs and computers in their kids’ rooms.

Risk and Settlers of Catan with friends, Apples to Apples with family.

Absolutely. We don’t play as much because everyone’s into the serious end of school now, but our favourite games were Game of Life and Monopoly. We also have a LOTR version of Risk that cost a lot of money for a boardgame, but that has ALWAYS ended with someone in tears after the first three rounds because it’s so freaking boring :D

Monopoly and this fun game called Last Word, We gamble a lot too xD
Poker, Blackjack, Remi, Old Maid.
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