Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for January 06, 2025

Perhaps she should look for (a) Clue first

Monopoly’s not a very good game, designwise. First of all, players are kicked out while the game still goes on, so if you’re six players then eventually four of you will have to find something else to do. Secondly, often somebody’s in a hopeless situation but it takes a while to FULLY go bankrupt, so you’re forced to go through the motions. Thirdly, there’s little skill involved, since it’s usually clear whether you should buy the property you’ve landed on. Fourth—and this isn’t the game’s fault—there are always a bunch of house rules breaking the balance of the game’s design.

“Board games? Oh, we thought those were called “BORED” games."

Scrabble is best.

They are Life.

Taboo for me. I love word games.

Sorry is actually decent if you play by the advanced rules, but there’s been a board game renaissance in the past few decades. I’d be trying some Sagrada, personally.

2 of my granddaughter’s favorites. My father loved Sorry.

Does anyone remember Milles Bornes? We loved that although technically not a board game. Coup fourre’!!!

My MIL always wants to play board games when she comes into town, which I find exquisitely boring. I’m a big girl, I can handle being bored for the sake of politeness, but her husband also is a very bad loser and bad at board games, so it’s not an optimal way to spend an evening.

the European game designers design games where the outcome is not obvious after 5 moves. See for choices. All these games are also available in actual boardgames. My current favourite is Forest Shuffle

“Strate-GO!”

Catan. Ticket to Ride. Carcassonne. Splendor. 7 Wonders. Flamecraft. Wingspan. Dominion.

SO many options!

That’s Life.

Trouble and Sorry are both dumbed-down versions of Parcheesi. My Nana was a cutthroat Parcheesi player – I still have her 1936 boxed game.

Good for you Betty – for trying….

I believe that people who don’t like board games, are the ones who never won when playing them.

we lost the pieces to “Sorry” one year and gave each player a small tub of play-doh to form pieces… Game got renamed to “sorry assassin” because you could destroy/pound/rip-apart the piece before sending it back to start where the person had to re-create their piece to put back on the board. Ended up being so much fun we never use the real pieces anymore.

Tch. Betty, Betty, Betty. Monopoly? Trouble? Sorry? You need to pull out the REAL games. Settlers of Catan. Pandemic. Arboretum. Terraforming Mars. Wingspan. Merchant of Venus. Captain Park’s Imaginary Polar Expedition. Etc. How disappointing.