7 + 1 board games to take a break from the screens
Board games provide endless fun with plenty of laughter, but also knowledge, while their wide variety covers even the most demanding tastes.
The circumstances in recent times have brought most families closer together and have “forced” us to bring back to the forefront beautiful activities such as board games, making the hours at home take on a different dimension.
So it’s time to move away from the blue light of the screen and choose one of the 7+1 legendary board games below that we recommend to spend constructive time relaxing away from the screens.
Scrabble
Its shocking simplicity makes many underestimate it: In Scrabble, your sole mission is to compose words, based on the letters you have in your possession. In this blackjack of spelling and syntax, however, you can make up your own rules: You can play with slang words, with slang words, with gringlish. The classic Scrabble format is there for you to do whatever your appetite and imagination take you.
Pictionary/Παντομίμα
All you need is markers and paper. You also need a minimum of drawing skills and a sick imagination to define on the board what you want to describe. You can play thematic pictionary (for example, with movie titles or band names) or with simple words. You can make it even more interesting if you play with your partner and establish penalties and prizes for whoever loses or finds the term you have drawn. If painting isn’t your forte, you can use your hands, feet, and any other expressive ability you have besides speech by pantomiming. In any case, the only thing that’s certain is that extreme reactions will be generated and the living room will turn into an impromptu party.
Palermo: The Great Purge
You don’t need board games with lots of accessories and gadgets to have a good time in the living room, just the ‘CSI’ of board games, ‘Palermo’ is enough to set fire to a typical Monday night. The premise of the game is simple: In Palermo, brutal crimes are happening and someone is the murderer. The cards show the truth, but they can also hide a series of bluffs. When night falls in Palermo, the murderer could even be YOU. And fool them all. You can of course play it with simple decks of cards using the cards with the “faces” to represent the murderers and the policeman.
Monopoly
The modern version of Monopoly is called ‘Monopoly: Top Electronic Banking’, it features an electronic touch machine and bank cards. The disadvantage that Monopoly usually has is its gigantic duration until a winner is found, but in the era of #stayathome these are fine print. The board game that challenges you to turn into a tycoon by counting wads of fake dollars and conquering the American dream by putting your opponents in jail, never disappoints. Clearance.
Hotel
Become a luxury hotel tycoon! Build hotels and welcome your guests, hoping they stay long enough to go bankrupt when it’s time to pay the bill. The last player standing in the game is the winner!
We’re talking about Monopoly, but a Monopoly that you can build yourself piece by piece, perfect, just perfect. Slowly and methodically you build your hotel complex, you see others gasping for breath whenever they pass by your area or you look around in desperation because you want to grab the President hotel because it’s called the President and it’s the key investment to be the winner. Don’t be so sure about your investment moves, maybe the best winning strategy is the Boomerang hotel. A game with a lot of strategy, luck but also a lot of fights.
Cluedo
The timeless! The game that we have all played at some point with friends. It is this game that everyone will test their spying skills. It is played with 2-6 players and is essentially based on luck and strategy. Its premise is simple. Millionaire Samuel Black was murdered in his mansion. It is based on three questions: Who did it? In which room in the mansion? With which weapon? You have to choose between some options, as there are six suspects, as well as weapons, but nine rooms. The player who answers these three questions correctly and closes the case file is the winner. We love it because although it sounds simple, we never got tired of it.
Taboo
Dinnn! You said the forbidden word. Taboo was released in 1989 and is a word guessing game. The player must describe the word they see on the card, but without mentioning the other 5 words listed below because they will lose. The ultimate practice to develop fluency by saying whatever comes to mind in a short period of time so that their team can find the word. The more imagination there is at the table, the more strange words will be heard!
Bonus: UΝΟ
The timeless and always beloved game with colored cards is always in… fashion.
UNO was and remains one of the favorite board games of young and old, since it not only sharpens our memory, but its simplest version (from 6) is also very easily transported in luggage for endless fun everywhere! The title of the winner depends on the one who will be left without cards at the end.
So choose a board game for today and put it on your schedule!
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