Question of the week: The Board Game Edition!
It’s time for Question of the Week, which is designed to inspire interesting discussion of enjoyable topics.
This week’s question: what is the board game that you have been playing the longest? Board games have many advantages in the modern age – they don’t require electricity, don’t need to be charged, and they also have a pleasingly tactile feel that you just don’t get from tapping a screen. And sometimes you learn a game when you’re a kid and it sticks with you ever since.
For myself, I think the board game I have been playing the longest is chess. I first learned to play when I was ten, and have been playing on and off ever since. I recently discovered Chess.com, and I like its large supply of chess puzzles, which are kind of bite-size chess when I don’t have time to play a full game, which is most of the time.
-JM
I no longer play the same board games I did as a kid, so of the ones I now play with friends, I’ve played I think Arkham Horror and Quacks of Quedlinburg [sic] the most. Both are fun, though Arkham Horror we’ve won all of two times.
Checkers. Deceptively easy to learn.