Yes, folks, 'tis the season for love, cheer, gift giving, and
vacation! :bouncy: Pondering what to get your kid, wife, sister, mother, brother for Christmas? How about a good, hearty board game to pass those long winter nights with. Or at least, here in Florida, those long hurricane-force-wind nights.
Once upon a time, when you were shorter and less concerned about carbs, winter meant board games. With several weeks off from school and increasingly inhospitable weather outside, whiling away the hours over Battleship or Payday seemed like a pretty good use of time. Plus, you inevitably got stuck having to hang out with your stupid cousins at holiday get-togethers, and although you couldn�t bludgeon them to death with a candlestick, you could at least accuse them of having done so to Professor Plum in the conservatory.
The Morning News
Well,
The Morning News has created a
really cool list of great board games for this year. Most of them I've never even
heard of before, not to say they aren't good games or anything. The one featured in the picture is called
Ticket to Ride, a game where you have to beat your friends or family by moving your little train around the board. It doesn't sound very appealing at first but here is TMN's much better description:
Ticket to Ride has been racking up kudos ever since its release, even garnering the prestigious �German Game of the Year� award. So what do you care what a bunch of Germans think about board games? Well, Germany is the center of the board-game universe for sociological reasons I don�t even pretend to grok, so being named �German Game of the Year� is like being named �Japanese Inscrutable Hyperkinetic Animated Movie of the Year� or �Canadian� uhhm� Maple Syrup of the Year� or whatever. Anyway. The game board shows a map of the U.S. with cities connected by a web of train routes. Players claim routes by collecting and playing sets of train cards. But a route claimed by one player is unavailable for use by the others, forcing opponents to seek out detours. Ticket to Ride is tense and exciting, but the indirect nature of the competition is perfect for families and friends.
More info on this game can be found
here.
Check out TMN's list if you have the time! Some of those games sound pretty fun...and if all you're doing this Christmas is literally hanging around the Christmas tree, playing a game might be a good alternative to staring at little blinking tree lights all month.
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That looks cool. However, I wish someone would give me Cranium for Xmas. That game is so fun!!