Board Games - Christmas Fun For The Whole Family - Family

Board games seem to flood stores and sites around the Christmas period, or do they? They're always there, but people tend to purchase board games much more at Christmas as they make ideal gifts for your friends and family, but why are they seen as such trusted gifts? The answer lies in the simple fact that board games can be enjoyed again and again, sometimes for years on end. A couple of examples come from my own childhood, actually.

My grandparents had a pair of old board games that would come off the shelves during rainy days or when my younger self had exhausted the other options for fun while visiting them, and those board games had been used by my father and uncle when they too were children.

That's the simple beauty of board games and the honest reason they stick around for so long in homes around the world- once they have been purchased, they can be enjoyed literally for decades. Incidentally, those particular titles I'm getting nostalgic over were the classic Mastermind game and a copy of Scrabble, both of which had stood the test of time through string game play and concepts that hadn't aged.

This is also why titles such as Trivial Pursuits and Monopoly are still so very popular with families as Christmas presents as well as treats on birthdays and suchlike. The methods of play may have evolved a little over the years, and in the case of Trivial Pursuit the questions change on a regular basis, but it is their basic concepts that have kept them alive in the hearts and minds of people everywhere, who will no doubt introduce their own children and grandchildren to them when the time comes.

There are some very special board games available in stores and online for Christmas this year, many of which have the potential to become just as beloved as those two games my grandparents would play regularly with me. There are games to suit all tastes and interests, including games based on movie properties, as in the case of the New Moon board game based on the second film in the Twilight Saga, along with many others besides.

There's a fun new version of the legendary Monopoly game in the form of the Monopoly City Edition, along with titles such as the Bananagrams game, Quirkle, Quiddler, Apples to Apples, The Settlers of Catan, Pictureka and more. Some of these games have the potential to be modern classics, just going to show how much board games are a part of our culture even now in the modern age.

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