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My husband and I love to play games. We much prefer to stay home and play games and talk than go see a movie where we just sit next to each other and not talk (something my MIL doesn't seem to understand--she told my hubby that she thinks we are going to get a divorce because we don't go out together...anyhow...)
Our current game of choice is backgammon. I highly suggest it. We will play the best out of 3 or 5 games, but sometimes we just keep playing and forget who has won more. It is nice because it is an easy game to talk over (unlike the wordgames like Scrabble, Bananagrams, Boggle. We like all those games, but you spend most of your time concentrating on your next word instead talking). It also goes pretty quick, so we can still fit in a run of three even when we are tired.
Before backgammon, we played a lot of cribbage. We started a running total--I taped a piece of paper to the back of the board and made a tally for every win. This is something my grandparents did for over 30 years!
When we were first dating, we played Trivial Pursuit, but I am really, really bad at it, so we stopped quite awhile ago. But it's another idea.
To take you off the beaten path a bit....there are some really neat games out there if you care to stroll through your local game shop. (Besides the nice basic scrabble types).
Games like redneck rampage (it's kinda like the redneck version of Life), last night on earth (one of you plays the zombies and one the humans lol), not to mention a plethora of historical games.
There are even a number of games out there where you play together AGAINST the game which is a nice dynamic so that you win or lose together. One of them is Arkham horror but that's not going to be most peoples cup of tea.
We used to play a lot of Scrabble. But it got boring for my dh (I win 19 out of 20 times). We played cards, but he can count cards in his head, so we stopped playing that. I like Upwords too. When I was pregnant with my ds, we played 3 games a night of Scrabble.
We've got a game called "Stocks and Bonds" he bought at a yard sale as a child that we enjoy. WE've got 7 or 8 different versions of Trivial Pursuit. Sequence is good. We play a six game 'board' of Yahtzee - it's more interesting when it becomes less about luck and more about planning and odds. Battleship is fun once in awhile. We play Farkle too.
The trick with 'classic' games is tweaking the rules to make it more interesting. The problem with that though is when you do play with others, trying to play the 'normal' way is much less interesting.
Now that 'the boy' is older, my dh plays Stratego and Axis and Allies with him - not my thing, but they really enjoy it.
When we have other couples over, we like to play 'Taboo' and always win - the better a couple knows each other, the less chance anyone else has. We usually warn people, but they don't believe us. So after a couple slaughters of 20 to 3, we switch up the partners. We're 'think outside the box' people.
We have 'Battle of the Sexes' but the one time we played that with my MIL, FIL and BIL, we came close to blows, no one was happy and we all went to bed early and upset.
I have always enjoyed Canasta, Bridge, and Poker. Maybe do a Vegas night...21, Poker, Craps, Roulette...and there is always "Bunco"! Who remembers those bunco parties? Am I old or what?!
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