9 best board games

Christmas is the time to dust off your favourite board games and challenge friends and relations to a good old-fashioned game of Monopoly or Cluedo. Forget video games like Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, board games are having a resurgence, fuelled by board game cafés like Draughts in London’s Hackney and Waterloo and Thirsty Meeples in Oxford. Here is our selection of board games new and old for the whole family to play during the festive season. They require varying amounts of skill but there’s something here for everyone. We’re secretly hoping to see the return of a vintage 1970s board game called Exploration, where players had to mount successful missions to far-flung places and return to base in one piece. How does the current crop of games match up? Scrabble 70th Anniversary Edition: £25.99, Amazon Age: 10+ Players: 2-4 Scrabble was invented in 1938 by American architect Alfred Butts, who decided the value of each tile by measuring how frequently each letter appeared on the front page of The New York Times. To celebrate the game’s 70th anniversary this year there’s a stylish new edition, complete with a chic black and gold board and black tiles embossed… Read full this story

9 best board games have 311 words, post on www.independent.co.uk at November 21, 2018. This is cached page on CuBird. If you want remove this page, please contact us.