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Please Don’t Ask Me to Play Your Board Game

Please Don’t Ask Me to Play Your Board Game

Please Don’t Ask Me to Play Your Board Game

By Gloria Liu

April 11, 2023

Originally Published Here

Summary

Several years ago, I moved to a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, and a co-worker invited me over for a classic social tradition: a game night.

An alarmingly complex game was first explained-something about a ghost, or a haunting-and then repeated, upon my request.

Although these people kindly became my friends anyway, I was never invited back to another game night.

"We just know you're not really a game person," one of them later told me, eyes sliding sideward.

Not being a game person nowadays can make one feel like an exception.

Board games, which in 2021 were a $13.4 billion global market, are surging in popularity.

Still, I know others like me shudder when they hear the chipper proposition "You guys want to play a game?" One of them is my friend Whitney, whom I recently spotted grimacing when our pals brought out a word-guessing game called Just One after dinner.

Reference

Liu, G. (2023, April 11). Please don’t ask me to play your board game. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/04/board-games-bonding-game-night/673670/