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
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/