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Have Fun with Board Game

Who hasn’t enjoyed spending a few hours playing board games with friends or family? Not only do board games provide a lot of entertainment but they also allow you to spend quality time with others. The next time you are sitting around watching the television with your friends or family, why not turn off the tube and turn up the fun with a board game?

Monopoly and Scrabble
Monopoly and Scrabble are undoubtedly two of the most popular board games today. Both games were invented during the Great Depression as a way for unemployed people to pass the time.

Alfred Ward Butts, an unemployed architect from Poughkeepsie, New York, was passionate about games and words. In 1931, he started developing a new game. In 1948, after refinements and changes to the game, Butts introduced Scrabble to the public. Today, Scrabble is played in 121 countries with more than 100 million Scrabble sets sold.

Charles B. Darrow of Germantown, Penn., invented Monopoly in 1934. After being rejected by Parker Brothers, Darrow sold handmade sets of the game that soon became a hit with the public. Parker Brothers then reconsidered, and the rest is history. More than 200 million Monopoly sets have been sold worldwide. Interestingly, the longest Monopoly game ever played lasted 70 days.

Today, a number of versions of Monopoly pepper the game market. For example, many tourist locales create their own versions of Monopoly based on their own towns and attractions.

More recently, fun-loving inventors have developed board games such as Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary.

Finding the Right Board Game
With all the board games available today, finding the right one for you and your friends and family can be overwhelming. Why not give some of these favorites a try?

• Clue: In this board game, players try to solve a murder while taking on the role of suspects. This board game that requires three players is fun for both adults and children.
  
  
• Risk: In this classic board game, players attempt to take over every country in the world. Many adults who grew up playing this game now enjoy playing it with their children.
  
  
• Life: In this board game, players spin a wheel and then make decisions to see where the road of life will take them.
  
  
• Candy Land: Who doesn’t remember playing Candy Land as a child? Suggested for ages three to six, this board games has players compete to see who can make it to the end of the colorful, treat-filled trail first.

Plan Board Game Night
If you are a board game lover but don't play often, take the initiative and plan an evening of fun and games with your family or friends. Inviting people over to play board games is an inexpensive evening that is almost guaranteed to be fun.

If you can’t find anyone to play board games with you, check out your local parks or community center to find like-minded competitors.