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Board Games - A Christmas favourite

By Andrew Hawnt

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Board games tend to flood the market around Christmas time, or do they? They're always there, but people tend to buy them much more at Christmas as they make ideal gifts for friends and family, but why are they seen as such reliable gifts? The answer lies in the simple fact that board games can be enjoyed again and again, sometimes for years on end. A couple of examples come from my own childhood, actually.

My grandparents had a couple of board games that would come off the shelf on rainy days or when my childhood self had exhausted the other options for fun while visiting them, and those board games had been used by my father and uncle when they too were children.

That's the beauty of board games and the reason they stick around for so long in homes around the world- once bought, they can be enjoyed literally for decades. Incidentally, those games were the classic Mastermind game and a copy of Scrabble, both of which had stood the test of time through string game play and concepts that hadn't aged.

This is also why games such as Trivial Pursuits and Monopoly remain so popular with families as Christmas gifts as well as treats on birthdays and so on. The game-play may have evolved a little over the years, and in the case of Trivial Pursuit the questions change regularly, but it is their basic concepts that have kept them alive in the hearts and minds of people everywhere, who will no doubt introduce their own children and grandchildren to them when the time comes.

There are some wonderful board games on the market for Christmas this year, many of which have the potential to become just as beloved as those two games my grandparents would play regularly with me. There are games to suit all tastes and interests, including games based on movie properties, as in the case of the New Moon board game based on the second film in the Twilight Saga, along with many others besides.

There is a great new take on the classic Monopoly game in the shape of Monopoly City Edition, along with titles such as the Bananagrams game, Quirkle, Quiddler, Apples to Apples, The Settlers of Catan, Pictureka and more. Some of these games have the potential to be modern classics, just going to show how much board games are a part of our culture even now in the modern age.

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