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Casii Dodd's avatar

We play several cooperative games. Some that are a bit involved like Eldritch Horror or Pandemic Legacy. Others pretty quick to pick up. We are fortunate to be within walking distance of a quirky comic book & game store, so they're very patient with my endless questions and to show me how to play. Monopoly is from Satan, I swear. All the cousin fights as kids seemed to originate with a Monopoly game that felt eternal but was all our grandparents had besides cards & dominos.

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Betts's avatar

Massive board game fan here. At 5 my oldest is able to play Carcassonne and sushi go with us - so great to move on to adult games from the kids ones! Grew up in Switzerland and monopoly isn't so dominant there (I'm in the UK now where it is - that and trivial pursuit) so it's always been a family thing for us, including certain card games to play with cousins or grandparents for tradition.

Probably there's a good reason for them, but I find the generic link titles (things like "this is fun" or "this game is great") really frustrating and disruptive - it feels like reading a paragraph with some of the nouns redacted ("Suzy went to this thing to get that.")

Otherwise, love your work - been reading various forms on and off since Sweater Quest.

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