Wednesday, 27 August 2025

In praise of ….. playing boardgames

My Kerplunk game


Despite living in the era of mobile devices with their multitude of games and numerous consoles, I still play old style board games on a regular basis, but why?

Within the family, we still play Blokus, Top Trumps, Rummikub and Kerplunk on a weekly basis.  It brings us together, and now the children have left home, just me and the wife. Like everything, I play to win and sometimes a human opponent is harder than the highest level CPU one. I do love a mental challenge.  It’s also the satisfaction of setting up the game and putting it away afterwards. 


Regardless, I still play my Sony PSP and the Sony Playstation 3 when I’m on my tod. As a technophile I believed board games will rendered obsolete and made extinct, along with museums, cinemas and hard copy books, but no, still here. 


Do you still play boardgames? Let me know in the comments.


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