To ask you to tell me how to tear a family apart?

[SerenDippyEggs]

By telling me what board game is the most irritating, rage inducing one you can think of?

My SIL and her boyfriend are the most competitive people I know, and we always play game night with them and it ends in rage (this is LIGHT HEARTED, yes this is all there is to it, no massive back story or counselling needed )

For a gift we want to get them a really bloody frustrating game because we're going to swot up on it first to kick their arses. Yes it's petty and no we don't care

So pleeeeaaaase tell me.. what games make your family go crazy?

Not seen it mentioned yet but what about contraband? Simple to play, but good for a range of ages, and easy to screw people up, particularly when the customs officer ignores blatant smuggling on the part of their oh, and then pounces on the luckless soul they've passed the ruritanian crown jewels brandy, diamond necklace and nylons to. Even worse when their oh then acts as an informant and gets paid for grassing you up.yes dm I'm looking at you...

Just seen a previous posting about Diplomacy, glad we're not the only ones who like it but you need a third option, it goes on til everyone's dead!

Junta. Utterly baffling, really frustrating, usually ends in fisticuffs.

And finally, buy them a 10,000 piece jigsaw and remove one piece first.

Ooooh, now that's a good idea.

I just remembered an old board game my mum bought back in the 70s - Movie Maker

It was a bit like Monopoly in a way, what with collecting cards, etc. I'm now wondering if she still has it.

Also, the site is a board game paradise....

I think risk is the most frustrating. I have never really recovered from one particular game a few years ago and I think I may have some psychological issues as a result
If you want to be really devious (as my family were) you can gang up against them. If you are sneaky enough they might not even notice. If you have an unspoken rule not to attack each other, then you can either attack them from both sides or obviously your borders with each other don't need to be so strong so you can then put more If your soldeirs on attacking them
, you can always occasionally attack each other to hide this fact. Read up on strategy guides beforehand to find the best continents to start in and the best strategies and make a plan for how you will proceed and then fuck SIL and Bf over

My and DP in the early throws of our relationship nearly split after a game of uno. Unlike all the other bfs in the game who were being really kind to their gfs he was absolutely ruthless to me. I am actuqy grateful he treats me as an actual human being rather than a child, but it's still a joke 6 years later within our friends about our near break up

There has also been many an argument over taboo. You can always go for maximum wind up in these games like taboo, articulate, pictionary etc and play on a team with them and just be really crap to wind them up.

Linkee provoked the best stropping ever from my highly competitive little brother who pretty much strops at everything he doesn't win. It didn't exactly end in tears, but I think that it would have been preferable. The best meltdown came when my sister 'stole' his card/cards when he was quite close to winning - made Christmas day 2017 one to remember :-)

@PlayingForKittens - when we play dixit we tend to give one word clues like 'loss' or 'anger' as they can generally fit quite a few cards. DD will often use a line from a song she knows and no one else does. That's always fun. DB is very literal and can't quite work out that simply describing the picture isn't the right approach!

Another family banned from monopoly...my dad’s fault...secret pacts and strategies with his sister :)

Glad it is not just us.

Major row witnesses one NYE with friends playing Mr & Mrs “that was not me...” tumbleweed...

@Spartacunt you're evil! Welcome to my team.

Smartass is fun but gets the ire going too.

cranium. We once played it at a dinner party with another couple and it became excruciatingly clear that DH and I were better at every category than them. I think the wife actually cried at one point

I also remember having a massive bust up in my university house over the ‘big brother’ board game. It came about as one friend admitting confiding a secret in another but wouldn’t tell us what it was. We still bring it up 20 years on and she still won’t tell us!

Bridge - make sure that you don't care if you lose but they want to win. Refuse any dissection of hands.

By the time they get home they'll be divorced.

Scattagories.

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U roll a die to get a letter and have a timer to put answers to questions beginning with that letter .. .....

One question was "name a flower" and the letter was C.

My answer as a 13yr old was CauliFLOWER

We have the Thunderbirds board game - it's co-operative. You all work together to defeat the Hood while dealing with various incidences.

Drive us all potty because we spend ages arguing over how best to make the most of each move so that we can set up 3-4 moves in advance.

Cluedo 2 is also rather good - it's like regular Cluedo but some added twists to make it less predictable.

Heroerealms

Articulate definitely.

Flippy cup is the most frustrating, anger inducing game ever.

I would suggest they play a game of UNO with DS. The rules change on a game by game basis, sometimes inter-game. It has reduced his rule-adhering cousins to tears so many times he’s banned from playing with them.

I am still scarred by childhood crazy golf.

My own DC still argue over a specific battle in Risk. They made up their own rules was never going to end well They are now 22 and 20...

Onefoot I had coppit as a child and bought it recently for dgd!! Great game.
What about Yes No game? Always get one person who's frustrated by it 🤣

Articulate. Known as 'the marriage breaker' in our house - every time we've played it with friends at least one couple has left not speaking to each other, including us!

Cards against humanity because it’s so totally offensive!

Read each card 1st , ensure that you have the urban dictionary meaning and deliver it with the solemnity of a priest, ahh yes, that would be referring to XXXXX.

Risk is the most baffling, complicated and long winded board game ever invented. Guaranteed to bring the most harmonious family to blows.

I bought it one Christmas with the idea we could have a lovely family game session on Christmas Day evening. In my defence I was suffering from an at the time undiagnosed brain tumour so was in a complete fog.

Straight to the charity shop it went in January.

If you do play Diplomacy, make sure the person you don't like is Italy....they tend to get eliminated first and then have to be on tea duty