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?

Cranium
Cards against humanity

I fuckin hate cranium as I lose at it every time. Bastard game got lost.

Linkee is a big favourite in our house

If you want to read the questions for Triv first, charity shops often sell it cheap just saying

I have seen a balloon modelling kit provoke fierce competition, it was unexpected but funny - some people are just naturally competitive whether it's a board game or trying to make a hat out of a balloon.

There was one years ago, in the 80s, which used to cause divorces. It was based on kind of "what would you do?" scenarios.

SerenDippy Gonna pretend my typo was on purpose now!

Is settlers of Catan the one where you have to build yourself a house/a business and trade with other people. It's a miserable game, I tried to get some wood to build a shack and someone who,will be nameless , told me they had somehow acquired all wood rights and I owed them all my chickens , or something. I was devastated. It's definitely a game where you need to mug up on the rules as it's possible to completely destroy innocent players who just think you are spending an hour playing a fun game.

Definitely learn the answers to trivial pursuit or family fortune.

PIT

The card game based on the stock exchange

Scrabble was always good for a row in our house....

Poleconomy always causes world war 3 in my house
Therapy can cause conflict too

Come on everyone! We need a game that op and her DH can cheat at to ensure a humiliating slaughter!

If you’re swearers and are planning to play after a few drinks Fuck The Game may not break up a family but all of you will have nervous breakdowns.

Couples teams Pictionary.

Years ago there was a game called scruples, I always won.......cos I had none lol

Banagrams.

Like scrabble only way more competitive and whoever is in the lead gets to constantly should 'peel' which pisses everyone off.

The only time my lovely, gentle father has ever told be to 'JUST FUCK OFF AND SHUT UP' [BLUSH]

[GRIN] [GRIN] [GRIN]
Can you tell he lost?

Game off life- especially if they make choices opposite to what they’ve done. Then you can get in passive aggressive digs about oh wish life was different so you- to stir the pot 😂

My BIL brought ticket to ride to Christmas last year and then was all smug when he won (him and SIL have played it loads it was the first time for the rest of us). I wanted to punch him in his stupid face lighthearted (sort of!)

Agreeing with those who suggested Settlers of Catan. Marriages have ended over this game! Mugging up on the rules before hand will mean you can really sabotage other players

It’s definitely Risk you want. I play quite a lot of games and can generally do so with equanimity, but I have NEVER played a game of Risk where nobody has stormed out in genuine rage.

I know Monopoly has already been banned, but I'm proud to say eldest DC has continued the fine family tradition of getting increasingly pissed off before upturning the mid-game board with a swipe of his hand and then storming out of the room.

Trivial Pursuit for the win. I still harbour resentment towards AC & JL* who so BLATANTLY FUCKING CHEATED when I was about to wipe the floor with them. The cow in The Magic Roundabout was ERMINTRUDE, not Daisy, and it was Trivial Pursuit who got it wrong, not me you fuckers. I hope that cheese wedge is still up your nose.

*Not naming names, because one day I will hunt them both down and get them to admit I was right. This was over 25yrs ago. I am playing the long game. Not the Trivial Pursuit game anymore though, obviously.

Scrabble.... with my twelve year old son. He insists that everyone is cheating if they use words bigger than “Cat” or “Bum” and tants.

Ludo is also good for a multigenerational gradual build up of resentment and recrimination.

Honestly? UNO.

I can offer my 7yo as a consultant. She plays with loads of different people, and just collects ‘family rules’. It’s now impossible to play with her, because she insists on integrating so many changes to ‘make it more fun’.

And she doesn’t tell you until you’re just about to win, that actually a Draw 4 at this stage of the game, under a waning moon means you have to swap hands with her, sing a verse of ‘Old Macdonald’ and think of all the blue cards as red.

She thinks the instructions that come with games are merely starting suggestions for the weak of imagination.

Evil genius, here to help

Yes, combine my idea with @SassitudeandSparkle 's - go to charity shop, buy secondhand quiz based game that's still made, learn all the answers then buy a second, shrink wrapped one to give as present. Mwhahaha

Adult size hungry hippos

Really...this is a thing?

I literally just imagined sort of massive, snapping wheeliebins in a circle, lying on their sides with grown adults just angrily slamming the lids down and trying to trap each other inside.

Probably stretching the definition of 'board game evening' a bit .