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?

Another vote for cards against humanity. [evil cackle]

Scrabble always manages to cause a fight in my family

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.

Tension
Its like tenable on tv. But out of the mlilon things you could answer you.only get credit for the ones on the card. So you could name 20 things yet only get 4 points 😀😀
Very frustrating but hilarious too.

Oh and you cant beat 'Frustration'. Its all the luck of the dice we love it. You can be streaks ahead and still not win if you dont get the right number up.

UNO - yes. 6yo DS tried to introduce a rule that you could go round stacking your +2 cards until some poor sod gets stuck picking up 12 cards. Git.

I hate monopoly should be renamed monotonous! Pictureka is quite funny cos you have to stare at the board until you are the first to first to find the image..

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

This sounds promising

Frustration !!

I was going to say Monopoly.
Frustration. Scramble.
There is a Catchphrase game.

Catan is fun. If you want to fall out with your own team, try Articulate - they can get very cross with you for not explaining something in a way they would have understood. Pass the Bomb is amusing and can provoke arguments over whether it was passed on in time, or exploded in the other person's hands... 221b Baker Street is also amusing. You could be Sheldonesque and try Flags of the World and memorise all the flags in advance?

Monopoly.

Yahtzee caused an all out family war with ex's family.

With bil being all smug thinking he was winning the whole time only for sil to yahtzee his was with a massive FUCK YOU

Hit the hat game always reduces my family to hysterical giggling - runs the risk of violence though!

Idaho it's fairly straightforward, but essentially depends on the throw of the dice and whether or not you choose to destroy someone else. Best played with siblings. It also has the potential to go on for HOURS, just to keep the fires of injustice fuelled, as the aggressor says 'What? I had to move!' thus neatly avoiding any suggestion you'd deliberately targeted their counters youtotallydid

Frustration, always one to get the rage going. Catan, exploding kittens.

Frustration was banned in our house, it got very nasty with pressing the popper down.. I've since seen that they seem to have replaced the popper in the newer version which doesn't seem as much fun !

I agree win Uno!

Pictionary.

After your team member has made several incorrect guesses just say yes to the next one (within reason). Works for ages until your bastard cousins realise you and your brother are doing this and deny you victory.

Or articulate. Police that egg timer like a bastard. Do not give them an extra millisecond and scream “stop!” At the top of your voice so even if they were guessing the right answer just as the last grain of sand drops nobody can hear it.

We have one called Camel Cup which is a great combination of tactics, betting and pure chance...

The Hat Game.

I have no idea what it's really called, but it causes utter meltdowns amongst a group of my friends. So much so that certain people are banned from playing it.

Operation, practice your steady hand and have lots of distracting insults And jokes ready for their try.

Dobble has been a hit here because it can be played by all ages. You have to have a quick eye, remember what the symbols are called and there are several variations of the game. It's the quick and nasty Sunday afternoon game and we're considering getting another set so that there are more cards.

UNO with random rules made up as DD goes around and monopoly have been severely restricted due to the blatant cheating

"There was one years ago, in the 80s, which used to cause divorces. It was based on kind of "what would you do?" scenarios." See my link I think that's the game you are talking about!

Scruples - but actually it's not about that it's about who's good in a debate!

Oh, it's really called the Hat Game! www.activityvillage.co.uk/the-hat-game

The Really Nasty Horse Racing Game really is very nasty, in the best possible way!