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?

Monopoly. When one goes to the bathroom we have to leave our phone recording. All trust goes out the window.

Re Universal's suggestion of learning the questions to a quiz has reminded me of my Who Wants to Be a Millionaire triumph. It was the chocolate based version of the game & we were playing at my folks one Christmas. DH was asking me the questions and I got the first few right, then realised that with the way the light was coming through the window I could see which answer was on the coloured "correct" background. I gave an amazing performance, using lifelines etc to get to the last question, which after lots of ummming and aahing I got right and scoffed the big £1m bar of chocolate. I confessed later to stop DM from entering me in the quiz for real, so impressed was she by my general knowledge. Oh my God, it was carnage, you'd think I'd sold my soul to the Devil. It still gets brought up about 15 years later. But the chocolate was lovely And I'd do it again

Definitely monopoly. Someone always cries or gets upset over this at Christmas in my family because my elder brother is a cheat

Secret Hitler or The Resistance could be great if you and DH are willing to cheat. Lots of bluffing and all trust goes straight out of the window.

Forbidden Desert is co-operative but if you want to piss off your SIL, make her the meteorologist then you simply spend the entire game telling her not to take her turn so that you draw fewer storm cards.

Another vote for the Really Nasty Horse Racing game

How could I forget?!? JUNGLE SPEED!!!

Playing with university friends saw a smashed table, cuts and grazes, and a black eye - in one evening.

I was going to suggest a game like Trivial Pursuit where, if you had the time and memory, you could memorize as many of the questions and answers as possible, but that was suggested on page 1!

An easier game to do this with is The Logo Board Game. Easier to remember the answers and slightly fewer questions to remember than with Triv. Also quicker to play so you can fit more games in in one sitting, beat them 2 or 3 times in the same time as you could beat them in 1 game of Triv.

@posieperkinandpootle you are a hero.

Board games

Settlers of Catan

Video games
Any Mario Party especially the later ones
Mario Kart
Smash Bros can also be rage inducing

Oh - Articulate! is the Hat Game. But with a board. And presumably less insults ("evil woman, milk snatcher" "your mum?" )and fisticuffs.

Monopoly.... honestly. DD and DH and MIL all refuse to play with me. I always win. I get a bit ruthless.

You can really shaft people with exploding kittens. So much fun.

We played telestrations the other day and dd got hysterical. It's like a written version of Chinese whispers. Everyone has a notepad and draws a word and passes their pad to the left and the next person looks at the picture and writes what they think it is and passes it on. Next person looks at what the previous one wrote and draws again and so on all the way round. When we played a pop star was turned into a king via being a begger and am offering to God. And a handbag became a turnip in glasses.

Scrabble.

My sister and her husband bore the pants off us all by consulting the dictionary every five minutes for half an hour.

New rules - I don't play, but pass down my (entirely arbitrary) judgements as to whether or not a word counts. Far more fun.

Zombie Mall of Horror

Mensch ärgere Dich nicht.

No one will play it with me anymore, partly because I flick the pieces away when I knock them off, and mostly because I'm pretty good at saying: "I need a 6!"(or whatever) and getting it. Drives people mad!

Election is a politics based game, yes. Although you are allocated a party, you don’t use your own political affiliations ...... I’m not sure if it is still made, eBay would be the place to get it.

Trivial Persuit- genius edition. my sister bought the add on pack of questions and memorized all of them to beat me. When I win we flipped over the board and stormed off. She was probably in her 30’s at the time. Monopoly is now banned in my family home due to an incident with all of us after a few Christmas beverages. Pictionary has never ended well.

The Really Nasty Horse Racing game. It is what it says on the box.

Dixit. www.amazon.co.uk/Libellud-200706-Dixit-Board-Game/dp/B001OH9EDW/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dixit&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1538396410&sr=8-1

Its pictures which you put down with a clue and the clue has to be exactly the right level of difficulty so that one person can get it, but not everyone. It is incredibly hard to play it with children, especially if they know the cards.

My brother is a board games whizz, and is banned from Cluedo, Monopoly, Catan, Pandemic, Mysterium and Ticket to Ride. He hates Dixit because he can't do it.

This thread has just cost me 40 quid. Dobble, tension and exploding kittens are winging their way to me!

@MissBartlettsconscience what sort of thing do you say for Dixit? I hate the bloody game but dd always wants to play it and even though we know how to play it we don't know how to play it iykwim.

Pictionary! It always ends in an argument in our house!

Spot the intro! Cd game brings the rage on in this house, so the stereo ends up switched off mid game!!

Monopoly makes me want to murder everyone. Also Phase 10 used to cause the most massive competitive fights between me and my husband. It is maddening. Also fun though.

Risk every time for my family, nothing worked better than that