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 Cheaters Edition has not long been released.

The Really Nasty Horseracing Game as mentioned up thread is evil - I've seen a physical fight over that one.

The London Underground Game sounds benign but is rage inducing.

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

I HATE board games.

Scattegories

I'll see you all Risk, and raise you Diplomacy For extra family warfare points, make sure to include some players old enough to bring up WW2 regularly and likely to band together to shaft whoever is unlucky enough to be issued with Germany. It also takes long enough to ensure that everyone is either (a) pissed or (b) hangry (or both) long before the end.

Obama Llama

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You can get a personalisable(?) monopoly kit...

Santorini. Deceptively easy but really, really frustrating if played well.

Fuck. This thread just made me lose the game

Tribal what now ??????

If you’re playing against my brother, Ludo. I ask you, how can Ludo be rage inducing? My lovely, normally mild mannered gentle brother CANNOT bear to lose at Ludo. We haven’t played it for nearly two decades as a result

Game of Life. It has to the dullest, longest game ever invented. I managed to remove it from the house once to donate to the charity shop but then my DH thought it was hilarious to buy me another for Christmas

Trivial persuits. Especially if it's the first edition. I'm 34 and can't relate to the majority of the questions. Alot of it like entertainment etc is before my time so deffo that!

I nominate the Mystery at Hogwarts board game.
It's gripping, infuriating and dull all at once.

The train game

Definitely code words! It's played in teams and if you and your DH know how each other thinks then you'd have the advantage... Saw jungle speed mentioned above and I love that too.

Diplomacy.

I've only managed to play it once where we were all still friends at the end. It's cutthroat.

I second Colditz - l broke my brother's nose during a sharp exchange of views over the Do or Die rule ... Risk is always good for a bit of stroppage and Mah Jong, played with unlimited chows, never fails to have either DP or DS2 flouncing out in a huff ( l'm Queen Of Chows - many a lovely hand has been ruined by my fast and dirty Jonging Also Kingmaker - it caused so many rows in the course of one holiday we swore never to play it again!

Settlers of Catan and Monopoly.

I will NOT play with my husband because he cannot bear to lose. Apparently when DH was a child his father would be an incredibly poor winner, and that has soured him on losing for life.

Right, nasty bastard horse game is being added to the list. I have to be careful not to get in too deep or I could lose sight of what's important here (me winning and NOT being sucked into my own rage inducing plot)

user I've played Game of Life in German. It's even duller when it's in your 3rd language.

Thanks Tripping. 😠 DD's just lost the game too. 😂

Frustration. It does exactly what it says on the tin.
(DM once ended up throwing the board across the room in a hissy fit it was hilarious

Risk and/or Munchkin

Diplomacy.

The game is a bit slow, so it may take some time to come to fruition. But duplicity, lying and backstabbing is an absolute requisite of the game.

We played an online version at work, things have never been the same since.

Diplomacy if you can still get it, it's a far more sophisticated version of Risk, we've played it many times but it never ends. It's about the First World War and it has interesting consequences that reflect the actual events. It's hard work but might do the trick!