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A Board Game Challenge

What are your five favorite board games?

Wire Editor Newman

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What were your 5 favorite Board Games.

First, who remembers board games? I always found it odd when I was bored, to cheer me up was to play a board game. And then there were some board games, that just honestly, bored me.

Actually, only one board game bored me. It is hard to explain, much less explaining the rules. Safe to say, you were trying to be a real estate mogul, buying, and selling real estate in a large city. What? I’m bored already.

Growing up before computers and any kind of smart phones, one of the best sources of entertainment was a board game. This was quickly followed by card games, dominoes, and in some cases, hide-and-go seek. I loved hide and go seek. The best part was, I would just go.

Let’s play Spy.

There was one game in my neighborhood, we would all play. And this was a neighborhood outside game. All the young people would come out to play. It was a game we would play called “SPY.” Winter, Summer, it did not matter.

Spy had no rules. We had two teams, and one team would chase the other team. We had no boundaries, even the neighbors pitched in. Hello Ms., Smith, have you seen Albert…

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