READY TO PLAY TOMBOLA? OR, MAYBE, SOME DIFFERENT BOARD GAME?

 

 Hi, everyone! Christmas is almost here and I’m so excited! It is one of the most wonderful times of the year. Will you play board games during your Christmas holidays? I think they will be great fun this year too, because in my family Christmas isn’t Christmas without board games! In this post I want to share with you some beautiful games you could play with your family or your friends other than our typical tombola, the most traditional Christmas’ board game for Italian people.

BOARD GAMES FOR ALL TASTES

 

TRIVIAL PURSUIT

If you want a board game which test your knowledge about general culture or one of your favourite sagas or TV-series, Trivial pursuit is for you. The aim of this game is to answer a question about one of the six different subjects and if your answer is right you’ll take the plastic colourful slide. When you finish to take all the pieces, you‘ll try to get back in the place you were at the beginning of the game. There are different editions besides the classic trivial. You can find ones about  Harry Potter, the Lord of the rings, the Big Bang Theory, Friends, and so on.

 

CLUEDO

If you love mystery and testing your logics, you’ll want to try Cluedo. You’ll have to find the killer of a victim,  the murder weapon and the place where he/she was killed. You can do it through the clues of the other players. You can choose your favourite edition: Scooby Doo, Downtown Abbey, the Game of Thrones, the new Ghostbusters III…

                                                                                                

TABOO

In this game you need to help your team understand a word you have chosen, without using the words written in the note. The team which understands most words will win the game. It is a fun game you can play with your family or friends.

SCARABEO

It is a good game to get to know new words. You must use eight letters to compose a longer word and wedge it between the words of the other players on the notice board. The winner is the person who has the higher score in match.

MONOPOLY

It is the most famous board game in the world. It is a game of strategy and economy. You can buy properties, exchange them, build houses and flats and pay or receive money from the bank. There are many new editions, and you can have credit cards instead of the traditional banknotes.

BOARD GAMES WITH CARDS

 

Classic board games for the Christmas’ holidays are games with French and Neapolitan cards or Piacenza cards. There are so many games you can play! scala quaranta, burraco, scopa, briscola, poker, seven and half…. But I want to describe my favourite one, which is not so well- known. Have you heard of … Machiavelli?

MACHIAVELLI

It is a pure logic game to be played with French cards. The aim of the game is to finish your cards. You can also do straight and three of a kind like in scala quaranta, but the difference is that you can change the three of a kind and straight in the table to finish your cards. There are eight cards for each player and you can only take one card or put it on the table, when is your round.

There are also other beautiful games, but the ones I’ve chosen are the ones I usually play with my family.  I have a special bond with them, lots of good memories,  and I hope these games will be fun to play this upcoming Christmas time too. Let’s hope it will be joyful and careless and that we can all spend some relaxing time with our dear despite the pandemic and the need for social distancing.

Giorgia, 3sc