Most people who say they hate board games have played one long game with one very competitive relative. These five are short, quick and kind to beginners.
Something to draw
A game where everybody draws at once and guesses at once. Nobody waits for a turn, and being bad at drawing is half the fun.
Something to build
A tile game where you lay a little landscape in front of you. It takes ten minutes to learn and twenty to play, and nobody can attack what you made.
Something to bluff
A card game of six players, hidden roles and loud accusations. It is over in fifteen minutes, so the loser can ask for a rematch straight away.
Something to share
A cooperative game where the table plays together against the board. Everybody wins or everybody loses, which ends a great many arguments before they start.
Something silly
Stacking wooden animals on a wobbly boat. No rules to speak of, and the noise when it falls is the best sound in the café.
Ask a guru for any of them by what they are, not by name. That is the game we will find for you.
