For as long as man has existed, there have been board games.
In fact, archaeologists now think that cavemen invented fire so that they could
play backgammon late into the night. (Also, they would be able to use the fire
to see if dinosaurs were heading towards their caves.)
Nowadays, board games are a fun way to pass the time if
there is a power outage in your neighborhood and you can’t watch TV. They are
great for children and also for college students who want to do something while
pregamming before a night out (a case in which some rules might have to be
modified to allow for alcohol consumption).
One example of a popular board game is Monopoly. Monopoly is
so popular that Hasbro has made roughly 1,000,000 different versions of it. I
do not like Monopoly (not even the SpongeBob version) because it takes too
long to play and I have little patience. Also, people always play Monopoly with
different rules and one person always takes the game way too seriously and
another person always takes the game not seriously at all (me) and might even
try to cheat and take extra fake money (me again). Despite this, after hours
and hours of extensive research, I have determined that Monopoly is not one of
the worst board games ever.
