After books and vinyl, board games make a comeback
by Mason Boycott-Owen from Technology | The Guardian on (#3Q2JP)
Tabletop games join trend for 'the real thing' over digital - and for having fun with other people
Forget Candy Crush, Fifa and Call of Duty - millennials are putting down their Xbox controllers and smartphones and picking up their dice as they embrace games their parents and grandparents used to love.
More and more people are exchanging marathon gaming sessions alone in a darkened room for the social fun of board games. With bars and cafes such as Thirsty Meeples in Oxford, and Draughts in London having a library of more than 800 games catering for the "cocktails and Cluedo" set, board games - as with colouring books - are no longer just Christmas presents for children.
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