6 board games I’m playing during the pandemic

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What's keeping me grounded in our current pandemic? Board games, for one. But I'm not reaching for the latest and the greatest at the moment; I've found myself reaching for shorter titles that don't melt my brain, and I've been digging deeper into my collection for those criminally underplayed treasures. In part that's because I've been playing with family rather than a gaming group, but-and perhaps you know the feeling-it's also because I can't concentrate on a two-hour strategy fest when the world feels like it's on fire.

I've enjoyed digging up some older titles during this time, and I've been reminded of how terrific some of them are. When I played Sanssouci with my 13-year old daughter, for instance, we had such a blast that we immediately played it again. And Keltis-what a gorgeous presentation, even if you do have to order it direct from Germany and download an English rules translation from BoardGameGeek.

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