Along with the push to get families back around the dinner table is a need for families and friends to gather and play games. Manufacturers of traditional games have seen that need and updated designs or produced new games that bring shared fun back into families’ recreational time. Give a game as a family gift this year and encourage “together time” once again. Turn off the computer and TV and let the games begin. With approximately 100 different Monopoly games on the market, there is a version for nearly any interest. The Beatles Collector’s Edition features every album the Beatles released as the properties. Boardwalk is Apple Studios and Park Place is Abbey Road Studios. The railroads are concert tickets, Community Chest is Beatlemania and the tokens are the walrus, sun, raccoon, hammer and octopus-all images from their songs.
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Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition takes players to cities in six continents before even passing Go. Players are given their own digital banking device and a Monopoly credit card. Each game has six randomly selected game pieces that are based on items related to the continents. Skyscrapers (in North America) or pyramids (in Africa) are
used instead of hotels. Chance and Community cards include facts about the world plus the game comes with a deal button for added excitement. The redesigned Clue has updated the familiar characters: Miss Scarlet is now Kasandra Scarlet, a tabloid actress; Mr. Green is Jacob Green, an African American with all the “ins”; Colonel Mustard is Jack Mustard, a former football player; and Professor Plum is Victor Plum, a billionaire video game designer. The other two characters are Eleanor Peacock and Diane White. Intrigue and Rumor cards add clues and eliminate players. The nine weapons (instead of six) are the candlestick, rope, knife, trophy, poison, pistol, ax, baseball bat and dumbbell. The mansion’s rooms now include a guesthouse, spa and theater. In another Clue version, the Harry Potter Edition takes players to Hogwarts where a student has vanished and it’s up to the players to solve the case. Posing as Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville or Ginny, players attempt to discover who did it, where they did it and what item or spell was used. The board comes with wheels that move to reveal secret passages, hidden staircases and the dark mark. The Godfather Trivia Game contains 900 questions about all three films. The Legends of Wrestling Uno features 112 custom cards featuring WWE wrestlers such as the Junkyard Dog, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and “Rowd” Roddy Piper. In the Beat the Parents Family Trivia game, questions are tailored toward each other’s generation. The Super Scrabble Deluxe Edition has nearly twice as many spaces, points and tiles for twice the challenge and fun. The Mickey Mouse Tic-Tac-Toe and Checkers Combo Tin contains black and white Mickey-shaped checkers in a collector’s tin with Mickey-shaped handle holds. With the Man Bites Dog card game, players are dealt cards (106 headline cards plus three exclusive cards) with words on them, each with a point value. Each player constructs a sentence using words that have the most point value. The winner is the first to reach 500 points. Games, games, games. There are so many options on the shelves and so many family and friend memories waiting to be made. Maybe this is the year to renew fun around your family’s table. BY RONDA ADDY
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