In our family, the highlight of cribbage is repeating “Fifteen-two and the rest won’t do” or “Fifteen-four and the rest don’t score” for the hundred millionth time.
My wife and I loved The Queen’s Gambit so much that we dug out the chessboard and started to play – and we haven’t stopped.
Like the OP, we set up by the fireplace with music and drinks and/or weed. We also allow mulligans but only if a queen will be lost. I win 90% of the time because Mrs. A gets careless and lets me fork or skewer pieces, and once she’s down material I can usually break down her position. (Not that I kid myself I’m any kind of player.) But it doesn’t matter – it’s almost always fun.
My wife and I love to play board games. Our favorite ones tend to be cooperative games like Pandemic, Chronicles of Crime, or Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, but we also enjoy competitive ones like 7 Wonders Duel, Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne, and many others. I haven’t counted how many board games we have but I bet it’s upwards of 40 or 50.
Our biggest problem is that we pretty much only have each other to play with which limits some games that are best with multiple players. Our son, sadly, dislikes board games and would much rather play first person shooters online.
Yup. Very good… mini series. My Wife told a friend about us playing chess a lot, and he recommended the Queens’s Gambit. This fellow used to teach chess to middle school kids. Have not played him.
My wife and I play cribbage, chess, and backgammon. She’s better at cribbage, we are equal at backgammon, and I’m better at chess (she’s slowly getting better though). We have small travel sets of all three so we take them on vacations too. I would say she is better at cribbage due to luck, but backgammon has that too so it must be some skill. 