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8 Old Board Games That are Still Good

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Some of the best parts of life have to be playing a board game with your family or friends. So take a seat and let the nostalgia flow over you like the force.

Who can forget about the classic game of strategy that is Connect Four. This is the game that took checkers to the next level.

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Mahjong

How could so many little tiles be so much fun? Mahjong, as many of you may not know, was not originally a game to play on Windows. This game was developed quite some time ago by an angry dominoes player.

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That’s odd, I don’t remember Rhianna being in the game Battleship. The way games progress over the years, I guess.

I have been corrected and that last image was not from the game but the wildly successful movie of the same name. This game gave you pegs and ships, now destroy something.


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