5 classic board games you can play on your phone
Remember family game night? You’d sit around the kitchen table, grab a brightly colored piece of cardboard, pick your favorite piece, and inevitably get way too competitive over how grandma ended up with all the money.
You can bring that board-flipping fun back, using the technology you have sitting in your pocket — your smartphone.
Not every board game has made its way to the digital world, but we’re willing to bet some of your favorites have. The best part? You can play them with friends and family, even from afar.
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The Game of Life
The Game of Life was one of the first American board games, invented in 1860 to keep Civil War soldiers entertained. Many Americans grew up with this staple of family game night and now it’s back as an app on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
While gameplay is basically the same as it has always been, the app allows you to move much faster. A game that traditionally could have taken hours can now be played in minutes.
If you don’t know how this game works or simply don’t remember, the objective is to move through the trials and tribulations of life and make it to the end before the other players — and with the most money. You start down the same path as everyone else and make life-changing decisions, so every game is different.
The Game of Life app costs $2.99 on Apple and Android devices.
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As you face seclusion in your home for the next few weeks, finding enough activities to keep yourself and family busy can be quite a challenge. Thankfully, the internet is jam-packed with a world of ideas.
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