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Watch Out! Longest Family Board Games Ever

Posted by Katherine Stone on November 19th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
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Ever gotten stuck playing an unending board game?

Children love board games, and companies like Hasbro have capitalized on this by encouraging parents to play board games with the kids for some quality together time.  Family game night, anyone?

There are some games, however, that parents might want to watch out for. Play these, and you could get lost inside the space-time continuum and never leave. Unless you are willing to give up significant chunks of time to a board game, you might want to watch out for these five …

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Monopoly
It's estimated that Monopoly takes a minimum of 90 minutes to play, and that's if you know what you're doing. Hasbro says the longest game of Monopoly ever played lasted 1,680 hours. That's about what it feels like to me every time we play.

 

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2 Comments

Hah! Our group of friends has recently taken up playing Settlers of Catan because it takes significantly less time to finish than our other favorite game, Arkham Horror. A good game of Arkham will take about 15 minutes to decide which expansions to play with, 30-40 minutes to set up the board and (conservatively) 3-4 hours of playtime after that…then another 30 minutes to clean everything up and put it away.

Becky commented on Nov 21 11 at 10:30 am

I don’t remember, EVER, finishing a Monopoly game session.

Rosana commented on Nov 21 11 at 10:40 am

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