Sometimes, I'll still play the games they are calling Dots and Boxes. I frequently have a pad of graph paper with me and will even encourage strangers* to play with me.
Sometimes the missus and I will play a few matches. Though they are adults, I'll sometimes get my kids to play it with me, when they visit.
You can even play it with more than two people. When you do it with three other people, on a whole sheet of graph paper, it starts to make for some interesting commentary and labored attempts at stategy.
If you want to change it up a little, you can play with three other people and play as partners. I imagine you could do that with six or eight people, but I've never tried it.
Anyhow, just because we have newer devices and ways to entertain ourselves doesn't mean we can't enjoy the simpler things from our youth. Sometimes, I even read dead tree books. The old stuff is still fun.
* Where I retired, I don't have much in the way of strangers. We usually go out to brunch on Sundays and I'll frequently purloin someone's child, stuff them with ice cream, and play a game of this, or some rounds of Tic-Tac-Toe, or hangman. It is one of the perks of living in a very rural area.
I still have some of my graph paper sheets from uni lectures with Dots and Boxes on (to be honest, I kept them over some of my old notes...). Those memories were brilliant, stealing a few seconds across a row at a lecture theatre to play was one of the things I actually look back fondly of the time.
I really do recommend people take a break and go do some of those things they did as children. Go skip rocks, play tic tac toe for hours, and climb a tree.
It helps ground me, and who doesn't like catching frogs? All those sort of things make for a great day moment without needing to be in a rush, connected, or obligated.
Sometimes the missus and I will play a few matches. Though they are adults, I'll sometimes get my kids to play it with me, when they visit.
You can even play it with more than two people. When you do it with three other people, on a whole sheet of graph paper, it starts to make for some interesting commentary and labored attempts at stategy.
If you want to change it up a little, you can play with three other people and play as partners. I imagine you could do that with six or eight people, but I've never tried it.
Anyhow, just because we have newer devices and ways to entertain ourselves doesn't mean we can't enjoy the simpler things from our youth. Sometimes, I even read dead tree books. The old stuff is still fun.
* Where I retired, I don't have much in the way of strangers. We usually go out to brunch on Sundays and I'll frequently purloin someone's child, stuff them with ice cream, and play a game of this, or some rounds of Tic-Tac-Toe, or hangman. It is one of the perks of living in a very rural area.