![]() ![]() These adaptations lack some of the social aspects of board games but also have some distinct advantages: No need to set up or tear down, easy to save or pause games in progress, and in many cases, the adaptation enforces rules and tracks score. Today, it’s quite easy to have a virtual board game night either using an emulator or a publisher-produced application. Digital adaptations of board games have already existed for around a decade but didn’t have nearly the popularity they do now. Like so many things during the pandemic, board games began to surge online. So for the better part of a year, there was plenty of time for board games but board game nights were out of the question. On the one hand, we (generally speaking) have more free time and spend more time at home than we used to, but on the other hand, it’s much riskier to physically interact with people outside our households. The pandemic is a strange era for board games. ![]()
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